florencefiftySenior Contributor
What think you about JOURNALING?
I never understood the point of journaling, because no-one's going to read it.
However, I read a very compelling response to that, and I'm sold. Someone said that they used to journal when they were very young. Their first journal entry was:
if I was a ghost, I’d only haunt horrible people so I could try to make them good. I wouldn’t just scare people even though that would be funny.
They tried getting into it with an audience in mind... but then they found that they wanted it to be perfect, BECAUSE they were trying to impress an audience.
Writing can be VERY restrictive and revisionary if you let it. However, the whole charm of mental health journaling is just to let your thoughts out, without worrying about your technical prowess, or how your language sounds, or whether you're using perfect grammar and spelling...
There's a real freedom in writing like nobody's reading... kind of like dancing as if nobody's watching, or at least pretending as such.
And you might notice, I tried to write this thread without editing it. I hope it didn't make you throw up or anything.
Seriously, though, it's good once in a while.
