Hopkins

As I continued to study, I found this sentence in Hopkins' biography; "Hopkins began his time in Oxford as a keen socialite and prolific poet, but he seemed to have alarmed himself with the changes in his behaviour that resulted, and he became more studious and began recording his sins in his diary."
I'm not sure if this practice of recording your sins is a good habit or a bad one. On the one hand, recording your sins would help you to keep Christ's sacrifice and love in perspective as well as your own fallen state. At the same time though, I think that recording your sins might cause depression and a kind of hopelessness. Hmm... just thoughts...