A journal ought to be legible to a third party, specifically a relation. The mundane and psychobabble are irrelevant. There should be odd events and auspices, remarkable things.
Its only gay if you write tummy down on your bed with your feet kicking the air.
Journal away friendo.
KEK
Not op, but I started one to keep track of all the cute shit my son does and says. That's still the backbone of most days, but I then I broadened into how I'm doing as a dad, not so much current events but what's the world going to be like when my boy's grown up and how can I support him then. Then my own dad died so I simultaneously had too much to write and didn't really want to write. As my kid grows I've been exploring similar events from my childhood and how it's different, or how I'll be different to my own folks (if at all). And on it goes.
Based
That's a diary. A journal is more thematic. You write about specific experiences, thoughts, prospects or whatever.
What would be a combination of both ?
A Diajournal or Journalary
writing everyday in whatever form is based
all of the greatest writers and heroes of history kept a journal. what a great accomplishment it is for people to read your private thoughts hundreds of years after your death because your mind matters more than others
>all of the greatest writers and heroes of history kept a journal
lol no they didn't. Where's Shakespeare's journal? Where'a Dante's? Where's Charlemagne's? Julius Caesar's? Augustus'?
That they were not invented earlier just makes the initial point made by
all of the greatest writers and heroes of history kept a journal. what a great accomplishment it is for people to read your private thoughts hundreds of years after your death because your mind matters more than others
false though, you if you are that guy you refuted yourself.
Not op, but I started one to keep track of all the cute shit my son does and says. That's still the backbone of most days, but I then I broadened into how I'm doing as a dad, not so much current events but what's the world going to be like when my boy's grown up and how can I support him then. Then my own dad died so I simultaneously had too much to write and didn't really want to write. As my kid grows I've been exploring similar events from my childhood and how it's different, or how I'll be different to my own folks (if at all). And on it goes.
Absolutely based.
I've been mulling over journaling for an embarrassing amount of time of inaction, but you've convinced me to finally start. I'll go pick one up this weekend.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Only two pieces of advice I'd say to make things easier: find a theme or a thread to write about, can be anything, and you'll branch from there, mine was my boy.
And start small. To begin I'd write maybe half a page to a page when I felt the occasion, but I've done it so often and long, it's rare when I don't write, and for less than 2 pages. The first 3 years fit in one journal, but now each year needs at least 2 books.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Thank you. I have a son as well. He's only 18 months, so it would be nice to have some thoughts written for him while he's still relatively young and won't have many memories if any at all.
Another reason I want to journal is that these days, especially as an adult, there's almost no need to ever put pen to paper. I have a couple of notes my dad made, things that have no actual value and were just scribbled tasks or whatever he jotted down some random day, but it's powerful to see someone's handwriting when their gone. Maybe he'd appreciate that.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Maybe he'd appreciate that
That's my hope too. I only have a few notes from my Dad, I'm pretty sure he was a functioning illiterate. But I have other things. Memories of a person suddenly matter when you won't be making new ones anymore.
And 18 months is a good time to start, you're through the first year of shit, and the kid'll really develop his personality.
It also helps you develop your writing style, and keeps you in the habit of writing.
On my deathbed, I plan to read back my own life story, and reassure myself it was all worthwhile.
How does one even journal? And how the frick is it therapeutic? When I write my trauma comes out and I cant fricking stand it. My whole soul is fricking screaming in pain right now. I was excited to finally get serious about my writing and after a week I feel fricking hardbroken and lost. I’ve never felt so fricking horrible. This shit is supposed to be therapeutic? I guess I’ll never be a fricking writer there goes my dream because writing for me just beings on agony.
I did this too, and then I quit journaling for about a year. Now I journal to have a record of my existence. A lot of my days are similar to each other, but the journal is proof that they happened, and what I did each day. I write a few sentences at breakfast, then before bed I write what I did that day, what I'll do that night, and a half paragraph of what i thought of the day. I write imagining that someone is reading over my shoulder, which keeps me away from overly sensitive topics that I save for long drives or similar.
It took me a while to confront my own demons head on. I started writing with another focus, which eventually let me confront them. I don't normally write day to day shit unless something notable happened, but even then I write because the event got me thinking.
I came through a realization about that through journaling, my younger self always wrote about the problems my head thought off, of how much I was suffering because of x and y, creating poetry and using big complex words to bring out some kind of beauty from my "tragedy". Growing up I started to realize many of these problems are actually mental constructions, and my brain begins to get obsessed about orchestrating some kind of plan to solve a "problem" I manifested into existence by thought alone. These days my journal is mostly about stuff I have to do, and when I catch myself spiralling into doom I try writing about things I CAN do, or about things I usually take for granted like family members, sensorial memories, long time friends, and it feels very good. The other day I clipped a drawing my little niece made of me into the journal, things like that fill me with confort in stormy times.
