Opinions sought, though my inability to keep one is an objective fact. Probably some combination of laziness, inertia and having very little of interest (even to myself) to write about. Quite possibly I make entries far too detailed and bore the crap out of myself. Good grief some of my older entries in this journal are tedious as hell.

Yet I want to keep one, for some strange reason. Just that the spirit is willing, but nature is weak, and all that. Heaven knows I have enough areas in my life in need of improvement, and deep in the back of my mind is the sense that a journal would be a nice tool for personal feedback, if for no other reason. Hmm, though using something that requires self-discipline when self-discipline is something I'd like to improve on via a journal is perhaps a question I'll defer for the moment.

I guess I'm also interested in the the opposite: how do others succeed at keeping one? Or at any rate manage to keep one up on a semi-regular basis? By having an interesting life? By disciplining yourself?

Oh, and it is certainly a nice thing to have one as a freebie, me being grandfathered in under the old rules. (Obligatory kowtow/forelock tug to Kraw, Manu and Red ) The way the software is here is so much easier to use than any of the blog sites I've seen. At least to me, a computer illiterate.

I'll have to ponder this one. Probably I'll give it one more shot, and if I give it up again I'll give it up for good. Just keep a Word file or something.

Nobrakes, I apologize. I was screwing around with the thread tools and deleted your post. Just so you know, it wasn't malicious, but rather it was pure incompetence on my part.

Again, sorry. :(

At least you have a santa hat on your donkey now-you just need some color in your life...

Hmmm.... I like a challenge, so I'll bite. My guess, (and I don't really know you so this is really just talking out of my neck), but my guess would be that there is a fear of expressing yourself, as if there is some expectation that you might be judged on some level. I mean, it's not just the baring of the sole....You sprung for the premium membership so it's not like you are all kinds of insane about the privacy thing.

But there is privacy and then there's privacy, right? I mean, I tell you all some really personal crap, but there is my real life person and my online persona. (and, frankly, my online persona is a couple of years younger than I am.) (and maybe she has better shoes.)

What is it about yourself that you think might turn people off? Do you think that if people have that glimpse into your real persona that there might be things that they don't like? Or are you afraid that people might see something that they do like? What scares you more?

Nobrakes, I apologize. I was screwing around with the thread tools and deleted your post. Just so you know, it wasn't malicious, but rather it was pure incompetence on my part.

Again, sorry. :(

No problem! :)

My reply was to the original post you had, which was much shorter. And it turns out you (more or less) addressed what I had said in the first post here anyway.