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Sunday, May 6, 2012

Brightside Entry | Journals

I've been keeping a journal since 2nd grade. One of the shelves in my room is full of journals--I've got around 2 per year so yeah, that's a lot of scribbling. Although admittedly ever since I started this blog, this year's journal has been pretty bare. And I feel a little bad about that; I can't quite explain this guilt: it's not like anyone's forcing me to write a journal. A force of habit, I suppose?

I keep everything--old letters, cigarette butts, course cards (back when MLS didn't control our lives). My sister calls me a hoarder and my mother has accused me of being an over-sentimental fool. But yeah. I can be pretty introspective so I like looking back at how I used to think; it's interesting. And I have this sneaking suspicion that we can only look at ourselves in retrospect--everything is a little bit in the past. It's not that we choose to live in the past, to a certain extent, we can't seem to help it.

Anywho, tonight I went out with Joy, Murphy (who modeled for the giveaway) and my darling Kiki. Dinner + Gong Cha--seriously, there is too much caffeine in my system. Hay. Anyway, I bought this beautiful sketch pad + a calligraphy pen and I'm doing a journal decoration DIY on Tuesday. :) So sorry for the lack of photos for this post. Here are a couple of doodles from past journals:

I used to be obsessed with John Lennon--I spent a whole summer watching the "Imagine: John Lennon" DVD and reading the Lost Lennon Interviews all day. Not kidding.

I think this movie is one of the most well-written movies about love. It shows the grit of relationships and how infidelity isn't a bullet through the head but a dull knife thrust over and over again into an almost broken heart.

This was from my journal when I was 16. I'd been going through my first break up then and this is all terribly funny to read now--especially because I was upset over a break-up with someone who tried to strangle me. It all seems so far away now but it's nice to have proof that these things happen. :)

Anywho, goodnight everyone! <33

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