Why I no longer journal January 14
I used to keep a journal, for several years. It was something my friend Katie taught me, and I cherised.And then I went travelling abroad. And I still kept a journal, and cherished it even more. It was a way of digesting everything I was going through, and seeing. I didn’t keep it as a record, or as something for anyone else to look at. I kept it for the process of writing, for the ways in which it made me think about my life.
But in the several years since I’ve been back (I was gone for 16 months), I haven’t journaled hardly at all (a few pages worth of entries). I think largely, it was because life at home simly isn’t as exciting as life on the road. Things seemed less worth writing about. And then it just became habit.
I miss it.