Do you keep a journal? Has it helped you and how?

  • Fluba@lemdro.idEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I keep a daily journal whenever I go on vacations (especially trips abroad). While I do take photos throughout the trips, I’m not taking them constantly. So lots of little fun/interesting experiences pop up that aren’t captured.

    My memory isn’t the best either, so when I think back on trips I tend to remember the big things versus the little ones. Journaling at the end of the day or in the morning helps me remember the little things. Also, what I was thinking throughout it all. Like being stranded in Rottenburg ob der Tauber after my train was cancelled. Or when a little dog in the park did a front foot handstand and peed backwards. I couldn’t get my phone out in time, but I wrote that down ASAP.

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’ve started journaling recently to proces some major events for myself. I find that it helps me quiet the thoughts that would otherwise continue to grind through my head.
    Not sure how long I’ll be able to keep it up. But on the other hand, if I stop it might mean that it has served its purpose and I no longer need it.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    9 months ago

    When I’m feeling frustrated or anxious I try to just write what I’m feeling and work through it. Sometimes that’s affirmations (I am good enough, I am safe and loved, etc) and sometimes it’s just brainstorming for how to solve something. I find just getting it out of my head and onto paper at least lets me more effectively get a grasp on what’s bothering me even if it doesn’t fix anything.

    Writing things down also helps me realize that sometimes I’m just being unreasonable, haha.

    I don’t really go back and read most of it, it’s more like scratch paper for my brain.

    • EarlyBaboon@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I have tried a few times to journal when I want to let things out of my system… but haven’t found it much helpful in reducing the miserable feeling. Maybe if I am consistent it will change things.

    • credit crazy@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      I find it pretty funny how for me the post above yours is a guy who has his journal be a incepted document on his Linux PC locked behind a password he hasn’t used on anywhere else then there’s you who makes his journal entries be public posts on a popular Lemmy community I see there are two types of journaling folks

  • somnuz@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    I am currently using stoic. — day 440, so it seems it is over a year now.

    I started using it because when I was like 14-17 I remember doing something like that in notebooks, writing down some ideas, sometimes dreams and whatnot. Later I lost them somehow and lately was wondering what would be there if I would ever find them…

    There is this neat feature in stoic that shows you under the latest note what you wrote one month ago. There is much more to this app, but it is mostly a journal for me.