Illusion

Towards the end of January, I started to write daily entries of my day in a little notebook. The biggest reason why I wanted to do this was because: 1.) My memory has been terrible and I want to be able to remember days of my life, 2.) To remind myself of things such as mistakes, 3.) To see progression of my writing and living, and most importantly 4.) Not only to cherish past events, but also to feel how fast time has went by. The fourth one is kind of strange, but I've been journaling to my advantage. Although I should relax and let time pass by slowly.. I sometimes want it to go by fairly quick. It's an illusion I decided to try for myself and it's working quite efficiently.

Journaling so far has been going pretty good. I'd forget to do some entries, but I would make up for it the next day. Unfortunately, I've caught a similar issue as my blog: becoming less thorough and having shorter entries. It's a disappointment, but I hope it's only temporary. I usually have shorter entries due to my uneventful days. I haven't been seeing much progress so far, but hopefully it's building up slowly. I would throw in a couple of new vocabulary or even write some sentences in a different language to keep my journaling a bit more productive. I also wanted to start drawing a few doodles in there... but it hasn't happened yet.

Keeping a journal has been so beneficial to me. I wish to continue this in separate 'volumes' like one for a school year, another for the summer. It would be remarkable to look back to and it just gets me really excited. Last summer was so great for me, but I was unable to recall everyday which gets me a bit down. I'm really looking forward to next summer so I can take advantage of journaling and bump it to the next level with pictures and drawings.