.: Journaling: An Experience in Time Travel

"Journaling is a voyage into the interior" - Christina Baldwin

“I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it….. What’s really fun is reading your journal, like a year later, or even a month, and realizing how much you’ve changed." - Cameron Diaz

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I wrote journals before I even knew how to form the alphabet. I remember filling tiny notebooks with line after line of scribbles. Maybe they were just doodles, but it's fun to wonder if I was trying to sort out and communicate my thoughts even back then. Who knows?

Today I discovered a fabulous blog post about re-reading your journals and I was inspired to look back at some of my own. (thank you for this piece! i loved it!)

http://elfhousechronicles.blogspot.com/2011/11/statements-of-young-me.html?showComment=1321104780146#c4684984117161210657)

I recently re-discovered a diary that I wrote when I was 9 years old. It is an incredible experinence to witness the musings of your childhood self. I was taken aback by how much I am still....well... me.

then: "Lee said that I could play with Hui if I wanted but just don't come back and try to play with her after. Well I'm a little confused but I figure that if Lee likes me she will still want to be my friend . But if she doesn't that HER loss! Not mine!"

now: Wahaha! I'm still trying to figure out friendships at times. (and I can still be a little stubborn and defiant...)

then: "Well who knows? I'll just go with the flow and maybe it will end up in order."

now: "Go with the flow" is the mantra I still use today. I had no idea this has been a near life long effort.

I think my 9 year old self would be happy with who we have become.

How do you think your childhood self would see you?