r/Journaling

My journal holds a little of everything but I just finished Don’t Let The Forest In by C. G. Drew’s and I was obsessed so decided to make my review page extra

My partner has been getting me into Noah Kahn and I started listening to his album “Stick Season” while working today. After a text exchange I had with a family member today that left me feeling really depressed (on top of other family issues I’ve been dealing with these past few months) writing down the lyrics to Noah’s song “Moving Sideways” and my thoughts has helped me express/come to terms with certain feelings.

Could I have gone downstairs and fetched a camping lantern? Sure, but this just adds to the free writing

You could say I love this quote.

Today's entry in my little yellow notebook: a very opinionated response to an "article" in NYT I find a total nonsense written by a super pedantic person who openly admits of having miserably failed at journaling / keeping a diary.

I think he simply has an extremely narrow view of what journaling is and is not, and keeping a diary truly mean. My conclusion is that he fails, and doesn't want to be the only one failing.

Thankfully Anne Frank had never read this article! Oh wait...

(Yes, I'm opinionated to a fault 🤣 and I actually also do "keep a notebook" in parallel as it's complimentary system he fails to understand)

Instruments: Leuchtturm 17 Royal Blue (B5), Waterman Hemisphere (Gold) & mix of 3 blue inks: Out Of The Blue & Dutch Masters - Vermeer by Akkerman (The Hague) + Waterman Serenity Blue.

Next time I'll write a whole month with each seperately.

I was preparing for an entrance exam at that time.Remembered how lonely and terrible i felt during those time,but I still tried to keep myself happy doing Journaling sometimes

It’s very satisfying to see it filling up like this ☺️

I've never really journaled regularly, a few times as a kid, on vacations, and digitally when I was very stressed. But the fine inspiration here has led me to pick up a notebook for everyday life dumps and doodles.

it just feels so silly 😭

TW Thoughts about taking ones life and post partum depression.

This journal is for my thoughts, you know those who don't leave you alone.

I'll share the entry here. Because one - I am really happy with my handwriting so I'll brag a bit and two - maybe someone get something out of it. I don't know.

I felt so alone at that point in my life. I did not even know post partum depression was a thing. It's 12 years ago, mental health awareness has come a long way since then. Thank God.

Looking at posts in this subreddit today inspired this journal entry. I journal to myself in the future, things that I would like to remember. What would you add to the list?

Just sharing today's entry in my tiny yellow notebook :)