If you care about your friends, write it down

It's been a month now of writing (almost) every day and with it has come some interesting, if rather subtle, changes. Almost a month ago I had come across Herman's post on Active Recall and that kind of kicked off a secondary reason to journal that I think I'd been hoping for: utilising a neat trick to improve my memory; as journaling for journaling's hadn't quite become a settled necessity (yet). A quick refresher: studies show that reading something once and then writing whatever you remember down on a piece of paper (or I hope on a computer), shows to be an effective way of remembering things. So my goal was to incorporate this into my daily writing to give me something external to document that for me, makes the task more concrete and required. I'm lax to push myself to do some things unless there's outside pressure. So I did! I have been writing daily in two parts: Reflecting on my day, documenting things that I noticed or need to dig deeper about: emotional, physical, spiritual…