The Middle Part Journal Prompts
Helping you become more aware of your relationship with the media.
I’ve spent the last week or so trying to figure out how I feel about the Barbie movie, trying to find different music to shift my ‘On Repeat’ playlist and watch YouTube videos that will miraculously shift the fog that has settled on my brain.
Every so often, when I’m unable to analyse, or simply not ready to, the personal role that media plays is at the forefront of my mind, yet yesterday, when I changed the bedsheets with no YouTube video playing, and I found it both manageable and quick, straightforward even, I knew I needed to try and slow it down.
In June’s Consumed, I mentioned that I was feeling a shift in regard to my media consumption and that I was excited about it. I’ve still no idea how to articulate this, but it still sits front of mind. As does my aforementioned feelings of the Barbie movie, whether my hair will ever grow out (my hair was cut into a pixie cut late last year, and whilst I don’t regret it, I would like it to just be how it was again please and thank you), and when I should clean my desk and workspace in the ways suggested by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein in Joys at Work.
These issues are not ones which loom large, but they’re a lovely distraction. As is watching people clean their houses in leggings on YouTube, pin things that all look the same on Pinterest and just pick up my phone click on stuff and put it down again.
I’m in full avoidance mode. Text messages are overwhelming, I’d rather not look at my email and the sheets of paper that have lists of what I need to do on them become more and more crumpled as I take them with me everywhere I go, even though I don’t look at them.
Anyway, whilst writing this may be acting as a catharsis for me, I’m not sure how helpful it is for others. To assist people in becoming more aware of their relationship with the media, I have developed a series of questions, the first which are below.
You can tackle these as journal prompts or discuss them with someone else.
If you use them, would love to hear how you go.
