10:52 pm

(14 days left until 1st Journal is COMPLETE!!)

Once upon a time...I know...this is such a cliche line, which can bee heard in a fairytale story or even a bedtime story but there's more to this journal entry than this opening line...

Okay.

Once upon a time...Poppy got me a journal as a gift, on a winter day of late December. I started daily journaling on December 20th 2022. And at first, I was hesitant about writing in a journal because I fear of someone exposing my private thoughts out to the public.

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December 20th 2023

The one thing about me is that I am like a safe box that will never open for anyone, even if it is my emotions and feelings. With this situation, Poppy brought me this journal ten minutes ago. She has convinced me to write in it since I would not talk about my emotions and feelings to anyone, including her. She has challenged me to write in this journal for a week to see if it would be helpful for me. It sounds horrendous to me because I'm not ready to go deep into writing about my emotions and feelings yet. Yes, I finally embraced my inner Troll and adjusted to Troll society, but I value privacy to the extreme. I mean, what if someone finds my journal and reads it?

I have no idea what else to write about. Don't I have a journal already? Yes, I do, but I never consistently wrote in it, but who knows, if I stay consistent in writing this journal, I will try. I'm ending this entry with the following: My main goal is to write in my second journal daily. Maybe it will help me open up somehow. I'm not promising because I fear writing about anything deep and personal in my journal. I will write my very first prompt for this journal today.

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But as the months went by, I had been learning and enjoying moments of daily journaling, especially about everything that was going on in my life. The great and hard times of my life. I had learned a lot from Poppy and the rest of my friends. I'm very happy and grateful that I've been journaling for this long. This journal. Writing in this journal changed my life. It wowed me, and I was slowly revealing personally things inside of it and took from many brave to risky moments of writing certain events in this journal, even when it's so too much information.

One of the moments I had enjoyed so far this year was this entry:

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Saturday, May 27th

I just came back from the Jungle Spa, which Poppy and I had such a great time there! They have a lovely hot tub in the middle of the jungle, which Poppy and I spent an hour in, we chatted and had lunch on the hammocks, and we spent our evening together on a separate island, drinking Blue-Cool Aid, staring at the sunset. And for a second, we thought we seen one of our friends Biggie riding on a narwhal. But then it turned out to be a dream. Yeah, it's a bit odd to say this, but it's true. Oh...wait...we did get to see a narwhal show though, but didn't see Biggie.

What else we did is that we slept in this morning, explored some more of the Jungle City, and got massages. Yeah, to be honest, we had spent most of the day at the spa that I didn't even realized what time it was. We are back at the hotel around 8 pm, and I think we went to the Spa around 4 pm. 4 hours? Wow, that was such a long time. I guess you can say that we spent so much on that island.

Oh, to mention that we're going to watch a movie tonight, so I'm just going to chill in my robe with Poppy and I'll journal some more tomorrow. Goodnight!

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And I'm enjoying every second of daily journaling and I hope to continue on with this. The End.

Wow, what great memories! I can't wait to finish my journal very soon, which I'm hoping to get a journal with extra pages in it, maybe around at least 240 pages. Also, I've got some great news! My back feels a lot better, and I am out of the hospital. Also, Poppy and I went out for our date at a restaurant and ate an olive-tomato focaccia bread, with salad and a bowl of tomato soup! Mmmh, mmh! That was tasty and now I'm back in my bunker, snuggling in my cozy bed again. What a day. Now, I'm going to chill and then go to bed. Goodnight.