>can't handle a little agony and isolation
Get used to it c**t, also just write through the pain, your brain wants to get it out so let it, and then burn it. This is a common practice in reiki healing
I used to journal about my day, how I felt about work and people around me.
I did it for a year, and reading it afterwards made me realized that I'm a sperg and I should value family and friends too.
i used to journal daily for the sake of practicing my handwriting
i only ended up writing about work and my handwriting didn't get any better so i stopped
it didn't work for me so it's gay
I started journaling my thoughts daily with the intention of feeding all my texts into an AI 20 years later and get an exact copy of myself that could possibly outlive me.
I got tired of it after some 6 months though. Also I feel that the thoughts I put into words are not enough to fully describe and emulate my behavior, there's too many things I feel that I can't put into words. I can tell the journal I've read X book and that Y impressed me about it, and the AI could probably read the book as well, but in reality I'll forget 90% of the book and only some specific 10% of it will leave an impression on me and affect my behavior long term, which I likely won't be able to identify in the day of my journaling.
Now I just write my thoughts once a month because it's interesting to look back to see how I used to think in the past. The only problem I have is that I find a lot of the stuff I write to be cringe.
You'll be glad you journaled ten years from now, when you can easily read through your own words and get a sense of who you were then instead of using your faulty memory. But nearly every entry will make you cringe and say "damn I was a gay."
>July 7, 2023
Today I, well that is redundant because a journal is today and of course it's "I," felt myself given over to self-scrutiny, which is admittedly another redundancy but I go on, where the expansion of consciousness is itself folding in on itself with the neutralizing of the body and this increased moral scrutiny is indistinguishable from scrupulosity whereby the mind is a moral ruler for the moral and immoral movements of its nethers and highest moments but really this self-training is an athleticism of the infinite, a tutoring in the voided mass of morality which undergoes a transformation via its refinement into its own self that is a purified and heightened form.
All writing is gay. The 'you' on the page is castrated of a solid male presence. It's passively carried along by the flow of the text, existing not in its own right but only as it's recognised by an abstract imaginary interlocutor. Any signifiers of gender you attempt to pin down to the page to arrest the flow are, to that hypothesised reader who sees only the text, just another rhetorical device, another mask, on the same level as any other and as valid as any other. OR SO THE MAOIST ATHEIST GANGSTERS WHO HAVE INVADED OUR HALLS OF LEARNING WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE
you cannot have the homosexual without the bad. that is the point of using the word "gay" for bad things, because there is nothing as bad as homosexuality and anyone who is homosexual is doomed (aka "bad").
only if you write gay shit like your feelings. i just write down the daily temperature and log new developments in the lives of the wild chickens in my neighborhood
Based. Mine is completely inward looking and almost exclusively about wanting to quit drugs and masturbation. It's been this way for a decade. Really sad to watch someone spin his wheels like this.
No, having a record of everything going on is useful. I keep one for work and am working on keeping up with one for my personal life. The work one has been useful since my job includes managing some people while keeping track of my own projects. Throughout the day I'll take a minute here and there to record what I've done and who I have spoken to and what it was about. If I have an issue I can refer back to previous conversations and when I return from trips I can review the couple of weeks before I left to orient myself.
Every time I keep a journal I can't help from overwriting. I feel that I have to write down everything I'm doing and thinking since it's the only way to keep this "version" of me alive into the future when I read it.
On an unrelated note, does anyone here struggle with dream journaling? I'm usually a pretty happy guy but the more I write down my dreams, the more I remember them and the more I realize how fricked up and stressful they are. I just don't have happy dreams. I always have to stop after a few weeks because the stress begins to carry over into my actual life since I remember them so much better. I don't know why this is but I'm curious if it happens to anyone else because it genuinely worries me a bit.
I've kept a dream journal for years. It's been one of my most rewarding projects. It's opened up a dialogue with my unconscious side that I never thought possible.
If you're having bad dreams, then your unconscious is not pleased with you. Best to figure out what these dreams are saying, and acknowledge their point of view.
Post the details here if you like, and I'll try to interpret them. Although it's a tricky thing to do for other people, and I can't promise any great insights.
