Amazon Review of a Bullet Journal

By Jonah Weber

This is a really tricky review for me to write. Before I really dive into the product, I’ll provide some context. When I was a young kid, I was incredibly hyper, not very organized and overall pretty crazy. In more recent years I’ve had somewhat of an awakening. A very intense, minimalist, organizational awakening. I am very particular with most things. Especially my creative organization. I first heard about bullet journals from a romantic interest of mine from a couple years ago. Well, to be totally honest it was not that romantic on my part, I always saw it as more of a friendship with some romantic pressure. I feel bad for not navigating the feelings as soon as I could. I was actually quite frustrated at myself for the months after that friendship ended. “Why couldn’t you just, be honest with yourself?” Was a question I repeated a lot. Slowly, guilt started to really rot my mental health. I’d overthink, blame myself, even self-loath. It took months to realize I wasn’t really in the wrong about much, I’m just human and as humans, we have to figure things out. And not only do we need to navigate our lives and feelings, we need to do it without pressure. This is the tricky thing about bullet journals though. There is such a heavy and suffocating societal pressure around these fucking bulleted journals. And after using one for some time, I gotta say you can really just use lines. Lines are great. With bullets you gotta use rulers and count the dots and line shit up and just buy a normal notebook. This notebook is great quality but it just comes with quite the emotional poll and societal pressure. I’m gonna land at the 3.5 stars.