I bought this One Line a Day Journal a few months ago on a whim. I'm the type of person who buys a journal, writes in it for a few weeks, or a few months if I'm lucky, and then buys another one. Usually it's because the next one is just so "cuuuuute" and I'm convinced that my memories will somehow look better in a journal with a silly owl on the front than they did in a plain black one. In other words, I have about 100 journals of various shapes and sizes, each one with only a couple of pages filled with my thoughts. When you put them all together, well, it doesn't make much sense.
So, when I picked up this little journal, I didn't really expect my fickle friendship with diaries to change. Oh, but it did. All I have to do is write one line a day for five years and I will have a book filled with memories. That's what I mean by "analog blogging". I like that this journal is real. I can hold it in my hands 20 years from now and look back on all of my memories and silly troubles. I love this blog, but it isn't exactly the place I want to share every detail of my life. I mean, opening up isn't one of my strongest qualities, it took me about five hours just to write my About Me page!
A year from now I will graduate from college. That's a scary, crazy, and beautiful statement right there. I can't believe it's coming so quickly! To have this journal with me through my final days of college and first few years in the real world will be such a wonderful thing to look back on.
Does anyone else write in a journal regularly? Or do anything else to document their memories?
I was a faithful journal keeper my senior year of high school. It's hysterical to look back on that journal now.
ReplyDeleteLike you I always buy them, write in them for a while, then forget/get busy/become bored with myself. But this format is genius!
This looks amazing, and I may need to buy one for myself and every person I know.
ReplyDeleteI started journaling in middle school and switched to only blogging sometime in high school. Sitting here 3 years out of college, I wish I had some of those later years in writing.
i am exactly the same. this one is amazing though. it really does feel like a commitment i could keep. : )
ReplyDeleteI remembered I journaled a bit one summer when I went to visit Poland for 2 months out of bordom. I remember reading it a few years later and it was all over the place, I ended up ripping out the pages, lol.
ReplyDeleteBut this looks so pretty. and I like how it only has a few lines. So you just sum up the day in a sentence. I might have to go get one.
I've actually been doing a comic a day for the past two years. (The two year anniversary was on April 22nd) I started when I was still in college. It is fun to see what worries I had two years ago, especially since most everything worked itself out.
ReplyDeleteI made a point to write about all the happy memories I had. Although a few sad days have snuck in. But I would advise you to write about the happiest, or most interesting thing that happened that day.
Every year I buy a new journal in hopes that I will fill it. I come close but I always stop after a few months and then the next year starts. A sentence a day seems manageable. Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteI first read about this journal on Camille Roskelley's blog Simplify. Fantastic!!! BTW I love the crochet envelope project very much. So cute.....
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea for a journal! I wish I had this back in college to document some of the random, everyday memories from those days.
ReplyDeleteOooh - I *really* like that idea!! I, too, have bunches and bunches of kind-of used but-not journals laying around, and a line a day sounds *so much* less daunting than a whole blank book! :) I want one!
ReplyDeleteI'm a daily journaler. well, i try to be. i write when i have something to write, and if i don't, i write crap and to do lists and notes and knitting patterns. my journal is not just memories or thoughts, it's EVERYTHING from ideas for blog posts to book reviews to pieces of my novels, to do lists, grocery lists, and everything else.
ReplyDeletei go through about one a month.
I try my very best to write in my journal, but it is usually one entry a month when I'm feeling particularly thoughtful. I'm the same with the journals though, I hardly ever finish them because I see others I like. I want to get one like yours - sounds like a great idea!
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I was never fickle when it came to journaling. Before I found blogging I thought it was the only way I was going to be able to keep up with everything I was going to experience.. 2nd grade came around and our teacher gave us our first composition book. She told us to write what we feel every day, and then at the end of the school year,if we wanted we could read some of it. A lot of my fellow students thought it was a joke, and doodled all day but I took it seriously. It was my notebook. Only mine, it was to be filled with me and I with it! I took that thing everywhere. I went to sleep with it. This feeling has stuck with me ever since. Each year I go through about 3 journals. I have a steamtrunk that keeps them all. Even though I started blogging in the 7th grade, I still keep journals. I'll Be 20 in july now, and I have two steam trunks full with journals. I'm hoping when I turn old I can get all of the journals together and get the bound into one big book, that I can pass down to my daughters and the tradition can carry on. Analog blogging is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love journals. I've kept one since I was eleven, (which was a while ago), and have much the same dilemma. This new one is SO cute! Only recently I've forced myself to finish one and it's rather satisfying. However, I'l always on the look out for a new one. They sit pretty in my shelf until I need them.
ReplyDeleteAlso, where did you acquire that darling stack of rings? I'm madly in love with them.
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I like how it makes it so easy to reflect on years past, so clever
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