Diaries, like personal growth, are forever a work in progress

I’VE COME to believe that one of the most valuable aspects of writing is that you can record what was it like to be alive at a certain time and in a certain place. If it all ends tomorrow, at least there’ll be notes.

The first draft of my observations I keep in a notetaking app on my phone, alongside other assorted jottings that most often include my grocery list: There, accounts of half-remembered dreams mingle with personal exhortations to buy coffee beans and toilet roll.

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