Back to Basics

Starting officially yesterday, I went back to writing my thoughts down on a notebook. Most of the time, when I am sitting in front of the PC already, I tend to go blank--as what I have repeatedly mentioned in some of my posts here. When I am alone, staring blankly at nothing, my thoughts just wanders off like the river and disappears into the great big blue. 

Of course, I would still update this blog every now and then to share some of my obscene thoughts of my daily agendas. 

One of the reasons why I went back to writing on a notebook--rather, journal--is because I don't want to lose my ingenious thoughts to nothing. There were a lot of instances wherein my brain went beyond of its comfort zone and I did nothing to jot them down whatsoever. Thus, I have decided to keep a notebook handy so that when my brain is in its peak of intelligence, I can write that thought down and never lose it in the air. 

Also, I was inspired to go back to "journaling" again after reading a full-spread about it in one of the Kris Magazines that ate has. It says that "blogging" is a lot more different than journaling. 

Blogging makes you write stuff focusing on a specific audience (if there is one) and that you have to, somehow, limit your thoughts to a certain level wherein you have to entertain your readers in one way or another; while

Journaling on the other hand is more personal. One can let his guard down and be one with himself. When one is writing on a journal, he can be himself totally without keeping in mind the possible readers that could somehow catch a glimpse of his life through his write-ups being shared to millions around the world. 

In fact, I agree to that opinion. It is a lot different when one is blogging online. Sure, it comes with incentives like being able to jot down thoughts a lot faster with the help of the keyboard and ditch the painful scribbling on paper as well as being able to publish your write-ups like it really is a book, reaching out to thousands of aspiring writers and journalists out there. 

Journaling on the other hand is somewhat personal--really. Your journal is your doorway to your very own soul. Your journal is your own personal trunk of memories that in the near future, can somehow make you smile and relieve yourself from the stressful and tiring labyrinth-like adventures of life. When one writes down on a journal, he/she can be him/herself without the actual remorse of being able to say something stupid online where there are thousands of people trying to be themselves as well. 

I have had my own share of having a journal in the past but somehow, I always come down to a point where I would lose the gusto to write on it and end up losing the notebook that on the latter, would make me start all over again. But nevertheless, I am no newbie when it comes to journaling. 

This time, I would like to start all over again--and somehow, in the future, would end in a conclusion that would make me totally feel satisfied with what I have done for the past 22 years of my existence here on Earth--and counting. 

Actually, I don't feel that both blogging and journaling differ from each other--from my perspective that is. When I write something down, I become who I really am inside, not afraid of anything else in this world and be free to express myself in ways that seems right to me. 

Journaling to me is like going back to basics. Writing down on a piece of paper using a pen and sharing your thoughts to yourself and learn from them in the most possible way--same thing as blogging; you share your thoughts to yourself but, there are others who also wants to share a little bit of what they think which will somehow help you improve and achieve your goals in a different light.

And that is just it...