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How Does Diary Of A Bad Thinking End?

2026-06-14 05:39:27

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Olivia

I ended up feeling sort of satisfied and sort of sad at the end of ‘Diary of a Bad Thinking’. After all of that spinning and disastrous behaving, the protagonist finally comes to a sort of clarity. The entire last few pages of the book are of the protagonist sitting in his apartment, staring up at the ceiling of his apartment, and it’s all this weight lifting off of him. The only reason I would even call it hopeful is because it’s so uneventful. The protagonist hasn’t somehow fixed himself, he’s just stopped running from himself, and that’s sort of exhausting.

I loved that there was no redemption of the protagonist. The ending was very real life in that it didn’t give the protagonist a way to ‘fix’ himself. He just kind of stopped running. And the ending was very sweet in that it acknowledged that progress wouldn’t be linear. The last line of the book was, “I guess tomorrow’s another day to screw up less.” Ugh, it was so bleak but somehow comforting?

2026-06-15

Brady

This honesty was kind of amazing. This protagonist does not get better. He does not find love. There is no cure for his thoughts or any of that. He just stops having them at some point. The last few entries of the diary are kind of light read. Not because everything is okay with the protagonist. Just because he has stopped pretending to have all the answers to everything. The last line of the book is something like “I’m tired of fighting myself.” Not the kind of line that would leave you feeling triumphant or something. But real. And kind of wonderful.

2026-06-16

Grace

There’s no huge confrontation or realization, just the diary tapering off slowly as the protagonist of ‘Diary of a Bad Thinking’ more and more gradually disengages from his thoughts. He just runs out of energy to continue. In the end, he barely manages to scribble out a short paragraph to serve as his final entry. In a typical novel, such a low-key conclusion would be far from satisfactory, but here it’s genuinely and thoroughly brilliant, precisely and cleverly capturing the total, complete and utter exhaustion of reality. Which is to say, you rarely ‘win’ against your thoughts. Most often, you just switch off.

2026-06-17

Victor

This ending keeps revealing new things to me each time I read it. The story does not have a traditional ‘arc’ but the diary itself is the climax. The beginning of the diary is all scribbly and rambling in seemingly unrelated tangents but by the end of the diary it has grown to become sparse almost minimalist. Writing down all the terrible things this person had done to themselves seems to have purged them of their poison. There’s a change in perspective too and that’s that the protagonist starts to question his own stories rather than blindly believing them. And then there’s the last page of the diary with this haunting line: ‘Maybe I’m not the villain here.’ Nothing more is said on the matter and it’s left for the reader to ponder.

2026-06-19

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