Journals Make Life Creative

JOURNALING IS LIKE WHISPERING TO SELF AND LISTENING AT THE SAME TIME.

As soon as we hear about the word journal, the first thought, that strikes our mindis probably a secret diary,in which we would all about us, our feelings and lots more stuff related to our lives. But in the actual scenario, this is just a concept involved in the broad term “journal”. Journal could be defined as a record of activities of an individual, though the time duration between two entries could differ on the basis of the type of the journal an individual is writing. The frequency of writing the entries may range from writing the journal everyday to, writing it once in an year .

Journals makes a person’s life more creative. Travel journal gives the wings to dreams of a person as it includes all the places the writer wants to visit and when he opens the journal again for adding on to the list,it gives him a target to be achieved and hence, a motivation for him to reach up to those heights. Do you remember, “Yeh jawani hai dewani”? In the movie , bunny had a travel journal , which included all the places he had visited and also had a list for the places he wants to visit. Isn’t it a nice idea even, to keep the memories of a trip alive?

The other type of journal that comes in the list, includes a food journal, which could be the best gift for a foodie, which at some or the other time all of us are. It includes all the dishes which the writer likes and sometimes, it also includes the recipe of the food item present in the entry. “Recipe of the food item!”, all of us are quite familiar with this term, this is so because, almost every mom has at least one recipe book written by her. A food journal is often used in gym or by a nutritionist, in order to maintain the calorie intake of an individual.

When we were younger, most of us had a doodle journal with us , which was the best companion of ours, of-course after games. We had a notebook in which we used to draw whatever we imagined, including the cartoon characters, dialogues and lots more. A doodle journal is of significant importance in order to increase imagination and the artist that lies beneath every one of us.

Pregnancy journal turns out to be one of the most beautiful journal of a mother’s life. As the saying goes,” the day, the child is born, a mother is born”, but this is not it , the path of becoming a mother, is the best experience anyone can experience. The feeling of the first kick by the baby inside, till the mood swings caused during pregnancy are the best moments, to be felt by someone. Pregnancy journal is also helpful in women forgetting things, due to “pregnancy mind syndrome”.

Newspapers and the gazette are also the various types of journal. The gazette is a public journal, which is authorized by the Government of India, in response to, any affidavit given in the court. The newspapers enables the readers to know about the current status of the country and various matters going on in it.

Benefits of journaling includes, reduction in stress, increment in imagination and improvement in memory. It also helps the writer to maintain an organized style of by maintaining a daily journal. All of us should start writing a journal and I am pretty sure that we would soon develop a habit of it, which in turn, give direction to your life learning from the past mistakes , which could be seen by the daily journal written and also would help in making our ideas more concrete .

WE WRITE TO TASTE THE LIFE TWICE, FIRST OF ALL, IN MOMENT AND THEN IN THE RETROSPECT.