After reading The Happiness Project, I reexamined my reservations about keeping a journal. I mean the offline kind, writing unedited thoughts on paper for an audience of one. I have never formally kept a journal which is uncharacteristic for someone who likes notebooks and pens and writing a lot. I would sometimes write random stuff down but throw them away afterwards, after tearing the pages into little pieces to make sure they are unreadable. The closest I've probably come to journaling is my old blog on blog-city, in the early 2000s. I was a lot more open and carefree with what I posted then and was undaunted even if I knew friends read them. Then blog-city became a paid service and I discontinued it. So, what about this blog? I censor myself here and really prefer to keep the site mostly drama-free. So it's not the whole picture. We have a normal life and by that I mean we have struggles, disappointments, and not-so-good days, too, ...