Why do I journal?
I journal for reasons you might not expect. I keep a diary to document the present so that I can remind myself later that it wasn’t that great. I am a backward-looking thinker; I tend to glamorize and romanticize all that was. So if I record the here and now I can salvage future “here and now”s from a devouring, greedy, and presumably glorious past.
How many of you keep a journal? What are your reasons?
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I like the way you look at it- I love a particular Indigo Girl's lyrics that says something like "every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh"
I write bc it calms me and it is my therapy... and the reasons you say too really xo
That's why you keep a journal, dare I say, that's sort of twisted?! haha
It's the happy memories that I enjoy looking back on, the not so savory times are normally the ones I tend to overlook!
i like it. that's so fascinating.
my journal is in lists. lists of things i love. lists of things that are bothering me. lists of what inspires me. it keeps me going. when i make myself write in complete sentences in my journal, i don't last.
so you definitely didn't call me. anyways, i keep a journal; i glamorize and romanticize it too.............nothngs real anyways blah blah glad to know you are not frozen
I don't keep a journal. But I am wondering why you would post a glass of wine. Just curious.
That's a great way to look at it. I tend to idealize the past as well. Sometimes I just write to vent, and occasionally I write lists.
I guess I keep a journal because I don't want to forget. The good times, the bad times, the excitement. All those emotions and the way I feel get put onto paper/typing and they're forever moments of how I was then.
i used to keep a journal in college, just so i could look back and laugh at everything i did. now i blog for some of the same reasons. i love to remember the good times.
My journal, if you can really call it that, is my little black moleskine tablet where I write down the little things that come to me so I don't forget them and can eventually write about them on the blog later. Maybe I lose something by not WRITING. But maybe I'd lose feeling in my right hand if I wrote all the crap I type...
Ok trying this again. My brain isn't clicked on today. So let's see if THIS comment makes sense this time.
Although I do not keep a journal any longer, when I did it was to calm me and to get those surpressed feelings and thoughts out. :-) The closest thing to a journal I have now is my blog. And even there I'm careful what I say.
Much better. Lol.
i journal to list, remember, draw, paste pictures/images. I always have at least one journal in progress.
My journal is my blog. In it I keep track of happy days and low moments, craft projects, music that makes me cry and the odd poem. I never could get the hang of a paper journal. Blogging is easier, more immediate and the delete button is just great :o)
This is the best reason I have ever come across...I think I journal for the exact same reason, i just never put it in words the way you did...
Found you through Mrs. French's blog.
i've had journals since grade school. i haven't been writing lately though :-( i keep journals so i'll remember the moments, the little details that i know i'll forget as time goes by.
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