Post #10 of my English Class: Journal Reflection: The Inner Journey

For my English Class we had to write 5 journals and 3 compass a week. Totally, I did 40 journals and 24 compass. This activity have the purpose to give the student a space to reflect about your inner journey. For this, the professor makes up some rules that are: keep your hand moving, don't cross out, don't worry about grammar, lose control, don't think and go for the jugular. And, the final objective of this is to improve our writing skills.

At the beginning follow the rules were very difficult especially the one that says don't think because is very hard to not think while you are writing but you get use to it. Also it was very hard to do not worry about grammar and to keep your hand moving. Keeping my hand moving was hard because I usually think a little before I write something and this was about putting there you first thoughts. Sometimes, also I wanted to put really deep things but the reality things is that most of the time you are just thinking in how tired you are or about eating something because you are starving. The grammar was so hard to ignore because since childhood the grammar is the main objective of the teachers, but after all I did it.

When we started doing it I write on the morning because that was the time in which my mind felt more clear, but then, I continue to wrote on the evening because it was the time when I had all the things that happened to me that day on my mind. Also, at the beginning the 10 minutes were too much time you just get exhausted of writing your thoughts, but at the end the 10 minutes were nothing they end really soon. I also noticed that my handwriting was more free through time like it was effortless.

My inner journey would change a lot this year because I'm not just graduating from the university, I'm also going to the St. Kitts medical school. And because of this, one of the most significant journals was the one that I did on the day of the interview. That day I write after the interview and I describe all the feelings that I had, from happiness to stress.  This was one of the best day of my life but also one of the most stressful and I had the opportunity to reflect on this on my journal. 

Finally, I had to say that this inner journey has been very  helpful because I can express some emotions and feelings that I can't say. Also, it helped me with the stress because when I had to make a decision I talk to myself with this journal and it helps me. I will keep writing because I think it is a great opportunity to get rid of the emotions and to connect with yourself.