Reasons to Keep a Journal
(Or – How a Journal Becomes a One Way DeLorean)
Whenever I scroll through past pages, flipping backwards in time with each page,
I can see my past play out – fast reversed – until I stop at a point, on a page,
and read where I was at in that moment, at that time, on that page.
From there I march forward, page by page, reading my past thoughts,
reliving my past with my knowledge of the future,
knowing what is coming, but being unable to do anything about it,
seeing my hubris set me up, and then reality teeing me off.
Humility comes with each step and each page forward,
witnessing every success and failure, every love and loss,
with me barreling through it, forever unawares
of the futures and the unknowns…
05/30/2021?
M. L. Michael
Reasons to Keep a Journal (Or – How a Journal Becomes a One Way DeLorean)
Whenever I scroll through past pages, flipping backwards in time with each page,
I can see my past play out – fast reversed – until I stop at a point, on a page,
and read where I was at in that moment, at that time, on that page.
From there I march forward, page by page, reading my past thoughts,
reliving my past with my knowledge of the future,
knowing what is coming, but being unable to do anything about it,
seeing my hubris set me up, and then reality teeing me off. […]
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