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Do You Journal?

Plaid Pants2 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:30:50 GMT

Do you keep a journal/diary?

I do.

I don't write in it every day, but it's where I put all of my deep, dark thoughts that I don't share with anyone else.

I've journaled ever since I was in junior high.

Boy, will people have some interesting reading after I'm dead! *lol*

So, do you write in a journal or diary?

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on the bay — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:34:06 GMT

I used to more than half of my life but then I got really tired of writing something every day.

Plus I was sure neither I nor anyone else would want to read all my "profound" thoughts and some not very cheery or nice.

Now I do write things sometimes, and like to keep cards and notes I've written to my children and also I write down prayers a lot.

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SeaMaiden — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:35:45 GMT

No. I tried it years ago and just found it rather lame. It is not my cup of tea. Like meditating.....I would rather watch TV.

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CareBears — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:39:08 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 I would not say I journal but when someone has hurt me very much or angered me, I turn on the word processor and type it out until my anger or hurt feelings and or I have calmed down, it helps, my fingers fly at lightening speed, and I take the frustration out on the keyboard and not myself or the person who put me in that position in the fist place. I have them all saved in a binder book, why, I don;t know I never go back and look at them again?

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Plaid Pants2 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:47:35 GMT

When I was in high school and college, I would write about the boys that I had hard core crushes on.

Now, I write when something "momentous" happens.

I write my anger and I cuss a blue streak.

It helps to have "someone" to "talk" to.

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CareBears — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:49:53 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 i deem myself a "Professional cusser", I can cuss with the best of them, bad habit I picked up in Junior High, and never outgrew it, ME BAD!

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Pandalady — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:50:00 GMT

I have a journaling Bible and a devotional journal where I reflect on daily passages.

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OKPrincess — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:53:31 GMT

I've journaled once in my life. When my husband died in 2002, I went through grief counseling sessions and one of the "assignments" was to keep a daily journal of my progress through the grieving process. The point of the journal was to look back one day and see how far I came. Wow that brings back memories.🙏🏼

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on the bay — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:55:40 GMT

@CareBears wrote:
@Plaid Pants2 i deem myself a "Professional cusser", I can cuss with the best of them, bad habit I picked up in Junior High, and never outgrew it, ME BAD!

@CareBears-

You know, I think a lot of people over the mason dixon line,, it is much more prevalent and natural to curse with the best of them! Every other word sometimes.

When you travel down south, it seems no longer acceptable and wherever you are, you slowly start to become acclimated to whatever everyone else is saying!

That's what I've found anyway.

It's a hard habit to break, esp. when everyone around you is doing it too.

And it sure stands out glaringly when you are around those who never do.

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CareBears — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:00:44 GMT

@on the bay Do you know how many times I had my mouth washed out with soap for my cursing, did it stop me, H*** No, it anything it encouraged me, my Mom would say where did you pick up that language and I told the truth, I heard Dad say it, which just got me in more trouble. My mother never swore not even a little, I would go on my tangent as an adult and she would just say, Girl I cannot believe your Mouth you should be ashamed of yourself, but you know what I never have been ashamed of my cursing, it sure gets my point across when need be!

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Sooner — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:00:53 GMT

No. Never had. It would be a total waste of paper and time because I have nothing remarkable to journal about, and I can't think of any reason at all to do it.

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on the bay — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:14:04 GMT

@CareBears-

OMG! I'm still laughing about your Betty Boob and "I didn't feel anything" and now this! H.. NO! lol!

My mother was the same-she never cursed. Wow, did you mother really wash your mouth out with soap like The Christmas Story?!

My grandmother said she would just say "Words!" and said that included all of them.

Somehow, those of us with any cursing knowledge, know that just doesn't work... at all.

When I was 6 I suddenly ran around the house and as loud as I could kept yelling the B word!! I don't know where I heard it-probably from the girls near us who always said we were going to H...

My mother was mad and she and my sister were both kind of shocked-out of the mouths of babes for sure.

My sister said when I was 5 I was a little angel but when I turned six I was a devil! Again, that word must of come from the girls across the way! We can always blame them!

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jackthebear — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:17:06 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
Do you keep a journal/diary?

I do.

I don't write in it every day, but it's where I put all of my deep, dark thoughts that I don't share with anyone else.

I've journaled ever since I was in junior high.

Boy, will people have some interesting reading after I'm dead! *lol*

So, do you write in a journal or diary?

years and years ago

I did, I found them recently and couldn't shred them quick enough

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CareBears — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:23:13 GMT

@on the bay YES my mother washed my mouth out with soap, and we had to use the same bar to wash our hands, sometimes it would take weeks to get my teeth imprints out of the bar of soap, I was a challenging child to say the least!

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on the bay — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:18:30 GMT

@CareBears-

We would easily have been fast friends!

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AuntG — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:19:33 GMT

No but I plan to write down all the books I read and movies I watch this year.

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CareBears — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:20:24 GMT

And may I add that sometime when I am on a roll I surprise even myself at some of the words that come out of my mouth, I am good at cussing, My husband always says, "My wife is no lady when it comes to cussing", over the years I have shocked even him!

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chessylady — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:28:20 GMT

I have tried before and failed but a friend gave me a beautiful journal so I started it about 4 days ago. I decided to make it a gratitude journal to put more positivity in my life in these trying times. I also write a few sentences about what happened during the day if warrented.

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software — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:33:01 GMT

Yes but not really.

I have several of those little spiral notebooks and I write sometimes,,not every day, mostly because I have such a horrible memory.

On several pages you may find some profound thoughts I have about life or whatever, next page may have a recipe, or quotes from a movie I'm watching.

Just all kinds of random things.

I enjoy it. I much prefer to read my journals than just about anything.

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Wiscfan3 — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 01:54:06 GMT

I did journal for a few months when I was going through treatment for breast cancer 11 years ago. About 5 years ago I decided that that part of my life was over ( hopefully) and I threw out the journal, all the cards I had received, and many of the "pink" items I had. It felt good to toss it all and was a kind of moving on for me.

My mother-in-law passed away 2 months ago and I found and read her journal. Most of it was about how much she loved all of us and loved doing things with family, but there were some parts that were hard to read--when she wrote that there were times she wished her kids visited more, when she wrote about a misunderstanding she and I had, and when she wished her 3 sons got along better. I sort of wish I would not have read it. I truly don't think anyone else in the family will even read it. I might keep lists of things but I doubt if I will ever journal again.