Whenever I leave the house, I consider my journal as much a necessity as my wallet, and I always carry one with me. As I use my journal, I sort of grow a relationship with it. My journal feels like my friend, my companion. Inevitably, the more I carry it around the more worn down it gets. The corners crease, the edges fray, and somehow in that process it becomes more mine. The more I use it, the more of myself it carries inside it. Finishing a journal can feel really good, but it can also feel like parting with a dear friend.
Whenever I finish a journal, I feel a little bit at a loss of what to do with it. Now that I don't have any more room to write in it, what function does it really have? Break time. Americorps graduation day with my crew.
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Old Journals — Keep or Toss? Bella Organizing. My journals were part of the story. A camera focused up tight on my hypergraphia, blurring out the swear words I had used. In the show, I claimed that my journals, along with writing as a whole, helped me to get better.
And it was true, in a way. In that moment, I became the success story my mother wanted. Every year since then, I filled another coil-bound notebook and added it to a box in my closet. In over a decade of writing, I amassed quite a few. So why, some people have asked me, did I throw out a chunk of these journals earlier this year? She regretted throwing out her writing—but beyond that, she regretted ceasing to write in the first place.
Her trust had been violated. People regret throwing out their journals because it was not their decision. Like my mother, a trusted person violated their privacy, or someone they cared about told them to stop writing or told them their thoughts were pointless. Even the more quotidian explanations—a flood destroyed the journals, they were lost in a move, or thrown out accidentally—can still result in a feeling of betrayal.
We want to keep our journals because they become the symbol of us, of our voices and our life experiences. For example, you may have written the day of your child's birth, your wedding day, 50 th birthday, a best friend's baby shower, or your brother's death and funeral.
These are dates and other memories that you don't want to forget as memory fades with age. By having them in your journal, you can go back and remember the past. Sometimes people don't write pages upon pages of journal entries. There are times where you may only write a phrase that you heard from a TV show, a talk show, or something a friend may have said that you wanted to remember.
If you are feeling down, you may and wish to have an uplifting moment to yourself, or something to laugh at you may go back to one of your old journals and read your previous journal entries. Just like any other sentimental thing that you own, you find it hard to let go of when it comes to cleaning our basement, room, or the overflowing storage closet.
Here are five simple reasons why you should throw away your old journals. All of the journals you have used or collected over the years, probably ended up on a shelf, stacked on your desk, in your desk drawer, in a box down in the basement, or piled up in the corner of your room collecting dust.
In other words, these journals filled with memories, emotions, and random ramblings that have been forgotten and are taking up space. If you have your journals lying around, someone else may decide to satisfy his or her curiosity and crack open a pandora's box of exciting and unwanted secrets. This issue is a significant reason why many people have thrown away their journals because trust is broken over privacy being invaded and hurt feelings.
There is no need to keep your old journals if you aren't planning on writing your autobiography any time soon. If they were a hobby when you were younger but didn't plan on continuing then, there is no need to keep them around any longer. If you can't figure out a reason as to why you are keeping your old journals, you are better off throwing them away. Ask yourself, "Do I need to keep this journal? Don't take too long to ponder over these questions.
If you can't find an answer, then you should throw the journal away, or else you will find yourself making excuses to keep the journals.
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