I don't think my dreams are that difficult to interpret honestly, like one where my grandpa dies or one where my girlfriend is sadly calling my name and I can't reach her I think show fairly clearly that I'm worried about my grandpa dying and I'm afraid of losing my connection with my gf. But I know these things about myself already, and they're not crippling fears in my day to day life or anything. But it's all I dream about.
Just because you grasp the surface meaning doesn't mean there isn't a deeper meaning.
Jung says that our dreams draw out attention to things we're neglecting. Otherwise, what purpose do they serve?
Your girlfriend could represent Jung's Anima, which is your suppressed, deep personality.
Your grandpa could represent Jung's Wise Old Man, who is the fully-developed male personality, which has successfully integrated the Anima.
So your dreams could mean that you're neglecting your own personal development. Your Anima is aching for you to notice her, and the Wise Old Man is destined never to live if you ignore her.
The best advice I can give you is to read Jung's writings on dreams.
Only if you publish it or if your mom finds out about it
It's gay until you see my improved writing prowess
>the theurgy of excretion
A journal ought to be legible to a third party, specifically a relation. The mundane and psychobabble are irrelevant. There should be odd events and auspices, remarkable things.
Put down the thesaurus.
Pick up a book.
Fish my anaconda out of its "terrarium" and find out if you have what it takes to be my executive assistant
Do you own a dangerous reptile or are you soliciting gay sex?
Yes
homie you sound like my pawn in dragon’s dogma
WRONG
KEK
Based
What would be a combination of both ?
A Diajournal or Journalary
writing everyday in whatever form is based
all of the greatest writers and heroes of history kept a journal. what a great accomplishment it is for people to read your private thoughts hundreds of years after your death because your mind matters more than others
>all of the greatest writers and heroes of history kept a journal
lol no they didn't. Where's Shakespeare's journal? Where'a Dante's? Where's Charlemagne's? Julius Caesar's? Augustus'?
Julia Caesars and Shakespear's journals would be kino
>What is de bello gallico?
moron
That's not a journal, pseud morons. Have you even read it or know why he wrote it? It's literally written in third person.
It's literally an early example of journalism.
journalism =/= journaling
>Julius Caesar
I mean he did write the conquest of gaul
That's not a journal.
Its basically his dream diary
You name people before the invention of the journal low iq moron
Terrible bait.
That they were not invented earlier just makes the initial point made by
false though, you if you are that guy you refuted yourself.
If you're writing a journal as a shrine to your own ego that's really pathetic.
Its only gay if you write tummy down on your bed with your feet kicking the air.
Journal away friendo.
>Gay, but therapeutic.
This, but it gets less gay and more therapeutic, even addictive, the more and longer you write.
On my 2nd journal this year so far. Will likely start a new one in October.
Gay, but therapeutic. It has helped me sort some things out in my head. I wish I had started younger.
How so? You just write and figure out how you feel along the way?
Not op, but I started one to keep track of all the cute shit my son does and says. That's still the backbone of most days, but I then I broadened into how I'm doing as a dad, not so much current events but what's the world going to be like when my boy's grown up and how can I support him then. Then my own dad died so I simultaneously had too much to write and didn't really want to write. As my kid grows I've been exploring similar events from my childhood and how it's different, or how I'll be different to my own folks (if at all). And on it goes.
Absolutely based.
I've been mulling over journaling for an embarrassing amount of time of inaction, but you've convinced me to finally start. I'll go pick one up this weekend.
Only two pieces of advice I'd say to make things easier: find a theme or a thread to write about, can be anything, and you'll branch from there, mine was my boy.
And start small. To begin I'd write maybe half a page to a page when I felt the occasion, but I've done it so often and long, it's rare when I don't write, and for less than 2 pages. The first 3 years fit in one journal, but now each year needs at least 2 books.
Thank you. I have a son as well. He's only 18 months, so it would be nice to have some thoughts written for him while he's still relatively young and won't have many memories if any at all.
Another reason I want to journal is that these days, especially as an adult, there's almost no need to ever put pen to paper. I have a couple of notes my dad made, things that have no actual value and were just scribbled tasks or whatever he jotted down some random day, but it's powerful to see someone's handwriting when their gone. Maybe he'd appreciate that.
>Maybe he'd appreciate that
That's my hope too. I only have a few notes from my Dad, I'm pretty sure he was a functioning illiterate. But I have other things. Memories of a person suddenly matter when you won't be making new ones anymore.
And 18 months is a good time to start, you're through the first year of shit, and the kid'll really develop his personality.
It also helps you develop your writing style, and keeps you in the habit of writing.
