ray648•11d ago

My bullet journal tried to gaslight me into thinking I went to the dentist

Last month I was flipping through my old spreads trying to find a parking spot note I scribbled in, and I saw this whole week in March where I had logged dentist appointments, oil changes, and even a coffee date with a friend from college. The thing is, I never went to the dentist in March, my car hasn't been serviced in like 6 months, and that college friend moved to Oregon 3 years ago. I stared at my own handwriting for way too long trying to figure out if I was losing my mind or if my pen had a mind of its own. Turns out I grabbed the wrong notebook out of my bag - one I started 3 years ago and totally forgot about. So I basically journaled my life from 2022 and then tried to plan my present day around it for a solid week before I caught the mistake. Has anyone else accidentally mixed up old and new bullet journals and had a mini existential crisis over it?

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ivan52211d ago

nah sorry i gotta push back on this one. you basically just grabbed a random old notebook and got confused for a week, that's not a bullet journal gaslighting you, that's you not checking what year it was before writing in it. like i get that it feels weird to see your own handwriting from years ago but that's on you for not labeling your notebooks or at least looking at the dates when you picked it up. your bullet journal didn't do anything wrong, it just sat there being a book from 2022 while you decided to treat it like it was current. honestly sounds like a pretty minor mix up, not really an existential crisis, just a normal mistake that happens when you have multiple notebooks floating around. if anything this is proof that paper journals are way more reliable than digital ones because at least the handwriting doesn't change or lie to you, you just misread the situation.

the_nancy11d ago

Hang on, you're right that the mix up was on them, but you lost me at the handwriting part. Paper journals can definitely mess with you in weird ways. I've dug out old notebooks before and seen my handwriting change over time, like the loops get smaller or the slant shifts. That can feel pretty disorienting, especially if you're not expecting it. So it's not just about misreading a date, the whole physical feel of the thing can throw you off.