Then let them remain unspoken! Having just finished Boring Notes, I feel invincible! Homework? What’s that? Not doing it!

(Checks schedule… Fine, I’ll write for four or five minutes.)

I finally understand why, even when I have something to say, I sometimes cannot bring myself to start writing: there are simply more convenient ways to make time disappear.

Give me a phone and an hour, and whatever I meant to write will slowly blow away like marks in the sand, never to be seen again.

But things are different now. My phone was confiscated I have decided to focus on my studies. And right now, something inside me says I should stop watching videos and slacking off. So, after weighing the matter very carefully, I picked up my pen.

After Apple updated Notes, I could finally give all my old entries titles and file them neatly away (and then collapse the list while watching my computer visibly slow down). Now, looking at that evenly spaced sequence of titles stretching down the screen, I write these words. To the future me who will one day read them:

Whatever happens, do not give up recording your life. Even if you have to steal a moment from the middle of a busy day, pick up your pen—to record, to release, to create.

Five minutes are up.