Today

[echorox]

Well, in the past this journal has more or less been about me in regards to what was at once my only audience member, Ashley. This was both good and bad, in that i always knew who would be reading it but i was never very honest. I mean journals are supposed to be a record of one's day, but to this point you find very little of that. I think

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There is never a boring Journal.

[pixiestars]

I think the idea of a journal is to just be yourself. And if you write just for one person, in all reality, your still being yourself. I don't believe you can lie in a journal. I mean you can say you went to Africa, but it's just a journal and it's your journal, no one can call you a liar. Journals can be fictional, realistic, or Erotic. I bet your not surprised I used that one. Anyway, You should write whatever you want, I think that is what makes it so special. When I read my live journal from four years ago it makes me laugh to know what kind of person I was, even if I was writing with or without an audience. I would try not to be boring and sometimes I just didn't care. Anyway, I think if you stop your journal you might regret it, and not for a long while, but when your 45 and can't remember certain days that use to mean so much to now. And if you're worried about an audience and being judged, lock your journal. I really think you need to keep it up for yourself.

to be honest

[lomervyn]

I have 2 journals

this one is for fictional, vague entries

sometimes I go deep but im very vague as to who has hurt me or who has made me really really happy

i have another one which is depressing,angry, hurtful to both me and others
so i list all the thoughts as private so as not to come across

i think we all have thoughts that are alright to share and others where its just better to keep them to ourselves
but expressing them in some kind of outlet form is healthy
i wonder how many lives i have saved since starting my journal

PLUS YOU ARE A VERY GIFTED WRITER
i wouldnt want to lose u now that i have found u :)

hope it gets better

Re: to be honest

[echorox]

Well, both of you are right. And thanks for the compliment lomervyn :) I guess i am not a very open person in general so its hard for me even in a private journal to be so. I spend alot of time bottling up things i think or feel, not from others, but myself, and i don't even know if i can be honest when my audience is only me. Its ironic really, because so often i feel trapped in my own mind replaying arguments that are over and done with. I will probably continue here, but in what capacity i am still clueless. It will probably change day to day.

Thanks again for the help ;)