A benefit of journaling
There are a number of good reasons to journal. One of my favorites: it helps me appreciate the impermanence of bad feelings.
I stumble across old journal entries where I’m venting about some negative situation. I might have been wrestling with regret or feeling I was at the end of my rope. Reading the words, I can remember how crappy I felt at the time, mired in circumstance.
And then I realize that all of that yuckiness just … disappeared. The circumstances may not have changed overnight, but my mood often did.