Manifesting through my eyes
In more recent years, the idea of manifestation and speaking your thoughts into existence has become popular. I find this idea intriguing as well as controversial for a few reasons; I feel that manifesting and journaling coincide and long before there was really any social media content revolving around this, I would journal every morning before my zoom classes started my senior year.
I really don’t know where, how, or why I started this habit but I began to journal and really prioritize doing it everyday and reflecting on my previous days and overall behavior. I would do a lot of shadow work and I would essentially analyze my strengths, my weaknesses, and my highs, and lows from several years ago or even a few days ago.
I feel over the past few months, manifesting and this journal “aesthetic” have been coming up on my TikTok “for you page” and my Pinterest feed. This encourages me to speak positively presently and serves as a reminder to journal but it also makes me feel for others, this might just be a trend. I feel through manifesting and journaling, I have become extremely in touch with the Universe and it has almost become a religion to me and through my linguistics and behaviors, I think I have inspired my friends and family to do the same. However, when I see things on social media about this phenomenon, I feel like people are doing and using it for the wrong reasons. This then poses the question in my mind, will manifesting become something people truly inhibit into their daily lives or is it just a trend?