I have come to believe that a life is shaped less by the accumulation of ordinary days than by the turning points that connect them: a decision, a departure, a relationship beginning or ending.
I tried keeping daily journals before, but the small fragments quickly lost their edges. When I returned to them, I could no longer remember what I felt or why the record mattered.
So I began to wonder whether it would be better to write only when something truly changed. I do not need a ledger of days. I need a map that can remind a future version of me who I was, and why I set out.
I do not want to record every day
Most days leave no visible trace. The moments worth keeping are usually the ones that make us pause, choose, or feel the world shift slightly beneath our feet.
They may seem small at first. Only later, connected together, do they reveal the shape of a story.
What matters is not only what happened, but how it changed me.
A life in chapters
I prefer to think of a life as a book rather than a line. A book has chapters, each with its own subject, people, and tensions. The boundaries are often a choice, a journey, or a farewell.
This changelog is my table of contents. It marks important turns and keeps the thoughts, decisions, and feelings that belonged to them. It is not a résumé for other people. It is a note to my future self: you once thought this; you once came this way.
A map that grows slowly
Waymarks does not need a schedule. Music, journeys, games, relationships, and things I build will leave a trace when they genuinely become landmarks.
I hope the site eventually feels like an unfolded map—not one that tells anyone else where to go, but one that helps me see where I came from and where I changed direction.