Journaling is one of the only ways I know how to express my creativity. It’s a medium that seems halfway between writing and painting. For a while, I’ve been neglecting my journals, mostly because I haven’t been able to print photos and other elements and create the beautiful pages and collages I want. I switched to a digital journal for bullet journaling and daily planning too. But the more I see pictures of aesthetic, pretty journal pages on social media, the more I want to return to my old hobbies.

I know I’m not the only one to finish high school and feel less prepared for university AND for the post-university part that comes afterward. Put a bunch of graduates together in a room and they’ll probably all say the same thing: “what the heck am I supposed to do now?”

In saying that, I think a big part of growing up is that you’re never fully prepared for anything. You’ll never have all the answers at once and you have to go-with-the-flow and collect those answers along the way.