journaling

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

That right there is three years worth of journaling. I started when I was a Sophomore in college and journaled practically everyday through my Senior year. Whoa. I still can't believe that I was able to stick with it. I can remember starting diaries as a kid but I could never keep it up.

I pulled these journals out the other night while I was cleaning out our closet. I really thought that I was going to "dispose" of them. I started flipping through one of them. I opened to when I had written about walking in my college graduation ceremony. It made me laugh to read through some of the entries on my final days of school and our last hurrahs. I got a little choked up when I read my entry about moving out of the house I shared with my two friends, Jess and Sheri.

When I was in college I made Jess swear to me that if anything should happen to me, she would destroy my journals. I was kind of set on getting rid of them the other night. But after flipping through some of the books I decided that I just can't do it yet. Sure there are embarrassing parts but there is also a couple entries about Josh (right before I stopped writing). After a few months of dating I had written: "I think I'm going to marry Josh. Oh my gosh, I can't believe I just wrote that out". Ha. I can remember thinking that.

Sometimes it's nice to see where you've come from to really appreciate where you're at now.

Labels: about me, deep thoughts

posted by kimberly, 7:39 AM