Thoughts on my Journey Journal

            If I compare my last few entries on my Journey Journal to those made in the first days of class, a slight change in tone and writing style is blatantly obvious. As I progressed through this assignment, my writing style got noticeably “looser” and much more free and comfortable. At the beginning I was a bit apprehensive about writing my unfiltered thoughts in a Journal, imagine “what if somebody read it?”, now that would be embarrassing. But those are just negative thoughts, they’re not based on reality since I know nobody would actually read it.

By reassuring myself of that, and that I could actually feel much better if I wrote down my feelings at least once a day, I managed to open up to myself about how I feel about the things that are bothering me in my day to day life. These aren’t things I’d feel comfortable sharing with anybody I know, so it feels good to have some sort of release for the pressure that builds up, especially in a high stress place like University. My compasses also reflected this positive change. Things like tests and homework started bothering me less mentally and made my emotional score higher as well since I didn’t worry as much. Finishing this project gave me a pretty good perspective on how much a person can improve themselves by just taking the time to make small changes, such as keeping a Journal.