What's the point of keeping a journal? Is it to keep track of your thoughts and feelings? To write down specific moments that made you happy, sad, angry? Whatever the reason might be, it's good to look back on what you have written.

When I was younger, I had a couple journals. I remember my first journal being a blue Disney princess journal. I always tried keeping up with it and write in it every day, but that never happened. I usually wrote in it at night to reflect on my day and how I felt; however, I either got too lazy and forgot about it, or wrote a couple really crappy sentences then decided not to continue on with it. A few months ago, in January, I bought a journal from Anthropologie titled "Five Year Memory Journal". I started writing in it on February 1. This journal gives you a prompt every day for every year. So as I go through every year, I can look back on all my answers and see how much I have grown as a person, or look back in five years and realize how dumb my answers were.

I am not the kind of person that likes to reminisce about the past, or like to plan my future. I just go with the flow and hope for the best. But now, as I am in college and almost hitting the BIG 2-0, I think it is time to start planning my future and for me to do something with my life. Is it too early to start thinking about the future and have goals in mind? Should my goals be long-term or short-term goals? As for the past, one reason why I do not like thinking about the past is that nothing can be changed, and it has passed already. There is no point of focusing your energy on stuff that had happened, instead, why not try spending your energy on today?

The reason why I purchased this is that in five years, when I hope I have matured from today, I can look back on my life five, four, three, and two years ago and see the person I was back then. I can create my own life chronicle and see where life takes me.