Journaling Venture

A journaling venture is a season in your journaling practice that you recognize as distinct.

These ventures are often marked by noticeable shifts — like a change in tone, the start of a new journal, a shift in subject matter, or a new approach. (Whatever you feel makes it distinct).

This was important to name because we named "chapters" of our lives. What are those for a journal?

I can't call them a a chapter because the journal is doing something that living isn't.

The recorded experience isn't the same as the experience itself....

When I look back at a journal entry, and when I look back at a memory, I see them as two different things. I feel them and relate to them in different ways.

Life is the moment. The journal session is how I feel about the moment, and when I reflect I think about how I interpreted the moment. These are all different layers.

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Things get very meta with journaling. I think what happened is important, but what I think is more important is how you percieved it. Your perception is your reality.

A friend not calling you on your birthday could mean they forgot or it could mean they were busy. Did you percived that you were unimportant in their life or do you percieve they still love you, and the "happy birthday" call doesn't matter?

In this "chapter" of your life, you had a birthday and your friend, for whatever reason didn't call.

In your journaling you discuss friendship dynamics.

In this journaling venture, you learned more about what you need to feel love by the people in your life. You learned that your birthday is a big deal.

Going forward, you decided to plan your own birthday celebrations and invite your friends. Because you learned this was important to you, you now afford your friend the opportunity to show up for you so that next year if they forget, you remember instead that they showed up for you the year prior and no love was lost.