“I've started keeping a journal and it's changing how I see my own life.”
A journal is both a tool for thinking and a record of a life lived consciously. What you write becomes something you can return to, learn from, and eventually pass on. The act of regular reflection is one of the clearest signs of a person taking their own life seriously.
Your Practice
Go back and read three entries from at least a month ago. What has changed? What has stayed the same? Write a short response to your past self, what you know now that you didn't then, and what you'd tell them. This practice of reading your own history makes the journal a real tool rather than just a release valve.
The Architects
“I began the writing of my Lives for the sake of others... using history as a mirror and endeavouring in a manner to fashion and adorn my life in conformity with the virtues therein depicted.”