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 don’t read past entries often, but it is definitely good to have them, in case I want to look back at something it could contain some details that I completely forgot about. It also helps remembering when something happened, since every entry has the date on it.