On my deathbed, I plan to read back my own life story, and reassure myself it was all worthwhile.
yeah if youre not gay to begin with it will 100% make you a homosexual
everything is gay
fricking pussy is gay
How does one even journal? And how the frick is it therapeutic? When I write my trauma comes out and I cant fricking stand it. My whole soul is fricking screaming in pain right now. I was excited to finally get serious about my writing and after a week I feel fricking hardbroken and lost. I’ve never felt so fricking horrible. This shit is supposed to be therapeutic? I guess I’ll never be a fricking writer there goes my dream because writing for me just beings on agony.
I did this too, and then I quit journaling for about a year. Now I journal to have a record of my existence. A lot of my days are similar to each other, but the journal is proof that they happened, and what I did each day. I write a few sentences at breakfast, then before bed I write what I did that day, what I'll do that night, and a half paragraph of what i thought of the day. I write imagining that someone is reading over my shoulder, which keeps me away from overly sensitive topics that I save for long drives or similar.
It took me a while to confront my own demons head on. I started writing with another focus, which eventually let me confront them. I don't normally write day to day shit unless something notable happened, but even then I write because the event got me thinking.
I came through a realization about that through journaling, my younger self always wrote about the problems my head thought off, of how much I was suffering because of x and y, creating poetry and using big complex words to bring out some kind of beauty from my "tragedy". Growing up I started to realize many of these problems are actually mental constructions, and my brain begins to get obsessed about orchestrating some kind of plan to solve a "problem" I manifested into existence by thought alone. These days my journal is mostly about stuff I have to do, and when I catch myself spiralling into doom I try writing about things I CAN do, or about things I usually take for granted like family members, sensorial memories, long time friends, and it feels very good. The other day I clipped a drawing my little niece made of me into the journal, things like that fill me with confort in stormy times.
I kneel
>can't handle a little agony and isolation
Get used to it c**t, also just write through the pain, your brain wants to get it out so let it, and then burn it. This is a common practice in reiki healing
>a zoomer enters the thread
You weak, effete little homosexuals have nothing to write about anyway.
you put words down on an internet post and you can put that instead in a journal then you would be journalling
Twitter
>hardbroken
I used to journal about my day, how I felt about work and people around me.
I did it for a year, and reading it afterwards made me realized that I'm a sperg and I should value family and friends too.
yeah, hella gay sorry my niggy
i used to journal daily for the sake of practicing my handwriting
i only ended up writing about work and my handwriting didn't get any better so i stopped
it didn't work for me so it's gay
How do you journal, exactly?
You write down the date and then what you did and how you felt that day.
The more you write the bigger the gift of reading it in the future.
That's a diary. A journal is more thematic. You write about specific experiences, thoughts, prospects or whatever.
I started journaling my thoughts daily with the intention of feeding all my texts into an AI 20 years later and get an exact copy of myself that could possibly outlive me.
I got tired of it after some 6 months though. Also I feel that the thoughts I put into words are not enough to fully describe and emulate my behavior, there's too many things I feel that I can't put into words. I can tell the journal I've read X book and that Y impressed me about it, and the AI could probably read the book as well, but in reality I'll forget 90% of the book and only some specific 10% of it will leave an impression on me and affect my behavior long term, which I likely won't be able to identify in the day of my journaling.
Now I just write my thoughts once a month because it's interesting to look back to see how I used to think in the past. The only problem I have is that I find a lot of the stuff I write to be cringe.
That depends. Does OP journal?
You'll be glad you journaled ten years from now, when you can easily read through your own words and get a sense of who you were then instead of using your faulty memory. But nearly every entry will make you cringe and say "damn I was a gay."
it is the way i do it
>July 7, 2023
Today I, well that is redundant because a journal is today and of course it's "I," felt myself given over to self-scrutiny, which is admittedly another redundancy but I go on, where the expansion of consciousness is itself folding in on itself with the neutralizing of the body and this increased moral scrutiny is indistinguishable from scrupulosity whereby the mind is a moral ruler for the moral and immoral movements of its nethers and highest moments but really this self-training is an athleticism of the infinite, a tutoring in the voided mass of morality which undergoes a transformation via its refinement into its own self that is a purified and heightened form.
Yeah - no one needs that sh*t.
I started journaling yesterday and am bisexual, but would only frick twinks tho
Should I start a journal? I'll be working at sea very soon.
Everytime I journal I realize how boring my life is.
Your fingers look kinda phallic, so everything you do is kinda gay
No one really journals. It’s a scam to sell notepads.
