Meeeeep, so I've been journaling for a while as of late! I have done so a little back when I was in elementary school and got one of those Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself books, then continued in some notebooks after I ran out of pages in the diary section, but I picked it back up after taking a short college class during the summer about journaling. (Everyone has to take a semester of a short summer college class to graduate, some of the classes involve long-distance travelling and a lot of them are generally engaging/fun dives into various topics.) Alongside reading a published journal, we kept up with a sketch, bullet, and regular journal throughout our days, occasionally taking field trips and journaling "in the moment" to see how it affected our writing. The class was pretty fun! (I think it was also the catalyst to me getting into pinball, but that's a story for another possstttt...)
Then afterwards, for the heck of it, I continued journaling because I've had thoughts of self reflection/improvement these past few years, plus it feels nice to generate memories of some of the days that go by. I got close to finishing the first journal, so I purchased a second. Then I got close to finishing that one too, so I purchased a third. I think you can see where I'm headed next in the future... ;u;
I admit that I've either made late entries or just flat out skipped days and writing about them (despite my urge to not let the days fade away...but honestly they start piling up and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAA), but I've still been going! Sometimes I wonder why though. Either I need to change my priorities or writing style while making entries or there's too much to write about sometimes, but this stuff can feel sorta time-consuming! (Guess it doesn't help that college is already time-consuming too while currently enrolled, meep.) Am I internally trying to make my professor for my summer journaling class happy by continuing? Who...are these entries for? Are these mainly for myself to look back at when half of the time, I feel preoccupied with other stuffs and don't have time to look, let alone reflect on the past?
Okay meeeeep, I don't actually have heavy downer mentality with journaling, or I don't mean to, heheh! It's really been nice for the reasons mentioned previously (remembering very good days especially is awesome), plus it kinda helps me "ground" myself, so to speak. If I'm feeling overwhelmed, stressed, etc., journaling's a nice escape into a more neutral state. I'm glad I've picked this up again and I hope to continue making memories~
And now I'm off to make an entry in my current journal about making this cohost post about my journalsssssssss
