Do you keep a journal?

[PacificBlue]

If yes, how long have you been doing so? Do you find it helpful? What if someone were to find and read your journal, how would you react?

 

[KillerMuffin]

Yep, since forever, it's helpful beyond measure, and it wouldn't bother me, it's a writer's journal so it's mostly character sketches, practice at getting the most out of a setting in the least amount of words, and really, I mean reaaaaaaally, bad poetry.

Do you?

 

[Basia]

I do... When I was seven I was having some deep problems. I'm still not over what happened to me, but writing has really helped.. I've been recently going back and readong what I wrote those eleven years ago.. I must say I was an odd child back then.

 

[Mensa]

Cardinal rule

Never put it in writing!

 

[PacificBlue]

I've kept journals twice in my life.

The first one was right after high school and before college. I needed someway to purge what was going on inside my brain without having to tell another human being what I was really thinking. I burned those pages after only a few months and quit journaling because I was afraid someone would find them and be shocked at what they read.

The second time was in college for a psychology class on stress. I figured with so many students my Professor would just thumb through mine to see if I had done what he had asked and I'd get my credits. Wrong! He read every word and wrote comments to boot on almost every page!

Present day...I keep coming back to the concept of journaling only because I find it easier somewhat than having to sit and tell someone what I'm thinking. My fear is still the same...what if someone finds it and is shocked at what's really going on inside my brain.

 

[lilfrk]

Sometimes I keep a journal. Usually at really rough periods in my life. When I was a teenager living in a not so stable environment I kept one faithfully every single day. Some days I wrote in it more than once. In the end it was taken and used as evidence and I never saw it again. Since then I've been a little uneasy about keeping one even though I know I shouldn't be.

 

[SoftPeaches]

I used to keep a daily journal when I was in high school, until my parents read it and punished me harshly for everything in it. Nowadays, I have a dream journal and a poetry book.

 

[p_p_man]

Did once...

I was given one of those 5 year diaries so I couldn't get a lot in each space but it was enough for me with my own peculiar shorthand.

Kept it going for 4 years then I made the mistake of reading it.

Every day, every week, every month of every year my life read like one of those "HowTo..." books on how to have the most humdrum, boring existence possible.

Tore it all up after that and never been happier...

 

[Barb Dwyer]

The last time I wrote in a formalized journal was when I was in 6th grade - and btw, back then we just called them 'diaries'!

That all came to an end when my mother read it and saw that my friend and I had written Dear Abby about wanting our breasts to grow so the boys would touch and kiss them! We wanted advice on how to order those breast enlarging things advertised in the back of magazines.

As Mensa said, from that point on, I decided it was the better part of valor to refrain from writing anything down!

 

[p_p_man]

The last time I wrote in a formalized journal was when I was in 6th grade - and btw, back then we just called them 'diaries'!

That all came to an end when my mother read it and saw that my friend and I had written Dear Abby about wanting our breasts to grow so the boys would touch and kiss them! We wanted advice on how to order those breast enlarging things advertised in the back of magazines.

As Mensa said, from that point on, I decided it was the better part of valor to refrain from writing anything down!

LOL!

Nice one!!

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Harpoon]

Only so i can know how much to bill at the end of the month, but it does track where you are and what you are doing over time