Journaling

Cody! · 11-17-2009, 05:53 PM

What's your standpoint on journals to keep your ideas, thoughts, and dreams or maybe just summarries of your day?

I personally enjoy journaling daily because it can be a way to relieve stress or calm anger or other emotions. The best thing about journally for me is that I can go through my journals entries from the past and they'll really make me think and experience the things I went through while I was writing in my head.

The biggest fall back of a journal in my opinion the fact that someone can find your journal and read your deepest thoughts that you might not want them seeing.

dsi · 11-18-2009, 09:01 PM

I hate Journaling, its a snooze fest in my opnion. I would rather sit and just think about thoughts instead of writing it down.

Oops · 11-19-2009, 11:49 PM

I used to have online diaries, both got found by my friends and both had secret stuff in that pissed off a few morons. I was 14 then. When I was 18 I had another one and filled it with random crap, poetry, prose, etc... now I just don't document anything. Most people don't need a journal seems they have at least one friend who takes photos of everything to put on facebook.

Cody! · 11-20-2009, 07:27 PM

I didn't realized everyone have such bad journaling experience, but then again if my parents went through my journal and took the hints from my writing and found out I was gay I think i'd die

**Axed** · 11-20-2009, 07:38 PM

I have a tumblr with only a couple of followers so I'm pretty much free to write whatever's on my mind there. It's a good way for me to release my feelings because overall I'm not a very angry person and this gets rid of the occasional feeling of me wantng to punch someone in the face.

Charger · 11-21-2009, 03:40 AM

I have kept journals since I was about 12. I still have every single one, and I still journal daily... it's just a habit, and it makes me feel better to get everything out on paper. I'm so bad about it that I keep a mini notebook and pen in my purse just in case I feel like I need to write when I'm out somewhere, even if it's just a sentence.
Here's the thing though. I go to therapy (I'm Bipolar and have Panic Disorder), and when I told the therapist that I journal, she actually got upset and told me to burn them all ASAP! She said that the past is the past, and going back and reading about it, and re-living everything was not healthy. I still can't bring myself to burn them though... good or bad, those are my memories, ya know?
Sorry for the ramble... probably didn't make much sense, as it's 5:40am here and I haven't slept yet lol! XD

**Aethean** · 11-21-2009, 07:46 AM

Journals? Why on earth would you want a diary :S

Divination · 11-21-2009, 04:26 PM

I don't think I could possibly journal daily seeing as everyday is not worth writing about. And if I did and someone found it...yeah that would be bad.

Crepe · 11-21-2009, 09:58 PM

I used to journal a lot, I'd write down everything that I was thinking, feeling, etc. because I just had a hard time dealing with life. I don't journal anymore, however, because Project 365 has caught my attention. I'll be starting in January and am quite excited about it. (:

ballsonchin · 11-21-2009, 10:02 PM

Journaling is really fun in my opinion i love to just jot down some things about my day, life, secrets and stuff and its all about what i want to put on it and my own creative way which makes it more fun to write it