Why journal

[meirwen_1988]

I've been working on a project now, trying to set up a journaling unit for my Fall semester students. As part of it I'd like them to read about why journaling can be a choice, not an assignment, so I was hoping some of my fellow bloggers would post (either as comments to this post, or in their own journals) about why they journal, and maybe about how they choose who gets to read what they write.

I'd like to be able to cut and paste parts for my students to read, though. I would give authorial credit to your LJ name, in which case I'll use Anon.</>

Thanks.

Comments

[sokmunky.livejournal.com]

Journaling and blogging are different. To me, journaling implies a private action, and blogging is public. In other words, journaling involves the use of pen and paper, or files not published on the net. Blogging, even under a privacy filter, is still public. Filtering implies privacy, but anything on the web is available to someone.

Journaling is an activity that expands. Writing down your daily thoughts and actions allows you to evaluate situations and make decisions. It can be used to modify behavior, plan for the future, track your dreams, fantasize, document conversations, think.

Blogging contracts life. It makes opinions and stories from everywhere available here and now. It's like a million people standing on soapboxes, screaming out their importance at the top of their lungs. You get to choose who you listen to, but you really can't choose who listens to you.