Joan Didion (Journal #2)

I remember that when I was 12 years old, I got a diary as my birthday gift that was from my mother. She encouraged me to write diaries for I can record each important memory. Because of my mother, I tried to write diaries even I did not have anything that I really wanted to record. As time goes on, gradually, I felt that to write diaries was a bore. The worst thing was that I did not know what I can write.
Edward Robb Ellis said: “We don not like writing diaries because we don not think our life is important enough.” I think he is right. Because at that time, I really think that my life is dull and uninteresting. Actually, that is a reason why I can’t write.

Everybody wants their life to be colorful and meaningful. If we don’t think our life is important, well, we should do some meaningful things to decorate and irrigate our arid soul and life. By writing diaries, we can review our life, and realize the value of existence. When we are writing the dairies, unknowingly, our spirit and life have already been changed silently.
Besides, most of time, we usually live in other people's world. When we are in the childhood, we always follow the steps that made from our parents, and we rarely do something that we really want to do. However, as we are living in the writing world, at that time, we are the master. We can choose which life we really want.

So, that is how the predisposition can readily influence people ----unobtrusively and imperceptibly.

Do you like writing ? (Journal # 1)

Many people are afraid of writing of course including me. Some people don’t like writing just because they afraid that their writing skills are not good enough, however, some of them afraid that their deep feeling will be exposed and they don’t want to face to their own feeling.

As for me, although I don’t like writing so much, sometime I will still try to write something in my note. I will write some sentences or paragraphs in order to vent my emotion, and feeling especially, when I face some troublesome problems. It is not so much that I like writing as that I like to write paragraphs that come from my deep heart. When I had finished the paragraphs, my emotion was also been soothed just as if such annoying things had never bothered me.

By the way, when I face a certain situation, I will definitely write, as I argue with my parents and I can’t make a “peaceful” conversation with them, I will write a letter to my parents to express my opinion and true feeling. By this way, we usually can easily solve some problems between us. Seriously, it works and I have already tried a hundred times in my life. Besides, I have ever written a special letters, That is my own will. Yes, I wrote a will a few years ago because during the time my home county suffered from SARS disease. As a Registered Nurse, “luckily,” I have to go to SARS ward in order to care of those patients who suffered from SARS diseases. Before I went to the SARS ward, I wrote a concise will to my family, my friends, and those people who I ever loved before. Eventually, we overcomed the humans’ disaster and of course I came back to my sweet home healthily. Until now I still preserve those letters.

Now, I start to believe that maybe I can write something. I don’t mention an essay. You know that !!