What do you think about journals and do you keep one?

Answer 1

If you can find "the right way" to keep a journal, then by all means! Do so! It's fun and can be so great looking back at it a couple of years after it's finished and see how you were back then.... I know from experience. I'm writing one right now on my Sweet 16, trying to figure out what's so sweet about it for me and I think I may have succeeded. For now. Anyways, journals are great.

Answer 2

Keeping journals is one way of recording the highlights (and lows) of your life. When I was in high school, I kept one just to keep track of the things that I am supposed to do and how much of it have I accomplished. I didn't pursue it in college. But when the "blog era" came about, I wrote an online journal. However, this year, I thought of going back to the basics and really write my thoughts and perspectives in a journal so that I have one now. The novel thing is I not only write about the highs and lows of my days but I also include the lessons that I have learned from my experiences, from the people I have dealt with, and even from the things I have read.
I advise you keep a journal. You don't necessarily need to write everything that happens to you everyday...just when you feel like you need to write down things. It is a venue for pouring your mind and heart into words.
I want to share something that I've read from a romance novel by Mary Balogh: "There were some days that were so unremarkable that a week afterward one could not recall a single thing that happened in them. And then there were days that seemed packed full of a lifetime of experiences."
You choose which of these days would you feel like writing down on your journal.

Answer 3

I received my first diary,a Christmas gift, when I was about 8 and I wrote only a few times, such as when a cousin was born and I was completely devastated because I wanted it to be a girl and it was a boy. I also wrote in it when my Grandpa died. I didn't start consistently writing until I was about 13, when life suddenly became very complicated. I think wrote in it every day, pages and pages, as a way of venting my emotions. I have never been very good at openly expressing my feelings, so writing was a great way to get it all out. I think my journals might have saved my parents a lot of headaches during my teenage years.
Once I started college, my writing slowed down quite a bit and virtually stopped when I met the man who is now my husband.
I have recently started keeping one, again, mostly to write down my thoughts and feelings about books I've read, movies, or important events. It's not so much for daily experiences or emotions. I'm afraid that if I start using a journal for venting my frustrations and such, I might start feeling sorry for myself a little too much.
I think that journals can be very helpful and healthy because they encourage self-examination but that's not always a good thing if it leads to self-loathing or feeling sorry for yourself.

Answer 4

I kept a journal from the time I was 11 until I was about 40. Then I got happy and got my life together. I think I used my journals as a safety valve. I did my bit**ing and whining there and worked things out in writing. I remarried at 40 and got really happy and I have not kept a journal since. BUT I have started writing my "memoirs" and what I have learned in life. I think my children, or grandchildren, or great, great grandchildren might find it interesting. I HAVE learned a lot about life and think that might be something that might help them one day.

Answer 5

I have a journal that I write about my life/all my random thoughts/story ideas in. So its got like 15 different ideas for stories I could write but never got around to, Me going on for pages about people that make me mad, anything major that's happened lateley, and any other random thought that happens to cross my mind. I've kept it for about 2 years. My english teacher said I should keep a journal, so I started and I still have it......It's a little bit annoying sometimes, lol.

Answer 6

I used to keep one, but I am findin git harder to do since I am so consumed with school.
I think journals are great for writing down ideas and feelings. THere are a safe palce to write all of waht is happened and happening in your life. It is also fun to go back to a journal you write in about 5 years ago a read it. Its pretty funny and embarasing moments are much easier to laugh at.
I like journals, and I think I'll start writing in it more often.
Thanks.
God Bless you.
K.K.

Answer 7

Journals - There are all kinds of journals. Some could be your typical day-to-day thoughts and experiences. Others could be to keep poetry that you've written. And so on...

I highly suggest everyone keep one. They are nice records of history and of that person's life.

I have a handwritten one for me, one that I keep for my fiance while we're apart, two online, and another for poetry. But I'm not consistent with any of them.

Answer 8

I used to keep a handwritten journal. I now post on livejournal.

Answer 9

I think they are nice. Years ago I kept one for a few years but life seemed to get too busy, I guess, and I neglected it. Wish I hadn't now. Lots of memories.