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Any of you niggas ever journal (by which I mean consistent and detailed)? Ever have any interesting experiences doing so?

I like looking through my old journal entries and finding weird turns of phrase. For example, one bit of autism from my October 4, 2018 entry:

"He was an athletic chadlette, and fairly friendly."
 
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I don’t know how people manage to keep consistent daily journals for years and years. I’ve tried a couple times and it’s always such a pain in the ass.

I’m sure when I’m older I’ll wish I had done it so that I have something to look back on and reminisce about, but that’s future me’s problem. Present me doesn’t have time to sit down and write in a diary every day.

I do admire folks who manage it, though. You’re more dedicated than I am.
 
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I actually found my great and great-great grandfathers journals. One even has the day WW1 ended in it, as he was serving.
His hand writing was barely legible, but it was neat. They were also in old bank pocketbooks, and they had things like city populations and stamp prices in the front.
They did a lot more neat shit than me.
If I ever start doing crazy shit, then I will, just for future generations to gawk at the buttfuck madness of Grandpappy’s younger days.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
Nope. I know some people say it's therapeutic, but I don't know what could be therapeutic about making the possibility of my deepest, and darkest thoughts being discovered a real possibility.
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Write it in code. Use a mighty ass lock to hold it. Bury it in the backyard.
If someone gets past all that, then they deserve to read it at that point.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
Nope. I know some people say it's therapeutic, but I don't know what could be therapeutic about making the possibility of my deepest, and darkest thoughts being discovered a real possibility.
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Just leave that shit out, I don't write about the invasive perverted thoughts I have.

SugarSyrup said:
I don’t know how people manage to keep consistent daily journals for years and years. I’ve tried a couple times and it’s always such a pain in the ass.

I’m sure when I’m older I’ll wish I had done it so that I have something to look back on and reminisce about, but that’s future me’s problem. Present me doesn’t have time to sit down and write in a diary every day.

I do admire folks who manage it, though. You’re more dedicated than I am.
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Well, that's the thing. Your memory is going to be degraded by that time. It's a benefit to have logs written already. It's also a benefit to have things written up in case things happen which prevents you from being able to add to them.

How long it takes depends on how frequently you write and what you write about.

CivilianOfTheFandomWars said:
I actually found my great and great-great grandfathers journals. One even has the day WW1 ended in it, as he was serving.
His hand writing was barely legible, but it was neat. They were also in old bank pocketbooks, and they had things like city populations and stamp prices in the front.
They did a lot more neat shit than me.
If I ever start doing crazy shit, then I will, just for future generations to gawk at the buttfuck madness of Grandpappy’s younger days.
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I don't expect to ever have anything interesting like that to write, and I'd been writing in the journal regularly already, but one thing that inspired me a bit are two books: "The Man Awakened from Dreams" and "The Gossamer Years." The former is a biography of a Confucian scholar from the Chinese Revolution collected from his diary, and the latter is the translated diary of a 12th Century noblewoman, where she mostly just angsts about how her husband is cheating on her.

The idea that I can read the original thoughts (with some information lost due to translation/lack of context) of a woman from over 800 years ago from an entirely different civilization blew my mind, and likewise how the Confucian gentleman serves as a sort of model from which you can talk about all sorts of things from his time.

It's doubtful I'll ever be like either, but in part I like the journal because I like the idea that I may be contributing to a body of writing like that, so the Neo-Aztlanisto archaeologists can read my journal in 3600 AD to see what life was like for a United States professor.
 
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Yeah. I have on and off for years. Longest stretch was about five years. When I travel, which if often, I keep a journal. It is therapeutic and several people are alive today because I kept journals. But the biggest thing is that some c*nt wont respect your privacy and will look at them. I had a girl friend who did that and became an ex real quick. So, now I lock them up; the journals that is, not the girl friends. But in my experience, it is women who more often read their partners journals. Or parents read their kids. You may as well rape them. Such a breach of trust.
There is actual scientific evidence that keeping journals help people process trauma: https://psychcentral.com/lib/the-health-benefits-of-journaling/
 
I journal, but not daily or on any schedule.
I used to write consisitantly every day, but it was all just boring and cringy shit like, "today I got a peek up Sally Wickerbottom's skirt and accidentaly creamed myself during English Class." or horrific Emo woe is me poetry.

Nowadays I have a little black pocket book on me at all time that I tend to fill up with info, either important or no, throughout the day and review in the evening.
If something interesting happened during the day, I would likely remember it or have mentioned it in the notebook and would then write it down in my Journal.
I tend to have at least one interesting thing to write per week.
I think I would write more if my life were more adventurous though.
 
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Tried it felt like a waste of fuckin time. Especially when I can channel my deepest feelings into a punching bag now that shit is therapeutic.
 
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I've been journaling since I was 13 (not every day, but I usually have 2 pages where I conclude important things that happened at the end of the month and then that's it). I only really recommend it if you're interested in seeing how you change as you age, because holy fuck I thankfully did.
 
I used to do it consistently, almost every day for a few years. I had one for stuff that happened every day, one for dreams and nightmares, one for goals and how I wanted to achieve them, and a grimoire of images and quotes. Writing about my bad dreams made them a lot less terrible, which helped a lot. The grimoire was great because it gave me a place to do something creative with pictures I'd been collecting for years and gave me a chance to think about why they appealed to me.
 
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Not a journal of my life or thoughts, but I used to keep a dream journal when I was younger. Thought it would be interesting to keep a record of the particularly weird or surreal dreams I might have. Kept it for just about a year before thinking it was lame and stopped.
 
I found another one.

April 5, 2018
"One of them was a fat lolcow (who, amusingly, kept trying to get [REDACTED] to drink, and who struck me as perhaps being interested in him), one looked like a lesbian..."

Also, apparently the lesson from reading back on this is that I'm a whiny, angry faggot.
 
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I've found no less than two entries about dreams about me being in sexual scenarios with a Black woman and a redhead (both at once), one a few months ago, one dating back over four years.

What does this mean?
 
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