so, earlier today i started a journal. i figured my first entry sound be a brief summary of my life...the thoughts and memories just started flowing, and i filled four pages. then i read over it and i was kind of shocked. i didn't realize just how...for lack of a better description, fucked up my life sounds when its all just laid out like that. anyone else ever do that? just lay your life out in front of yourself and examine it? its really kind of therapeutic. and if you have, did it change your perceptions of yourself or give you a renewed outlook on life?
I was thinking last night about starting a journal, but i think its too overrated. I dont think id know where to start anyway, my memories are like a mess on the floor with no particular order.
I started a journal about my life and it just depressed me. haha So now if I feel the need to write...I write fiction. *Edit* I do sometimes make journal entries about the people I care about or people I encounter each day.
Yes, it is therapeutic to write a journal... but not many people have the courage to do this or if they do, they don't have the courage to keep doing it, as they get embarrassed or who knows what else about their thoughts or lives. I've done this, I've kept a journal when I was 14-15, I still have it, and I've looked this year through it a bit. I was surprised to see who I was back then. I get in the mood of writing journal entries now and then. Now I use blogs, it's safer as nobody from the house will ever find them... Sometimes I only realize that my life is boring or depressing, other times I find it great...
I've had periods in my life where everything's been kind of hazy and hard to recall, so I sat down one day and wrote an overview of where I was and what I was doing at different times in my life. nothing like a journal, but it was quite rewarding and insightful.
i dont think i would want to, mainly because of my belief that what happens in the past should stay their and not to be dwelled upon, cause usually that just makes you feel bad or depressed.
I would say its a great idea for a younger person to start and keep a journal but people my age to start and try to input thier past, way too much work!
I don't really keep a journal of daily happenings just books of ideas and rants. I have never attempted to write a life story. It would waste too much paper and time spent remembering could be spent creating new memories.
