(pen clicking)
(paper fluttering)
(pen clicking)
(paper tearing)
- People have been asking to give them
a little bit of a tour,
so welcome to my journal.
There's absolutely no sense of conscious grammar.
These books are my little home,
a very honest representation
of myself on paper.
So, I'll tell these pages the truth.
This monster keeps all of my secrets.
I honestly did not realize
how many I had
until I had the space just to let them out,
a space to feel emotions
that I was holding back.
I'll write letters,
write stories about strangers,
put secrets inside sealed envelopes,
lipstick stains on the pages,
needle and thread,
pressed flowers,
and when I go to cafes,
I grab napkins and write the story for that day.
(gentle music)
I take little packets of sugar
from everywhere I go,
and I write on the back of them
as if I'm just keeping the sweet memories.
These are the little sentimental ways
I like to remember my day.
Perhaps like me,
you used to journal.
Maybe when when you were on a trip,
and you used to write out those days
when you had more time,
or back in school you used to keep a diary,
or even considered keeping a dream journal.
Let's be honest.
It is hard to keep up with journals.
I was the kind of kid in school
to be writing her own short stories
underneath the essays she had to write in English class
about the book she didn't read.
I had some serious irrelevant
but beautiful math notes,
and alongside it, I would write short stories.
When I left school,
I noticed how hard it was
to keep up my habit.
So that's why I'm making this film,
for me and for you.
If you're thinking that you wanna start journaling,
right here, I challenge you
to a new little habit.
And so, I wanna leave you with a practical set of tips,
things I've learned along the way.
Number one, get a journal and a pen,
something that feels good in your hands.
Number two, be honest with yourself.
It's harder than it looks.
Eventually, start taking your journal along
every time you bring out your phone
or your laptop.
As weird as it is to say,
a book never runs out of battery,
and if you're intimidated by the white pages,
below I'll leave you some prompts and ideas.
Journaling is my front door
into this little world
that is the madness of my mind.
The reason I started journaling
was I started to think about it this way.
In the future when you're older
and you start to forget,
you'll wish you had made more effort
to remember when your mind no longer can.
I honestly don't know what is gonna happen
to all my memories,
how my life is gonna change.
So for my future self,
however lost she may get,
this is my way for her to remember
who she once was.
So I invite you
to discover how you can be an author.
Help the person that you will become
remember who they once were,
and one day,
you'll read your life like a story,
and the way that you want to remember.
Journaling is my form of expression.
What is yours?