What 1,000 Journal Entries Revealed About Who I Am

It’s been over 1,000 days in my journal.

I use the Day One app and I love it. Here’s the link: Day One

Now that I’ve gone almost 3 full years consecutively, I’ve noticed a lot about myself.

But it wasn’t always this way…

I started journaling in high school. I think that I was going into my freshman year and my grandmother on my Dad’s side gave me a journal that I could write in and use. At that point, I began journaling almost every night for a few years.

Eventually, I lost interest and stopped for some reason during high school.

Even when I first came to college in 2015, I didn’t pick it back up right away.

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” — J.M. Barrie

But, I don’t think you should hear it from me. Here is what some other people have said about journaling if you’re on the fence about it. I’ll share my experience with journaling.

Benjamin Hardy wrote a great piece called, “Why Keeping a Daily Journal Could Change Your Life”