27 now and I’ve been keeping journals since I was 12. Currently on journal #23
Suffice to say, it’s an important way that I document life. The pen to the page feels like a physical memory, and I started because it’s a nice release but I also don’t want to be forgotten. To journal is to create our own anthropology, even if no one reads it - I write in that way.
this!! thank you for commenting ❤️ i just counted mine and I’m on journal 10! love calling it “my own anthropology” can’t imagine not documenting my life like this
Very very interesting. In an era where moodboarding becomes nearly performative, the fact we need to keep some secrets...secret has become a near-prowess.
I started journaling in 3rd grade. I was always scared of someone reading it so i threw the journal at the end of every school year. I started journaling again in my twenties and keeping them to re-read and see how much I’ve grown and changed since then.❤️
i’m planning to give mine a re-read, i think it will explain a lot, but what i love the most about just skimming through them is being able to look back at things and think - oh i remember that day, i remember how i felt and seeing I would react completely different nowadays. you should try writing now, and maybe in a few years you can also look back at them⭐️
27 now and I’ve been keeping journals since I was 12. Currently on journal #23
Suffice to say, it’s an important way that I document life. The pen to the page feels like a physical memory, and I started because it’s a nice release but I also don’t want to be forgotten. To journal is to create our own anthropology, even if no one reads it - I write in that way.
this!! thank you for commenting ❤️ i just counted mine and I’m on journal 10! love calling it “my own anthropology” can’t imagine not documenting my life like this
Yessss!! It’s so important :)
Absolutely love how you’re put this!
Waller Bridge's quote is from perhaps the most (in)famous diarist, Anaïs Nin!
aah! should’ve known! thank you for letting me know - kind of assumed it was Pheobe’s own quote because her mind is so great haha⭐️
The idea of my journal being published posthumously was actually what got me to start journaling this past year.
Very very interesting. In an era where moodboarding becomes nearly performative, the fact we need to keep some secrets...secret has become a near-prowess.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-159249392
i’m a 17 year old only daughter. I’ll take up journaling because of this, and i’ll write like everyone’s watching :) thank you for the great read!!
best comment i could’ve gotten❤️⭐️ thank you, and journal away!
I started journaling in 3rd grade. I was always scared of someone reading it so i threw the journal at the end of every school year. I started journaling again in my twenties and keeping them to re-read and see how much I’ve grown and changed since then.❤️
I write mine for the voices in my head 😌
i wonder it i kept a journal when i was younger i would understand why my brain is wired the way it is today 🤔
i’m planning to give mine a re-read, i think it will explain a lot, but what i love the most about just skimming through them is being able to look back at things and think - oh i remember that day, i remember how i felt and seeing I would react completely different nowadays. you should try writing now, and maybe in a few years you can also look back at them⭐️