21 pages into my latest bullet journal, and I finally picked the theme. For the last few journals since #3 – where #1 was the ‘first’ and #2 the ‘coronavirus’ editions – is give each journal a theme that I then try to live around. #3 was rebuilding, which, failed spectacularly. The only theme to fail that hard since was the last one, the ill-fated ‘boundaries’ edition to keep work and home separate. #4’s ‘enough bull’, #5’s ‘strategic’ and #6’s ‘recovery’ editions were all successful, and in truth #3 and #7 weren’t true failures. I found a way to build that wall for #7, it just took the whole journal and some brutal self admissions in therapy, including Project 4 which is a meta way of separating work and home. No I still can’t tell you what it is. And even #3 eventually succeeded, I just ended up having to rebuild how I journaled from scratch, and prioritized updating the same day from Trello.
So what of #8? Well, Project 4, and a bunch of other stuff looms over head at the moment. To clarify, I’m talking about my own situation; I’m still regretful there isn’t any meaningful action I can do to help in Ukraine, but I’m trying to be realistic there too. And with that in mind, for my own baggage, the theme came to me at last as an olive branch to my own mental health: Que Sera Sera, the pseudo-European phrase that means ‘what will be will be.’ Honestly I’d have called it ‘What will be will be edition’ but it was a bit too long, so I’ll tolerate my basicness in using this phrase for brevity. My goal this journal then is simple: to take the changes on the horizon as they come, and come out with my mental health in tact. At this point, that is a win. I just hope that this journal is seen as a success; I’ve never ‘failed’ back to back themes, so there’s that. There’s also a first time for everything…
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