Inner Journey Blog

This semester of spring I have the opportunity of write a journal. This internal journal has certain characteristics we need to follow with the idea of improve our writing. The journal will include 40 entries, they were daily reflection or thoughts and 24 compasses that will make us think about our emotional, spiritual, physical and mental status. I enjoy writing this journal because we have some rules to keep:

                                       1)      Keep your hand moving

                                             2)      Don’t cross out

                                             3)      Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation and grammar

                                             4)      Lose control                                                                                            
                                             5) Don’t think and don’t get logical
                                             6) Go for the jugular

These rules was designed to help us to develop a better writing, because permit us to see our mistakes. In the begging follow these rules was very hard for me. I try to keep moving my hand and don’t cross the mistakes I commit, but in the beginning I do it automatically. Cross my mistakes affects all the other rules, because don’t permit me lose control and capture exactly my first thinking. In the other hand go to the jugular maybe was the unique rule more easy to pursue. With the continue writing in my journey I see that every time was more easy for me to keep my hand moving and express more clearly my thoughts. With the passage of the time I was getting more and more speed when I wrote; furthermore increase the amount of pages per time. When I see all the entries I do, I feel so proud.  I can say that the diary improve my writing and really contribute to enhance my vocabulary.  

In other hand this internal journal permit me express a lot of things that I don’t tell to anybody. This journal opens a door to know better myself. I think that keep these diary is an excellent tool, to first confront with the language and second to reflect on our daily lives. The majority of my entries talk about the university. For me the university is the center of my life. I am very close to finish my bachelor’s degree, for this I am making the best I can, because my next goal is go to the medicine school to continue my graduate studies. For now I am worry to obtain the best grades I can. This semester all my classes give the assignments for the same days and the exams coincided the same week. I was with a lot of work and my internal journal is the only witness of all the anxiety and stress I felt. This journal was my scape to ventilate all my emotions. I think this diary is to continue every time not just for the class.

In my personal opinion the internal and the external journey permit me to clarify and lose all the fear I felt for the language. The diary also let me have a better expression of my scripture and more control of my time at the moment of writing. This internal journal is has been for me a journey, a journey to now better the language and in other way now better myself.