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7 Reasons Why You Should Probably Start Keeping A Journal

The one habit you'll never actually regret.

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7 Reasons Why You Should Probably Start Keeping A Journal

1) You’ll appreciate it later.

Later can mean 10 years from now, two months from now, or next week. Regardless of how long it takes to peek into the pages that hold your past, you’ll be thankful for the memories that reside in your words.

2) It makes you a historian of sorts.

Whether your journal consists of your day-to-day trials, or you write once a month about that super special something that happened to you, you’re documenting history, specifically from your point of view. And that’s something that literally only you can do. Which is pretty freaking cool.

3) It’s timeless and classy AF.

People have been keeping “diaries” since the beginning of time, and it’s one of those fads that never goes out of style. As humans, we have this super cool ability to have our own thoughts and emotions, and recording them in a journal is definitely something that will never not be special.

4) It’ll be as unique as you are.

Decorate the cover, write poems and songs, draw pictures of unicorns or apples or bridges or whatever makes you happy. Fill it with song lyrics relevant to your life, tape train and concert tickets inside, have your best friends write letters to you randomly throughout. Whatever you do, it’ll be 100% you, and 150% kickass.

5) It basically becomes one of your best friends.

That sounds super lame, and I get that, but you’d be surprised at just how attached a person can become to a collection of leather bound notes. Especially if you have one small enough to carry in a pocket or purse; it’ll go everywhere with you and you’ll probably find yourself a little unbalanced and lost if you leave the house without it.

6) It’ll make you look smarter.

Even if all you do is draw scribbles of cats, people just assume that you’re intelligent and sophisticated if they catch you writing in a journal, especially in public. So go on. Trick the world. Be that quirky nerd you’ve always wanted to be.

7) You’ll actually become a better writer.

Just by jotting a quick entry down every so often, you can vastly improve your writing skills and discover your “voice”. So whether you're a journalism major or have kinda always hated english class, you can now identify yourself as a "writer". Which is seriously awesome.
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