The Court Of Curiosity

I don’t think creating is always about the end goal. I get caught up about it and it’s been driving me crazy. I was scrolling Tik Tok today and I saw a post about creating a digital commonplace journal. I’m DEEP in #journaltok, so a post like this pretty much a normal thing for me and I wanted to do it. I kinda got in my head about it though. I already have so many things that I want to do and my “Things To Try” list grows daily. Sometimes I feel like I’m just all over the place and I get overwhelmed.

I don’t feel like it’s always warranted though. I tend to overthink everything and expect perfection from myself so I try to plan and then end up getting stuck in the planning stage and then never end up doing anything because I’m freaking out about how it’s going to turn out and then I get discouraged and give up before I even start.

So, today I created a commonplace notebook. It’s not done but I don’t care about that. I care about the fact that I started something that I found interesting. I created a cover in Canva and imported it to GoodNotes and created a notebook. I played around with fonts and stickers and made something that I was happy with. If I never open that notebook again, I would lose nothing. Not everything that I create has to be a complete…. thing? I don’t know how to better explain it.

Today, I’m proud of a thing that I made. I’m good with that.

I hope you create something that makes you feel good.

Bye.