My Relationship With Journaling And My New Concept: The Quality Of Life Journaling
I Have A Complicated/Dualistic Love/Hate Relationship With Journaling.
I have started and not continued. For some reason, it hasn’t been so easy to incorporate with my other writing, so I’m doing another take on it again.
My Relationship With Journaling
So, back in my youth, I started to do a little journaling, as it was part of a Swedish class assignment. It was fun initially, but with all my other interests at the time, I couldn’t keep up with it. So, those journals are long lost; honestly, it’s been a lifetime since I did those ones.
Fast forward to the late nineties, I was single again and a father of two. I had recently started a business, a repair shop for electronics. VCRs, TVs, stereos, satellite receivers, everything that contained electronics I repaired in that shop. It was a fun time, and I didn’t lack customers to begin with, as my closest neighbor was the TV and radio shop I previously was employed by.
Then they went bankrupt, and in one beat, I lost close to 35% of my revenue. And that 35% was what I live from, so I decided to give myself a couple of months to try and ride out the storm. And at that point, I started to…