10 things i hate about keeping a journal.

Okay, I LOVE keeping a journal. It helps to keep my thoughts in order, and is often the only way that I can get things out. But sometimes, there are just things that I HATE about it...

1. i have absolutely no idea what to do with journals once i have written in them. i have seriously considered burning them, but everyone tells me not to do it! apparently you are supposed to just leave your most personal thought lying around hoping no one reads them, and then come back to them later on in life to "see what you've learned." ha, no thanks.

2. you can't even READ used journals. most of the time, my thoughts come out in a big long sentence that doesn't make any sense and it's completely full of bad grammar, misspellings, and poor handwriting.

3. a good journal is very hard to find. i am very picky about what my journal looks like. i'm not one of those people that just use notebooks. no, no, no. i am that person in barnes & noble going through every single journal they sell. i have to look at the cover; whether i want leather or not. Color; polka-dotted, striped, or embroidered. Size; big, small, or medium. Paper; lined, not lined, recycled, linen, that weird organic paper that no pen on earth can write on... Yeah. it's a pretty detailed process for me.

4. it takes FOREVER for me to fill up a journal. depending on which size i get, (and how often i write) filling up a journal could take me years. my last one only took a year for me to fill, but some of them cover a span of three whole years! that's a lot of writing!

5. when i have huge gaps of time in my journal. this one goes hand in had with #4. there are times when i just get too busy, or nothing exciting happens in my life, so i don't write at all. somtimes i'll go months without writing a single entry and feel like i have to cover all the lost time. it's kind of sad sometimes though, i have missed some good memories that should have been documented.

6. when i really want to write something, but there's nothing to talk about. most of my entries consist of my trip to the grocery store that day. Seriously! i really enjoy writing in my journal, but sometimes i just don't know what the heck to write about!

7. when my hand freaking cramps up from writing too fast/too much. there are times when i just get really excited about things, and there always seems to be a mad dash to get it all down. apparently i can't get it down fast enough cuz most of the time my hand cramps up!

8. i don't always finish my entries... Okay. this one is just me being lazy, but i hate it. I do all of my journal writing right before bed time, so if i'm really tired and in the middle of writing something, i'll just drop it where i am and leave it. unfortunately, (because of the way my brain works) i can't seem to just leave off where i started. so i just leave it unfinished.

9. you can't travel with a journal. people freak out when your somewhere other than your bedroom and your writing in your journal. it makes people uncomfortable. i don't get it.

10. WHEN PEOPLE ASK TO READ YOUR FREAKING JOURNAL. this is why i write/hide it in the privacy of my own room. what are we in 8th grade?? NO. you may not read my most personal thoughts...

till the page is full,

lindsey.