Friday, January 25, 2008
17 Journals to 1
Right before I got married I started to consolidate all of our possesions which included our over abundance of books. Going through all the stacks and shelves led me to finding all of my journals from the time I was in high school through my return to Atlanta in 2001. I found there were 17 journals total of varying shapes and sizes. Now before you go thinking that I was some incredible journaler from a young age, you should know that I have a terrible habit of buying new journals and not using the whole thing. And so... there I stood staring at all of these journals that took up an entire shelf on the bookcase. I knew that only 1/10th of each was used and I estimated that they would probably condense down to just one hefty sized journal if I were to compile them. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but I broke the spines of all 17 journals, extracted the pages, ordered them chronologically and bound them with a big red rubber band. At that moment, something amazing happened! I started to read my journal entries again... because they were all together I could flip through years and years of notes without carrying around a giant stack of journals.
Today I went through again and was amazed at my journey and the change in my maturity and confidence over the years... I even found a list of all of the cities I visited during my 3 years on theatre tour... Sometimes just a small change can affect the usability of something you've had forever.
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