Are you a beginner, or are you considering if you should start a journal? Ask all your questions here. Are you more experienced? Feel free to share tips, tricks, pictures of your journal, anecdotes. Anything related to keeping a journal is welcome in this weekly thread.
Why a WT?
We’ve a steadily growing community—we’re now 456 members, twenty more than last week! hi & welcome to all of you!—but we don’t have that much active members.
My idea is therefore to encourage people in participating more by pushing a weekly theme. It’s an invitation, not an obligation. Feel free to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread ;)
This week theme: Nothing is working out
What do you do when stuff aren’t working as expected? Do you journal about them? If so, how? Do you use your journal as tool to try to better understand what’s going or is it just a way to record the event and keep track of them?
I don't journal systematically. I mean, once shit really starts hitting the fan I may not take the time to journal as much as I would like to (and that could be for a single day, weeks, or more) but I will still try my best to do it.
First, I try to keep a record, a long-term memory of events whose details I will most certainly forget otherwise. And then, I try to journal as a way to (try to) reflect upon what's happening and my attitude: how did I react, did I panic?... Like I just did, a couple minutes ago, when I was suddenly faced with a certain situation and an urgent situation, it's how I try to analyze my reactions and see if I made the right choice, or not the right one.
Said pages in my journal can be real messy and not flattering nor kind toward myself but I don't l mind. What I do mind is in retrospect to realize I have not written at all about/during that event and have not tried to get all I could from analyzing my (re)actions.