Name: My Journal Collection Flip Through
Uploaded: 2017-07-17T07:57:41.000Z
Duration: 10 min 34 s
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I absolutely love putting pen to paper and letting my thoughts flow.

This is the way that I get to know myself.

Today I'm sharing most of my journal collection,

just because I think it'd be fun to just look back and see where it all started.

This is when I really started to pick up journaling consistently.

Honestly, all of my junior high years were writing

about my relationships, love, heartbreak, lots of emo moments.

and emo music, and I would write down song lyrics that spoke to me.

But at the end of this notebook, I did keep a page

So maybe that's where it started, I don't know.

Alright, this notebook is from the later years of high school.

relationships, heartbreak, relationships, heartbreak.

I kept a breakup letter I wrote in high school.

This is actually the draft breakup letter.

What I did was: I wrote it out, I gave it to my friend Tawny, and she was like,

"Okay, I'm going to highlight the parts that are too mean."

And she highlighted like 90%, and so I had to rewrite the breakup letter.

The real one is in the hands of another guy.

Alright, so this notebook is from college, my college years.

that my friend gave to me, something that she thought was sweet.

I noticed that I started to write chords and lyrics to songs.

It never really came out to anything, though.

I basically just had a lot of ideas, but never really finished anything.

Alright, this is a notebook that my friend Allen gave to me before I studied abroad in

A place to journal my thoughts as I was travelling

Italy was a place where I really got to start soul-searching

I think this is where I started to journal more and read more.

It's so funny to look back at my to do list back then, and what I was going through.

At this point I was trying to find inspiration, I guess, inspiration and guidance

on what to do with my life from here on out.

Not to lie though, those first couple weeks in Italy were really hard

because I went without finding an apartment.

So that's my receipt at the hotel I stayed at

I didn't plan on staying there that long.

I remember doodling the couples I saw there, saying how romantic this place is.

This is one of my favorite entries of all time.

Lang Lang is a pianist and he is amazing.

I was journaling in the theater, sitting by myself in the box office and being super inspired,

and I just kept flowing and flowing and flowing.

And it was really, really a beautiful moment.

I kept the ticket stub, and on top I wrote down the melody he was playing at that moment

And I kept that brochure: Lang Lang at Teatro alla Scala.

And I was still trying to write music in Italy, just trying to find inspiration and create

The rest of my entries are of my travels.

I travelled to over ten cities in those six months,

As you can see, I kept my receipts from shopping.

And I just like to keep this notebook separate, just because it's a very unique chapter

And since this, I've started to buy notebooks

whenever I travel because to me, it's like a souvenir that I can cherish for many, many

These entries are about my post-grad life, being lost, figuring out what to do,

just documenting all the random things I was doing at that time.

And all the while, I was trying to work on music.

in music, and planning out how to create my album, which I did in 2013.

This is when I was actively getting into self-help and reading a lot of books,

exploring and experimenting with a lot of different things in life.

reevaluating what is meaningful to me, what makes me happy.

This entry I wrote when I was in New York.