I'm Cheating...Are You?

Im cheating...on my journaling that is! 

Yes this is one of the those titles that was supposed to lure you here!

Did it work? If it did..keep on reading...

Recently I was re-reading some of my diary journal entries 

and realized since I started blogging 

I've been a bad diary journal keeper.

 I am not sharing my mundane thoughts in my diary journal as I would like...

and that makes me take a pause and say: mmhm...

I keep wanting to refer to it as a diary but that was so grade 5...

so i will do my best to refer to it as a journal...

i have kept a diary journal since elementary school 

and for as long as i can remember always wrote in it at least a few times a week. 

But my diary journal is hearing crickets...dead silence.  

Seriously my last diary journal entry reads 10/10/11 and a few sentences.

Sadly I've been neglecting the collector of my thoughts. 

I dont use blogging as a way to share all of my dark and deepest secrets...

that would be oversharing, 

inappropriately wrong 

and uncomfortable for my readers.

 But blogging has replaced in large part the relationship i share/d with my journal. 

And that makes me sad a little.  

The mundane and random thoughts in my journal reflects 

moments in my life which are important and signficant.  

Blogging is a fantastic outlet however it's not the best venue 

through which i feel most comfortable sharing all my darkest, deepest thoughts

(see reasons above)!

As a result of this realization, i am re-committing myself to 

spending some quality time journaling my thoughts at least once a week. 

 I will refrain from stepping out on my diary journal

 and remember the strong bond we shared with one another. 

 Before blogging, my diary journal and i would share quality time together,

 most nights where i wrote and wrote and he would just allow me to be...and share  

Yes, my journal was a he...i don't really know why it's a he...

he was just an awesome listener!

  Journaling has helped me through many difficult times

 and I cannot/shouldn't turn my back on  it! 

I need to remember my love for journaling. 

 I journal because sometimes it's not emotionally/spiritually healthy 

to live in my mind with my own thoughts. 

 I journal because i get to experience my deepest and darkest thoughts 

reflected back to me in my own words. 

 And there is something empowering about that.  

Journaling helps me to change my perspective.  

Journaling helps me to grow as an individual, woman, wife, friend.  

I journal because i get to re-read entries about meeting and falling in love with Mr. Pancakes. 

 So much raw emotions... 

And that's reason enough to continue.  

Questions of the Day:

Anyone else experiencing the same issues?!

Do you continue to journal?

Or like me are you cheating with blogging?

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