The logbook

My logbook still has many empty pages!

It’s difficult to get use to write our feeling, yet many of us have already experienced what it means to keep a diary as a child.

Do you remember the secret diary? I smile thinking that mine had a padlock too, it kept my secrets.

Many pages dedicated to that boy who made my heart beat faster, then pages filled with his name and many I love you...

“What tenderness“.

I read again that diary after a lot of time and I really felt so much tenderness. I realized how much innocence there is in youth and how it makes us full of spontaneity.

For this reason writing on a book what we feel at a particular moment, it’s undoubtedly therapeutic and the benefits are multiple.

When we do this, we get rid of a secret, something deep and intimate, then when it happens… because it will… to read it again, our thoughts will seem so distant, like we didn’t write it.

And the latter is the biggest benefit!

Seeing yourself again, discover our continuous change.

After my first diary, I only had another one that I wrote during a very difficult period of my life, following tips given to me by a psychologist. It was terrible to realize how much pain there was on every single page but it served to throw it out and make me understand how to get out from that situation.

Today I struggle to write this notebook that serves as a logbook, perhaps because I already know that tomorrow when I look at it, I’ll have learned another lesson.

The lesson this pandemic is already letting us, like it or not…

“We must strip ourselves of haste and the superfluous and go back to feel the meaning of life. We must learn to be kinder to this wonderful gift.”

2020/03/26

“Dear Diary, today the news speaks of an improvement of the infection. I’m closed at home, I’m very afraid but I thank heaven for being negative to the virus. Now I’m going to cook something, for a change, I’ll give you an update tomorrow.”