Diary

So, do you remember your New Years goals? Open your diary or notes again and reflect: Did I achieve any of the goals? Am I moving forward with my goals? Is there something that I disagree with at this moment? If you’re like me, you might also feel awkward while reading through your goals. But, do give it a try!

My commonplaces are as rhizomatic as I am. My thoughts and ideas flow and emerge in unpredictable patterns, taking on new roots at will. 

I first started keeping a diary at the age of 9. Going through old entries, I realized that while I can never fully remember everything I ever experience, my diary will.

Although many kids tend to grow out of their diary-writing days, I — on the other hand — still fill most of my nights with pages and pages of entries to this day. Even at 22 years old, I keep a diary within close range, although I have definitely graduated passed puppies and pink feathers.

As I shift to the infinite online universe, this corner of the internet is like my public diary — or, at its best, the entries I wish to share with you.

There’s a lot we don’t know about dreams, but what we can do is track them and analyze them. Here are five tips to help you start a dream diary.

When I look back on these years of college, I seem to remember most vividly the explosions of feelings: the incredible successes and the even more spectacular failures. However, if I’m more discerning, I know that most of my time was not spent in these peaks or troughs, but instead in steady moments of content or discontent, not noticing that time was passing at all. 

“Notes from my journal” is a series in which contributors share excerpts from their private journals, diaries and notebooks.

When I was about 8 years old, I realized I sucked at writing and promptly abandoned my dream of becoming a poet. But for someone who perpetually promises to never write down any of her stupid thoughts, I sure have a lot of pocket-sized notebooks.