How Does Journaling Help People to Deal with Life?

Journaling is like a diary, a form of writing your daily routine, plans, dreams or whatever you want to write. It can also be something that you express your thoughts with, just like when you are blogging online. When I was young, the person that I know that has a diary is my mother. She said that she writes everything in her journal.

I started when I was 11. I had a crush on one of my classmates. I tried writing at the back of one of my academic notebook. I tried reading it during the night and I like what I felt. I bought one notebook specifically for some events with my crush and that started my journaling. I even started to write my own novel because of journaling. It really helps me with life before and even up to now, not that I am active writing it, I keep one.

Journaling helps me a lot. I am an introvert. I have friends at school but I prefer to be alone with my books. I get bored easily with people and I have doubts about the people around me even when I was young so I decided to stick with journaling. Journaling became my companion. I say whatever I feel without someone judging me. I used to think there will always people who will criticize me and laugh at my back when they know my weakness so I tell everything on my journal.

When I have problems, I write it in my journal. I share everything. I let it all out. My emotions will come out once I started writing. It helps me to cry. I can say anything. While writing and once I finished it, it helps me to realize something that I will come out with a decision. It somehow makes me a good person.

Journaling also guides me with life. During weekends, I try to read most of my entry. I learned that problems come and go with me. Sometimes I have the same problems arriving and I realized I never learned from my mistakes from the past. My journal is my guide. It is my guide towards a decision and how to deal with people. It brings me back to the times in the past that I will discover how my friends have been true with me and how can I handle those who did not. I also learned to know my real weaknesses and how to solve my issues. It is really a perfect guide for me.

If people will able to grab one of my journals from the past, they will realize that every life is worth keeping. I thought my childhood was not good but when I started laughing on the incident in the past I realized, it is worthy. I am worthy of my life and I love to make it improve. It helps me to appreciate my life more and the people who have been helping me ever since. Every journal is the story of people. It is a book of detailed events, a true story, and learning. I hope everyone keeps a journal.

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