I know what you mean about writing down your problems making them more real, but that's what I like about it. Once they're real, I can deal with them more effectively. I was going through a difficult time last year, and I started keeping a journal - a hand-written one, not broadcast like this - and for the first week or so, I had to set aside time to write in it. After that, it was something I actually looked forward to doing, even if I had nothing of value to say. Putting the difficult stuff on paper made me ackowledge it and think about it enough to articulate it, which helped me work through it all.
Whatever works for you, that's what's important. If you don't like writing about it, don't. If you want to write about it privately, give it a try. No one will give you a hard time if you don't want to tell the whole Internet about everything that's happening. (well, I won't, anyway.)
I've taken to writing down everything I do (when I'm not too busy) and a lot of what happens, and how it makes me feel. In part it gives me a sense that I'm doing something even when it's not much, and in part it gets me to notice how I'm feeling about things. I bold the stuff that makes me feel good, and don't say much about the rest.
It seems to be a useful exercise. If you're doing it for English you'd also want to put in things like quotes, scraps of poetry, short descriptions of things...
Yes love, but you ALSO have a bad unhealthy habit of stuffing your problems and feelings. Perhaps them being more real, wouldn't necessarily be bad in the long run.
Maybe you've already dealt with the problem. But I know first-hand how hard it is to weasel practically anything about the bad in your life out of you, and heard just as much from a few others.
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Whatever works for you, that's what's important. If you don't like writing about it, don't. If you want to write about it privately, give it a try. No one will give you a hard time if you don't want to tell the whole Internet about everything that's happening. (well, I won't, anyway.)
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It seems to be a useful exercise. If you're doing it for English you'd also want to put in things like quotes, scraps of poetry, short descriptions of things...
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I ended up doing that with the journals I wrote for the first half of the semester, but I wrote all of them the night before.
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Maybe you've already dealt with the problem. But I know first-hand how hard it is to weasel practically anything about the bad in your life out of you, and heard just as much from a few others.
As always, hear to listen :)
-Devinski
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Yeeeeaah... I suck at that. I'm really good at the whole "la la la I can't hear you!" when it come to my issues.
Love you, baby.
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