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May 04, 06
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do you keep a journal?
just wondering how many people on this board keep a journal or diary or whatever you want to call it.
i've kept one since i was 8 years old. i'm on my fifth one now. so strange to go back and read about all the things i thought were so important when i was 10 or 14 or 18. 
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May 04, 06
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yeah i don't write in it everyday or anything like that. sometimes i'll go a month without writing anything...just when i feel like it.
i fill them up faster now, but from like 8-13 i think i had the same journal. not much to write in a journal when you're 10 years old. most of it was: went over to geoff's house. we jumped on the trampoline. i ate hot dogs then we went biking. haha.
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May 04, 06
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frick i have like 15 full journals, nevermind five. i am a maniac. my journal is my life. but lately my journal and i have been in bit of a tussle. every once in a while i go through short periods that i don't write anything. then when i finally wanna start writing again i don't kno where to begin. i hate that.
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May 04, 06
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^yeah, i don't write everything in my journals. i don't do the 'well, i haven't written in a month so i have to write everything that has happened in a month'. i just write what i'm feeling right now, what i'm doing now, what i want to do in the future.
i hardly ever write pages and pages of stuff. just a few pages every couple of days. i have many note books filled with other writing and rants, but only five official journals.
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May 04, 06
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^ i try to keep it simple and to the point. but i am a woman. so when i start thinking about how i feel right now.....it takes me down a windy swirly confusing path of emotional kaos...which is extra hard to sort out if my last entry was a month ago. lol
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May 04, 06
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May 04, 06
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Hmmm,
I keep a mad journal and go through at least two a year. I try to write everyday, but sometimes I skip a couple days when I find that nothing significant happened. I've been keeping one consistantly for a while now and I enjoy it as my daily routine at night. I have journals from when I was little too and wrote in those daily, so basically been keeping a journal for at least 10 years. I agree it's weird going back and seeing what I did... especially even a year ago... things change so quickly and when you look back at the place you were in then and then you look at where you are... it's crazy.
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May 04, 06
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I've never been too good at keeping a journal in my daily life, I have this underlying fear that if I write too much personal thoughts in it then someone will one day read them. I could just be paranoid, but there's something about my thoughts that makes me want to keep them that way instead of on paper for the world to see. (also I often forget to write in it in the first place!)
Yet I must admit that my travel journal (from my trip to Europe) is AMAZING because I wrote in it every day, and scrapbooked my tickets/mementos/doodles into it during the trip too! I love opening it up to have a peek at what I was thinking, which country I was in etc. so good for memories!
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May 04, 06
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I don't write a regular journal but if something significant happens in my life i will write it downt somewhere. The other day I found a little piece i wrote about my first sexual encounter with a guy. It was fucking hilarious. I really need to burn that before someone finds it.
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May 04, 06
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Sometimes I write in my MSN space. That's about it. Even then it's not too much.
I keep a lot to myself.
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May 05, 06
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I used to keep journals when I was younger...
I wrote alot when I was depressed, which helped me get better...writing is beautiful. I just recently read through a bunch of my journals and one of them was me describing this bad trip I had on mushrroms that I completely forgot about...It made me feel sick reading it... I also read over all my previous dreams...and looked at my sketches in there.... Perception is a very weird thing... The past few years I have been more into my sketch book than a journal, drawing allows me to be creative and still get out my feelings.... I always write when I am feeling really fucked up though...Like when I think I'm in love with someone or other bullshit emotions like that I cant control
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May 05, 06
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not really, i'm too lazy! o.O
all i do is updating my last.fm journal from time to time with thoughts on music in terrible english. http://www.last.fm/user/stokedfish/journal/ - that's it tho...
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May 05, 06
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i kept a journal up until about a year ago,but usually my poetry is my journal.I dont like the idea of keeping a journal,i think its so babysitters club where you write about useless crap that you`ll look back on and feel ashamed of because its so trivial and insipid.
stupid journals.
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May 05, 06
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^hehe it's kinda like that sometimes.
but i also find it helpful when i need to work something out. it helps to put it on paper and then i can read it back to myself and try to be more objective about it. it's kinda like telling a friend something and then listening to their advice, except it's yourself.
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