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Every year I go out to buy a lovely leather journal thinking I'm going to utilize it. After two entries, I put it aside, thinking that later a will write more. I month passes before I write my next entry. After that, 4 months, and so on. I tried doing this for at least five years now because I always thought it would be great to look back in my journal when I'm older. It never worked out. I just can't keep a journal. Recently, I came up with a brillant idea to suit me, an idea book. All the time I'm getting these weird ideas from things I hear and see. Till this point, I let them pass. Now, everytime I have a interesting thought I whip out my idea book to jot it down. This idea works best with a small book you don't mind shoving into the corner of your backpack. I also put short thoughts/things going on in my life at the time, but it is mainly my crazy ideas.
It is better to be pissed off than pissed on.
I love my idea book. Whenever I run into a thought that is too large to be thought at once I whip out my idea book and write it down.
The problem with my attempted journal is that I don't want to invest time to fill it with everyday stories, and whenever something exceptional and very personal happens I don't trust the paper enough to tell it my story.
'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion
I don't trust the paper enough to tell it my story.
Having visions of Jaz holding a knife to his journal whilst threatening it...sort of harry potter style, without the ink spurting out and the evil dude looking like he belongs in Beauty and the Beast.
-mel
Look at me! I'm a prostitute robot from the future!
I keep one. And I write in it (almost, very few exceptions) everyday, and have been doing so for the past 2 years.
It's become something of an addiction for me. I feel like I'll cease to exist if my memories aren't remembered. I feel like once I'm dead and gone they'll be the only thing keeping me alive, saying that once upon a time I actually existed.
I think generally it helps with self-examination as well. I realise how stupid or conceited I've been about something a few days later.
It also helps my general writing skills.
Which world is Plato in?