Daily Cascade

Journaling

Prompt: Journaling
Do you do any other journaling besides your WdC blog? Private or public? Why or why not? Also, what could be some helpful tips you can give to others who want to start a daily journal of any kind?

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Yes, I have four other journals but not all of them are for daily writing. The one I keep to every day is a small 3x5 inch thankfulness journal. The other is one for answering shadow-work questions. Then, another one is my personal diary. Yet another one is a fancy diary book, given to me as a gift, which has a writing prompt at the top of each page.

All my physical journaling began because I realized that what I was writing was not for me alone and I figured it was high time that I took care of myself, first. Also, all these journals are for my eyes only, not that I'd care much if anyone got a hold of any one of them, but I wanted me to be as true to my writing as I could be, even if my personal life is not all that interesting.

To begin with, I find that journaling has many functions and benefits,. Besides being a dumpster of emotions and events, it helps take the edge from strong feelings, so I don't go yakking and bothering people with my regurgitated stuff. The best thing about it, though, it helps me to see me as I am, more or less, under my surface feelings and to understand what is really going on behind them. It also helps me to see my life in its entirety and hushes up my internal critic.

Then, I look at it as a free therapy of sorts; however, I don't know how long I'll keep up with all this journaling. After all, I've stopped writing novels and even short stories. I guess, this is the time for journaling in my life. In addition, I like handwriting much better. Old dog, no new tricks, here!

Another thing is, when keeping a journal with this new ai thing and my computer, pads, and cell butting in with my writing, it feels like some machine is putting words in my mouth and into my writing before I finish typing them. This is quite annoying and it hurts my thinking process. With some machines, I can stop this, but not with others. Then, even when I can stop it, it comes back, anyway. Then, heaven forbid that I should write in a different language or use a made-up word!

All this could be because I am obstinate, but I have a few messaging friends, old like me, and they are all complaining from the same things. After all, aren't we allowed to do our own thinking!