I’ve Been Journaling For 6 Months. Did It Help?
The Pros and Cons of This Famous Routine
It’s all Medium’s fault.
After I joined this amazing platform, I’ve started to read a lot of articles in which people would talk about their journal habits.
Most of them (or all of them) said it had helped them. How? To think better, to take better decisions, to relax, to have a conversation with themselves, to plan the next day or just to keep a record of their lives.
These experiences made me want to start my own journal. I didn’t know exactly what my goal was, but I was sure I wanted it to make me feel better and to achieve a state of peace in my mind.
Changes were part of my life at that moment. I’d just moved to another country, I was looking for a new job and all the questions that can pop up in a 23-year-old’s mind were attacking me.
Did it help? Was it worth? What happened? Here’s my experience…
I took the first step
As I said, I was a foreigner seeking for a new life. Money was not a big issue but I just couldn’t spend whatever I wanted to. So those $5 I spent on the journal were a little bit painful.
I went to the shop and spent about 20 minutes there.
