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Toaster126 · 03-26-2006, 09:17 PM

I don't keep a journal for a couple reasons. First, it takes time and energy.

Secondly, I think the people in my life that care about what I would put in a journal already know what I would put there, or they can ask me.

On some level, it takes a certain amount of conceit to write in a public journal. A public journal states that you believe what you write about is important or worthy for others to read. I think that applies to all writing, though, not just journaling.

Any public journal I kept would be more of an opinion board... something to share my viewpoints with the world. I have no interest in keeping one for my own thoughts and introspections because I can use my brain to think about those; I don't need to write them down, nor do I want or need others reading them.

Recently I have been asked by several people why I don't keep a journal, so perhaps in the future I may appease the teeming masses and write some thoughts down. I have a strong feeling it will just end up reading like an opinion section in the newspaper, though.

03-26-2006, 09:17 PM	#12 (permalink)
Toaster126 Extreme moderation Location: Kansas City, yo.	I don't keep a journal for a couple reasons. First, it takes time and energy. Secondly, I think the people in my life that care about what I would put in a journal already know what I would put there, or they can ask me. On some level, it takes a certain amount of conceit to write in a public journal. A public journal states that you believe what you write about is important or worthy for others to read. I think that applies to all writing, though, not just journaling. Any public journal I kept would be more of an opinion board... something to share my viewpoints with the world. I have no interest in keeping one for my own thoughts and introspections because I can use my brain to think about those; I don't need to write them down, nor do I want or need others reading them. Recently I have been asked by several people why I don't keep a journal, so perhaps in the future I may appease the teeming masses and write some thoughts down. I have a strong feeling it will just end up reading like an opinion section in the newspaper, though. __________________ "The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand) "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)