Do You Have a Journal?

No?
Well, get one.

I don't care whether it's a blog, a spiral notebook, word documents saved onto a secret file on your computer, a leather bound book with your name on it - if you don't have a journal you will never regret starting one.

Why?

Let's say a few years pass you by. Let's say you forget what you wanted in life, you become sad and distressed. If you kept a journal, if you kept reminders of the days where everything seemed worth it, you will struggle less. You will learn to see happiness.

What if you were already sad? I can personally say that writing something in a journal (whether the emotions portrayed be anger, sadness, distress, sorrow, loathing, etc...) will make so much more of a difference. You will learn to forgive more easily, and forget those things that cause you to live day by day in darkness.

So, get a journal.

Start anywhere. It could be a random collection of slips of paper with memories engraved permanently on them. It could be a collection of pictures, small notes in your cell phone, emails to yourself....

Start a journal.

You will thank yourself in the long run.