This isn't it.  This is at least my third attempt at a journal.

My first journal (that I can remember) was started when I was in Kindergarten.  Someone thought it was a good idea, and I somehow ended up with a small booklet with which to write things down.  I was pretty enthusiastic about it for about two days, before losing interest and motivation.  I know because I found the booklet a while back, and read the two gigantic, multi-page entries, which was followed by empty pages spanning the rest of the booklet.

My second journal (that I can remember) started in 2004.  It was summer at the time, and I suppose I could see the end of my high school years coming, as I was about to enter 12th grade.  It would be the last year of my years of a fairly consistent lifestyle of waking up in the morning, of going to school, of hanging out with friends, going to classes, eating lunch at the cafeteria, going home in the afternoon, studying and playing, and sleeping.  Something like that.  I didn't want to forget the feeling, or I wanted to be able to relive the feeling in case I did forget how it felt, which I could imagine happening.  And so I started it.  Fortunately, I stuck with it all the way until 2008, when I graduated from college.

Then, I went to the Full Time Training in Anaheim for two years.  I don't know whether the things I wrote down at that time can be considered a journal, as they were more spiritual in nature.  Though, this is not to discount what I wrote or what I felt at the time, because those have been some of my most honest and deepest thoughts.

Finally, we have this, which I started in February, 2010, as I started making my blog from scratch.  Anyways, earlier today, I dug up my second journal, and have been thinking about uploading the entries.  Not sure though whether I'll make them public or not.  Maybe eventually, I'll combine all of them in a string here.

Recently, I also found a few videos that we did in high school.  I remastered one of them and will post it up here someday, also.
Written on January 12, 2013
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