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I’m Starting Again… Returning to My Journaling Journey There was a time when journaling was a regular part of my life. I would sit with my notebook and write—sometimes about what happened, sometimes about how I felt, and sometimes simply about the thoughts running through my mind. And I loved making it colourful. Every day had a different coloured gel pen. Blue one day. Purple the next. Green, pink, orange… Looking back, I realise those pages did much more than record my days

Last week, a friend called me in tears. "My car has broken down in the middle of the road. Why does this always happen to me?" I could hear the frustration in her voice. She wasn't upset just because of the car. Her mind had already travelled miles ahead. "I'll be late." "The mechanic will overcharge me." "This day is ruined." "Nothing ever goes right for me." Isn't that what most of us do? One small problem arrives, and within seconds our mind writes an entire disaster movie

"The success of a relationship is not determined by the absence of thorns, but by the presence of a flower worth protecting" Today, a simple thought about a rose plant came to my mind. A rose plant is beautiful when there is a flower. But if there are no flowers on it, what do we notice? The thorns. That led me to wonder whether relationships are similar. Is love to a relationship what a flower is to a rose plant? Curious about this idea, I asked ChatGPT if there were any art