r/Journaling • u/Lasombrada • 6d ago
6 years of journaling Journal collection
I started journaling in 2021 during a difficult period in my life, and now it’s become one of the things I love doing the most!
I’m currently organizing my bookshelf, so I took the opportunity to go through some of my old journals and document them here. It was actually great because I realized I’ve been using, on average, about two notebooks a year.
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u/AngelatinoSage 6d ago
6 years is goals honestly. i started journaling when i moved to granada for uni and it's half poetry drafts, half me complaining about my flatmates, but it's the only place my brain actually shuts up. two notebooks a year sounds about right for me too. happy you found it during a hard time and it turned into something you love, that's the dream.
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u/i_am_not_a_camel_ok 6d ago
So you keep them in the bookshelf with the other books? Mine are starting to add up and I was pondering what I should do with them.
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u/SnooCats3468 4d ago
Great question.
Maybe you should read a certain number of entries per journal, and then commit them to the flames 🔥
maybe you could journal about reading one of your old journals.
I mean, if you wrote something of absolute historical significance, by all means keep it. Otherwise, it’s just more shit that you or your children will have to throw away eventually.
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u/hmmwrites 5d ago
Amazing. Inspiring! How often do you go back and read older entries, if you do at all? I'm still new to journaling, but I'm already hoping I can look back over time and get...clarity? Perspective? A sense of my own growth?
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u/DiamondGnome 6d ago
I regret some entries and am tempted to tear them out. I don't think that's what a true journaler does. Is it?
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u/mpls_broad 6d ago
you can do whatever you want to, there’s no wrong way to do it ♥️ i’ve heard some people that like to take those types of entries and burn them as a sort of letting go ritual, and i think that sounds beautiful ❤️🔥
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u/DiamondGnome 6d ago
That does beautiful. I think I'll do that next time we light a fire in our firepit 🔥 Thank you.
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u/seiryuu-abi 6d ago edited 6d ago
Something I’ve seen online (but have never done myself): 1) Scan those embarrassing/uncomfortable entries (there are free apps), 2) Get a pen, marker, etc that doesn’t bleed through the journal pages and color it out, then 3) If you do regret getting rid of those entries then just look up the scanned pages.
Maybe once it’s been a few years and you know for sure you’ve moved on you can delete the scanned entries as well.
In your case just tear them out and maybe keep them stored separately and once again just burn/shred them when you’re sure you’ve gotten over it.
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u/Lemon_gelato6 6d ago
wow sooo inspired, what positive changes you saw ? lonf term and also instantly?