A Journal for My Thoughts
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
United States
February 20, 2017 9:08pm CST
About two weeks ago I purchased a journal. Of course the cover caught my eye.
I have tried keeping a journal at different times in my life and failed to keep it updated. This journal also has pictures to color and I hope to keep myself amused while I enter a line or two.
I have only made one entry since purchasing the journal. The second I will make tonight.
Do you keep a journal? Do you post every good, bad, or ugly moment?
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
21 Feb 17
When I was 7 I started keeping a journal. I wrote it in every night until my second baby was born and I just didn't have as much time. I was always writing online so I didn't feel I needed to write in a journal. The one site so wrote on for along time was gather. It had so many of my daily memories with my kids and my late husband. I never saved copies and the site stopped paying and deleted all posts. I was so upset and years later I still am!
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
21 Feb 17
Wow that would be heartbreaking to lose all those posts and we're so dear to you.
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@shaggin (71666)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@Happy2BeMe It really was and still bothers me. I can't get those memories back and really wish I had saved a copy. I started saving a copy of what I write to a folder on my computer so that I won't lose all those memories again.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@shaggin I too wrote on Gather, and my mother did as well. I was saddened to not be able to find any of her writings and she did so many. I would have loved to find them so I could print them off for my siblings and other family members.
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@bluesa (15023)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly , I used to keep a journal, but then I never had time to sit and write out anything, so I stopped. When I did keep one, I wrote down my thoughts and experiences of the day. I hope you enjoy keeping your journal.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
I am going to write only positive thoughts. The negative thoughts only cause pain.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
22 Feb 17
I said I would practice my handwriting with a journal... I still have yet to open it :D
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
23 Feb 17
@infatuatedbby well, at least I have one entry in mine.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
23 Feb 17
I have problems still. I keep telling me that I would write more in the one I have, and still need to get motivated.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
23 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly Me too! I haven't opened my book since I bought it , months ago!
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@cmoneyspinner (9221)
• Austin, Texas
22 Feb 17
The blogging I do (all over the web) is my substitute for keeping a journal. Not that I ever used to keep journal anyway. 
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
I have always liked the idea of putting my thoughts onto paper.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
@cmoneyspinner the voices in my head keep me going in the right direction. No need to worry about what others think.
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@cmoneyspinner (9221)
• Austin, Texas
22 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly - Writing is a good thing. It's very therapeutic. However ... a word of caution ... you may derive benefit from writing... but someone could read what you've written and ... if they don't have your best interests in mind ... they could do or try to do some "unwholesome things" to you. So you might want to keep your thoughts "protected" or away from prying eyes. You don't want nobody messing with your head.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@LadyDuck I'll grab my journal in a minute and write a few lines in it. Keeping it all positive this year.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I forgot to write in the journal last night. Lay my head on my pillow and poof, I was off to dreamland.
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@LadyDuck (458142)
• Switzerland
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly I also forgot to write some important things in my agenda, but I did a few minutes ago.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Feb 17
I never was good at it, I think here is my journal really
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
I go back to read the old posts I made 10 years ago and some make me smile. Some I delete. It is like ripping out a page of a journal that you had written, but now want to forget.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
@Jessicalynnt I thought I deleted posts from when I was with my ex and then something pops up in the "on this day" group. They make me growl and I delete them.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
22 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly yeah I had to do that a bit with facebook, stuff with the X keeps popping up, I deleted things when I can.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Feb 17
I used to keep a journal and did so for many years. Helped me to remember things that transpired since my memory was so bad. I don't keep one any more.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I want one that can be passed on to my children and grandchildren too.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly .....That'll be nice.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly I do keep a journal.But the thing is I am not very consistent.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I am not consistent either, but if I can write in it even on special days, it will be a good thing.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly At least a paragraph daily or even twice a week.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 Feb 17
No I just am not into it and I guess I don't feel the need, I have tried lol without success!!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I too have tried to keep one in past years. But, now that my mother is failing, I see the need to keep one and write positive thoughts that my children may enjoy reading in years to come.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
@BelleStarr never thought to do a blog. However, I prefer pen and paper. That way my words are in my own handwriting. A double gift to my children and grands.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly What I did was start a private blog on Boggger for my kids with stories from my childhood, stories my mother told me and things they would never know otherwise. I add to it when I think of anything that I think they should know.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
2 Mar 17
The only journal I keep is the one that lives with our camping gear. From day one over 30 years ago we have written down everything we have done and enjoy looking back into the years when our children were little.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
2 Mar 17
I wish I had kept a journal of when my children were young. It would make for fun reading now that they are older.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
Of course I had to get the one with the butterfly!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
@DianneN it is in the stand at the moment, hiding out.
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@DianneN (246838)
• United States
22 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly But of course! I hope it's not elusive!
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
21 Feb 17
It's a beautiful journal. Once you get in the habit of using it, it will become routine. I use to have one as a teenager and I wrote everything in it, the good, the bad and the ugly. I have never had one as an adult.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
Years ago when I wrote in one, it was mostly the bad and ugly. My goal is to write the good thoughts. These hopefully will be kept and shared with my children and grandchildren.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
21 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly I think that is a wonderful idea.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
1 Mar 17
That is why I am keeping only the positive thoughts in this journal.
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@Aushaw (880)
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21 Feb 17
I don't keep any journal but I believe it is good to keep one. Good luck for this one. Hope this time you make it to the end of the last page of your journal. I have never heard of a journal having pictures to color. Looks like you will have fun with your journal book. Then this time when I go to stationary market I will search for that kind. I can git it to my friend.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
They do make a nice gift as well.
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@Aushaw (880)
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22 Feb 17
@ElusiveButterfly Yes, after you described it. I felt that.
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I have notebooks I have taken notes in for Business, Church etc and many times will also Write down some of my thoughts and such with them to read later that will help in other things. But have not personally wrote in just a journal in yrs.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
22 Feb 17
I had one that I wrote in everyday. When I read it a few months later, I shredded it. There was a lot of negative thoughts. This journal will be filled with only positive thoughts.
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I want to have something to pass on to my children when I leave this world. Found that it is important to leave behind positive thoughts and words. Trying to keep the negative at bay.
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
I wrote on Gather many years ago. So did my mother. I wanted to find some of her writings and because the site shut down, they are lost.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
23 Feb 17
I never had a diary in my youth. But, I had friends who had one and I was envious!
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
21 Feb 17
The pages will come alive when color is added to them. Also very calming too.
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