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.

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[svan-1004.livejournal.com]

Why Journal?
Simply to keep track of life.
My Life.
My friends lives.
Actions, Sayings. Important events such as our return to space only to later have our fleets grounded.
It has become important to me to have one location where I can keep such activities. It allows for reflection days, months, and years later.
It allows for personal gauging of growth and even skills.
Some days the journaling is abysmal. Other days… It is inspiring.
I have used journaling to put down my feelings during Fire and ambulance calls. It has allowed me to organize my thoughts and to do a form of personal debriefing.
A Journal can be for any reason you want it to be. It just has to be.

Filtering.
1. To not offend those who would not understand where I was coming from.
2. So I do not fill up their pages with events such as… “I fed the cat today. Meow.”
3. certain activities relate to different sets of friends. I have a couple filters. One for friends within one hobby and another for all those in Ambulance or Fire departments.
4. some things are private. Everyone has thoughts or feelings at one time or another that should never be made public. To anyone. I use a PRIVATE setting to handle these.