Missed a Day for Research in These Foolish Things

Missed a day of my 100 words daily, but that’s okay because I was still working on and thinking about my diary.

Some of you fellow diarists were contacted maybe a year or so ago (I can’t remember now exactly how long ago) about participating in a research study focused on crisis and how people cope with crises via journaling.

Well, I was contacted as well and agreed to let my diary be used for research as my PB was public at the time, and honestly anyone could be studying the damn thing anyway. I was kind of excited about the thought that someone or some group could be looking at my writing and taking a psychological or anthropological interest in it!

Yesterday I had a Zoom call with the researchers, and I’m fascinated!

And yes, I did make my PB friends only, but the researchers are now my friends, ha!

They told me I could write about the studies that they are doing, so I’m comfortable telling you about it. They’ve built graphs for each diarist (there are 40 of us, and I only know of one other diarist who’s part of the research and we have all been writing in this format for 20ish years), and various life events are plotted out and it’s so wild to see the last 20 years of my life graphed out…the ups and the downs. So interesting!

In the end, I hope to be part of several studies. As you may have gathered from my most recent entries, I’m really interested in growing and learning as much as I can about making it through this life as a better person each day.

It’s almost like knowing I’m in The Truman Show…but not exactly!

Anyway, gotta go prep for a meeting now.
GS