Starting journaling after a break

[independence1776]

I know this community's been dead for a while (the last post was in 2013!), but I figured I'd try.

Due to Darth Real Life, I stopped journaling (even though it was stuff I should have been journaling about) and I'd like to start again. But I feel a bit strange just starting up again. I want to summarize what happened over the past couple of years and yet making time for that seems cause procrastination, so I don't do any journaling at all.

Does anyone have any advice on how to start journaling again?

Comments

[arliss]

It was a seven year gap for me, during which I lost a child, a parent, and moved cross country to an entirely new environment. I kept thinking "I should chronicle this" as I was going through it, but it was simply too much to try and sort enough to write about.

Eventually I abandoned the paper journal I'd been keeping--it's about three-fifths full, and I hope eventually to fill those blank pages with even partial memories and thoughts of those years and events.

But I started in a new blank book, from that moment, and just moved forward. For me it was the only way to go. I'm not back into regular, or even frequent, journaling yet. But I hope to regain that practice by, well, practice.

[independence1776]

I'm sorry for your losses.

I did think about starting a new book, but I'm a completionist so having the half-blank book would drive me up a wall.

I hope you get back into practice, too.