I’ve realized that I rarely look back at past entries. Journaling, for me, is a way of processing what I’m thinking about and feeling in the present, so I try to let it flow out of me with zero planning or rereading. I’m wondering if anyone here refers back to old entries when writing new ones, or even uses old entries to analyze trends over time. What do you do with the longer view?
I have made about 5 entries, in the last ~2 years. The first few are so incoherent stream-of-consciousness that reading them didn’t feel valuable anymore. Then there’s the one where I come out as specifically gay to my dictionary, and the latest one at least 6 months later in which I comment on the previous. Maybe i’ll write another entry soon.