Do You Journal?

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I used to journal sporadically growing up. Sadly, I never stuck with it and no longer have any of my old journalings. I also kept an online journal for a while during my last few years of high school. Several years ago, I started to pick it back up again. I am not sure how many of you are familiar with "Teacher In Space," Christa McAuliffe, who tragically died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger back in 1986. As a history teacher, she believed that each and every person made up a part of history and that it was important for that this history to be recorded. With this in mind, she encouraged her students to keep journals, and even created a class at the high school she taught at about pioneering women in American history, which she got a lot of her material for from journals. I thought this was a very interesting perspective and even though I don't think the day to day happenings of my life are all that interesting or important, I still find to be a helpful way to clear my head, organize my thoughts, discover and better understand myself, and plan for the future. I also put various things in my journal such as receipts or business cards from places I've been and want to remember, pictures, greeting cards, and other various scraps. It is a great way to give these items a place so they they aren't lying around taking up space. They also provide nice visuals for the journal. I have been at it consistently since the winter of 2016 and I hope to continue. Do you journal? If so, how long have you been doing it?