Heck, yes. I've been keeping a journal every.single.day. since I was 12.
I mean every day. Like, I haven't missed writing about a single day. Sometimes I'm busy and have to write an entry on the day after it happens. At one point in my life I had to catch up for about 4 days' worth at a time. But every day has its own entry.
I took out this box from my closet, just for you, guys. So enjoy.
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| The box. |
I was expecting...maybe 20 notebooks at the most. As I took them out of the box, they just kept coming. I believe my exact words were, "Oh, my freaking goodness." I'm not a "freaking" kind of girl. I don't use the word "freaking" unless it is freaked out of me. I have 24 completed journals, 25 with the one I'm using now.
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| Here they are. |
Some reoccurring themes are cats, flowers, brown, and purple. (I don't know if you've noticed, notebook-makers really like flowers.) There is only ONE non-spiral bound journal in the pack. That's because I tried it once and hated it. Too bad the spirals don't fit in boxes that easily. And too bad all the cool journals are book-bound.
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| Are you seriously trying to count these? |
For the heck of it, I made a notebook tower. It was not easy, but I did it for you guys. Because I love you.
So, you probably want to know what's INSIDE the journals, right? Well, here's the thing. I don't even know that. I have never, ever read through one of them. Even taking them out and looking at them, I still don't feel the urge to read them. I opened to a couple different pages at random, looked over the words and closed them again. The past is the past, you know?
So why do I write an entry every day?
Why not.
(Extra hint: I'm a writer.)
So, do you keep a journal?
Photo credits to Monique, my beautiful Mac computer.
