Writing is a way you can employ metacognition – gaining awareness of one’s self and one’s behaviours.
Whether the excuses and reasoning you have are valid, or whether they are mere distractions to keep you from tackling the problem. Whether the way you spend your downtime truly reflects your values. Whether the people in your life are a real match for the person you want to be.
It encourages you to reflect on your life from a place where you associate with your ego identity, and then allows you to observe what you wrote from an emotionally detached point of view. So that you can make lasting changes to live your life in a way you genuinely resonate with.