"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters;
and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say."
Virginia Woolf
Writing is important just for the sake of writing. It is a tool for allowing the mind to drizzle repressed emotions out onto the page. It is a safe place to leave our anger or bitterness. Our personal writings do not need to be grammatically correct nor do they need appropriate punctuation. The long standing black and white composition book works just as well as a fancy journal.
Too often, an individual hampers a unique flow of thoughts by simply worrying about how the words sound or what others will think of what is being said. This consideration has importance when professionally writing, but when we are expressing ourselves for personal recording, we have freedom of slang, fragments, and open ended sentences.
There is great pleasure in revisiting an old journal to rediscover our words, but and to see the little sketches or quotes that mirror our then space in time. It is interesting to see how much we have expanded or transitioned from a controlled way of thinking to a broader sense of the world. Our writings reflect the multiple sides of the self and our dedication to overcoming challenges presented before us.
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