I remember a few yrs back on another forum, someone posted about makin a decision to burn their journals. I remember feeling very defensive about it and stayed away from that post. This past week it came back to me and I now understand where that person was coming from.

i have journalled for 8yrs and have journals galore in my wardrobe and use to feel so attached to them. This past yr my journalling has lessened, I'm more able to work hins hrough in my head now, I journal occassionally. But he need to keep them has gone, they use to feel like such a safety blanket, the though of throwing them away was unbearable, but now? i feel that safety blanket comes from me, from within so I've decided this wkend to say goodbye to them. when I think back to that persons post now I understand.

Some say they'd like their journals to be read by others when they've gone, that thought makes me cringe, I'd never want anyone to enter that crazy world I wrote about.