All writing is gay. The 'you' on the page is castrated of a solid male presence. It's passively carried along by the flow of the text, existing not in its own right but only as it's recognised by an abstract imaginary interlocutor. Any signifiers of gender you attempt to pin down to the page to arrest the flow are, to that hypothesised reader who sees only the text, just another rhetorical device, another mask, on the same level as any other and as valid as any other. OR SO THE MAOIST ATHEIST GANGSTERS WHO HAVE INVADED OUR HALLS OF LEARNING WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE
Wrote one a little over twenty years ago which looking back at it I kind of sounded like what Elliot Rodger was gonna sound like
mega gay
i do it all the time
gay as in bad? no
gay as in homosexual? yes
you cannot have the homosexual without the bad. that is the point of using the word "gay" for bad things, because there is nothing as bad as homosexuality and anyone who is homosexual is doomed (aka "bad").
>there is nothing as bad as homosexuality
the most repressive thing ever said, you should chill out and accept yourself dude
Replace homosexual with sexual
I use Obsidian
Why journal when you can document your every moment with social media?
Books are gay
I switched to writing on computer in OneNote and you can sync it between computer and phone, it's generally more comfortable but feels less romantic
Someone you admire, a writer, artist, politician, entrepreneur, almost certainly kept a journal
only if you write gay shit like your feelings. i just write down the daily temperature and log new developments in the lives of the wild chickens in my neighborhood
Based. Mine is completely inward looking and almost exclusively about wanting to quit drugs and masturbation. It's been this way for a decade. Really sad to watch someone spin his wheels like this.
idk it probably is or isn't
t. Bisexual who occasionally journals
Writing in general is inherently homosexual.
So yeah.
No, having a record of everything going on is useful. I keep one for work and am working on keeping up with one for my personal life. The work one has been useful since my job includes managing some people while keeping track of my own projects. Throughout the day I'll take a minute here and there to record what I've done and who I have spoken to and what it was about. If I have an issue I can refer back to previous conversations and when I return from trips I can review the couple of weeks before I left to orient myself.
it is the way i do it.
Every time I keep a journal I can't help from overwriting. I feel that I have to write down everything I'm doing and thinking since it's the only way to keep this "version" of me alive into the future when I read it.
On an unrelated note, does anyone here struggle with dream journaling? I'm usually a pretty happy guy but the more I write down my dreams, the more I remember them and the more I realize how fricked up and stressful they are. I just don't have happy dreams. I always have to stop after a few weeks because the stress begins to carry over into my actual life since I remember them so much better. I don't know why this is but I'm curious if it happens to anyone else because it genuinely worries me a bit.
I've kept a dream journal for years. It's been one of my most rewarding projects. It's opened up a dialogue with my unconscious side that I never thought possible.
If you're having bad dreams, then your unconscious is not pleased with you. Best to figure out what these dreams are saying, and acknowledge their point of view.
Post the details here if you like, and I'll try to interpret them. Although it's a tricky thing to do for other people, and I can't promise any great insights.
I don't think my dreams are that difficult to interpret honestly, like one where my grandpa dies or one where my girlfriend is sadly calling my name and I can't reach her I think show fairly clearly that I'm worried about my grandpa dying and I'm afraid of losing my connection with my gf. But I know these things about myself already, and they're not crippling fears in my day to day life or anything. But it's all I dream about.
Just because you grasp the surface meaning doesn't mean there isn't a deeper meaning.
Jung says that our dreams draw out attention to things we're neglecting. Otherwise, what purpose do they serve?
Your girlfriend could represent Jung's Anima, which is your suppressed, deep personality.
Your grandpa could represent Jung's Wise Old Man, who is the fully-developed male personality, which has successfully integrated the Anima.
So your dreams could mean that you're neglecting your own personal development. Your Anima is aching for you to notice her, and the Wise Old Man is destined never to live if you ignore her.
The best advice I can give you is to read Jung's writings on dreams.
Eh kind of but it helps with regulating emotions no reason not to
Very gay.
The predigital equivalent of a single player minecraft server
>tfw you enjoy video games but despise "gamers"
Sounds based to me.
Are these guys gay?
> "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
> "Writing is the painting of the voice." - Voltaire
> "Keeping a personal journal is a constant reminder to reflect on our lives and seek self-improvement." - Benjamin Franklin
> "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way." - John Ruskin
> "Journaling is a voyage to the interior." - Christina Baldwin
> "The life of the mind is best cultivated through the practice of writing and self-reflection." - Michel Foucault
> "Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted." - Jules Renard
>Are these guys gay?
>Michel Foucault
gay btfo
>Are these guys gay?
>Socrates
No, but OP is.