How journaling and creative writing can help you discover yourself.

Imagine you are writing a diary about a day that surprised you. What would likely dominate the entry? Strange coincidences and connections that I hadn't noticed before.
My feelings and internal experiences of situations.
Specific actions and reactions of other people.
Things I didn't manage to say or do.
Questions that came to my mind that day and I am still looking for answers to.

If you had to name your diary as if it were a book, what title would you give it? "Behind the Mirror of Ordinary Days"
"Feeling maps"
"Notes from the Frontline"
"Silent thoughts aloud"
"Question marks of life"

Which image most evokes your approach to writing? An open gate to the secret garden.
A lantern in a dark room.
A map that changes with every view.
Mirror in the fog.
A well into which I throw words like stones.

How do you react when an unpleasant emotion or memory arises while writing? I am trying to capture it and understand it.
I write faster as if I want to "spill" it out.
I'll skip it and come back to it later.
I am analyzing what my inner self is trying to tell me.
I'll delete it – I'm not ready to deal with it.

What does "authenticity" in writing mean to you? The courage to name things without a mask.
Words that sound like my inner voice.
Determination to show flaws and uncertainties.
Not caring about what others think of it.
Curiosity - to explore what is hidden within me.

Which of these statements reminds you the most of your writing? "When I write, I connect the dots between events."
"Writing is my safe space."
"Sometimes I write to know what I even feel."
"Writing helps me not to overlook what is important."
"It’s like talking to yourself, but more truthful."

How do you envision the ideal moment for writing? Quiet morning, when everything is still asleep.
After an intense experience or conversation.
Then, when I am alone with myself in safety.
When something moves inside me, even though I don't know what it is.
When I have the need to free myself from inner pressure.

What do you think your notes would reveal to you after many years? As I grew up without realizing it.
What truly weighed on my heart.
Where I was afraid to go deeper.
How my perception of myself and the world has changed.
What patterns of behavior have I been repeating over and over?

What is your relationship with the past when you revisit it through writing? It is a place where I search for answers.
I am trying to understand her, not to rewrite her.
I often find things in it that I have overlooked.
It returns like a quiet whisper that occasionally intensifies.
Sometimes I get lost there – and then I find something new.

What surprises you the most when you return to an old entry after some time? How bravely or vulnerably I wrote.
How many things have I already solved?
That some topics keep returning.
How different my views were years ago.
That the words I wrote back then make even more sense to me today.