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by Anonymous on December 12th, 2006

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Why write a journal? and what sort of things do you write in a journal.

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  • by Redhawk on December 12th, 2006

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    I write about events that have taken place. Could be vacations, birthdays, births, deaths. I write about HOW I FEEL about things...what I'm thinking, plans I make, ideas and how I might make them happen. I write when I'm happy, sad, angry, satisfied.

    I love reading ones from my 20's, I'm 48 now...it's both fun and sometimes embarrassing to see how I've either "grown" or failed to grow! They serve as motivators sometimes, if I'm still doing some inane behavior that obviously didn't "serve me well" in the past...I can sometimes manage to STOP IT when confronted by reading my past! Or move forward on a good idea that for whatever reason, I've failed to jump on!

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  • by catlovr on December 12th, 2006

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    I wrote in a journal for years as a tool to help sort all of my thoughts and feelings out. Then a boyfriend found it, read it, highlighted the bad things I wrote about him in it and left it open on the floor for me to find, thinking I would be ashamed and penitent. I told him if I knew he was going to be so intrusive as to read my personal diary I would have been much much more creative when I said he was an a-hole.

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  • by LynfromNM on December 12th, 2006

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    I use one, and it helps me clean my brain. Since no one else sees it, I use it to vent and to ponder, and so that I can remember what exactly I was pondering about. I also use it to record my reactions to different events and to prognosticate - anything from my preseason guesses about who will be in the Superbowl, to what my granddaughter will want to major in when she goes to college. It's fun to look back and see if I got anything right. So far I'm about 50-50! I think my journal helps me think more clearly and keep things in perspective.

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  • by branciforte3241 on December 12th, 2006

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    I'm sure you will get a lot of answers expounding on the literary and poetic virtues of journal writing. I won't go there.

    When you commit your thoughts to paper, you are allowing them to be challenged. Many people will nurture fearful, dysfunctional thoughts which would disappear if they ever saw the light of day. First, by verbalizing the thought, you expose it to many more parts of your brain. Second, by putting it on paper, you expose the thought to the question "what if someone else saw this?" which forces you to examine the thought more objectively.

    It also helps you improve your handwriting, spelling, and grammar; all valuable job skills. It is also a record of what you've done, which you can go back and check, should the need arise. And that can work for you or against you in a court of law. Keeping a journal will also help you express yourself verbally with other people, since you're doing exercises in phrasing all the time.

    That being said, I never update my journal. I am much too lazy. :(

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  • by bigkado69 on December 12th, 2006

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    i sometimes wish i wrote a journal everyday so i known what i did .would be cool to know what was goin on when i was 21 when im like 50 or something.u pretty much write what u did everyday and how you were feeling tht day.but i guess its never to late to start one.

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  • by BLUE LOTUS 935618 on May 8th, 2011

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    i do a lot of things with my journal.
    i write songs. poems.
    i draw all over my pages.. color them.
    everything.
    there is nothing that doesn't go in a journal. because guess what it's YOUR journal. not anyone elses. so who gets to say what's in it? that's right you.
    i write about my love and about how i feel. if i showered. who i saw on AB. how d*&^ sh&^y some people are.
    i even write about what people say.
    how i feel. what made me feel like that.
    recipes... anything i can cook.
    i write japanese in there too. anything i can remember to write. i write. my own horrible sentences in a new language.
    i write lyrics to songs.
    that mean anything to me.
    i'm serious... anything you want to write down. can go into your journal. i even write contacts in there. muah ha ha. everything flies with my journal.

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