Journaling

My blog is a journal of sorts. It's my place one the internet where I can go back and read the things I have shared with each of you. But, there are some personal life experiences I most certainly want to remember them, but I do not wish to share with the entire world.
It is fun going back and reading what I wrote from half-a-year ago. Most of the time, I'll remember something I wouldn't have  remembered if I hadn't gone back and read what I wrote about an experience.

Secondly, journaling helps my collect my thoughts. In a way, my thoughts and ideas are really choppy and fast-paced, and often times I have a hard time distinguishing between what thoughts pertain to something and those that don't. I'll use something called stream of thought. Stream of thought is is the way one thought leads to another to another. I write down my thoughts as they come. No punctuation, hardly any correct grammar, writing down the thoughts as they come. Afterwards, I can go back through the mess of words and pick out thoughts that I needed or that I think are great for the essay I'm writing. It's a fantastic way to help me organize my thoughts.

I encourage you to journal, too! If you journal, what sorts of things do you like to journal about?