Journaling is your best friend!

As the president of my school’s psychology club, I have had the opportunity to work with our school’s counselor on a lot of occasions, and through us talking with each other, I have gained a lot of knowledge which I can’t wait to share with you guys! And there is this one thing that she really acknowledges, and I figure that I have to tell you guys, and that is about journaling! To tell the truth, I don’t see that many people around me who regularly journal (some do, though), but as said by my school’s counselor, it is actually very crucial for you to have the habit of journaling! Before you become a bit bored with the post altogether - “I hate writing!” - I completely understand why you guys feel that way! But let me ask you one thing: do you occasionally have things in your mind that you can’t just figure out! Typically, these things will root from things like love, anger, and other factors. Whereas I do know that for a lot of things, you don’t find it hard to share it to either your families or your peers, but there are also some things that you don’t dare share to anyone else! And that is where journaling becomes very important - it can greatly enhance your mental health, actually! I know that in this age of adolescence, there are a lot of things that are going through your mind, and because of that, I believe that to be able to write things down is going to be especially important!

Through journaling, you can truly express your feelings - which is something that works for me, personally. In life, there are certainly going to be a lot of things where you can’t just express it out, and I find that journaling is a great way to get them out! Write in bold marks, I don’t mind. Use capitalized letters, I would encourage that! Please, don’t just let your feelings become bottled up - when there are just too many things going on and you can’t look at them one by one yet, then you won’t be able to manage your life out! Remember, your journal is a safe place where you can express your feelings - because you are the only person who will be able to access it. I understand that there are things that you dare share with no one (for example, when a person is secretly homosexual but is closeted, because they don’t want to be hated by other people), so please express them in your journal. You may not recognize the benefits of journaling yet, but trust me, after you start to be true to yourself through your writings, then it will be able to ease your mind a lot!

Journaling is especially great when it comes to helping you sort out your feelings. When there are just a lot of things circling and hitting you from every angle, you may not be able to comprehend each of them all, and as a result, you may become very helpless, and truly, nothing is going to be able to be achieved. When you start to write down everything that is going on in your life, you will definitely find this activity helpful because then, you are going to be able to understand what things are troubling you. And when realizing these individual issues, that is when you are going to be able to figure out what to do. Rather than running away from the problems or to get stuck in them, through journaling, you are opening yourself a path that you can navigate and walk on! And although this may sound overly optimistic - trust me, because journaling was something I value a lot. Personally, when things are getting tough in life, I often end up dumping everything I have in my mind onto the papers - not only can I through reading these lines understand what is happening in my line, but when I am able to transfer everything in my brain onto paper, I just get so much more relieved!

Lastly, journaling is a way in which you can take track of your mentality and reflect on yourself. As I have always believed: every challenge is going to come to an end, I really hope that by sorting out your life (I am being very generalized here, because as humans each of us face a different problem) you are able to move forward and get through challenges. And at this phase, by reading your journal again, hopefully you have gained something from it: typically, there will be a lesson that you can learn from reading these entries. By taking note of things that are going on, you can actually prevent the same thing from happening again, so that you have a happy and fulfilled life!