Journal Writing

today in church someone mentioned journal writing in the lesson. it wasn't event he basic topic of the lesson, but it got me thinking. probaly because i do not write in mine very often. maybe once a month if i am lucky. i was thinking about the things that we write in our journals. about the stories that we tell in them about the thoughts that we have had.

i realized something. it is something that i have realized before, but i thought about it once again. every story we live through and write down is not our own. yes, we do all have our own experiances and things that we go through that make us who we are. but what turly makes it our own experiance is how we viewi what is going on. someone else can view that same event in a toal different way and come out thinking something diferent then you. but our experiances are not just ours. our lives are all intertwined with each others. everything that we do and what we experiance is shared with someone else. even if you don't recognize it, your life is made up of others. when you tell a story it usually involes other poeple. those people have that same story to tell to others as well. most of the things that we choose to do in our lives invlove other people. and therfore, what we do effects other people.

all of our lives are entertwined with each others. by being connected to the people around you, you are then connected to the world. for the person that you are connected to is connected to someone else, and they are connected to someone else as well, and so forth until we are all entertwined into one world.

but the thing that gets me the most is that we need to be connected to all of these people to survive. man was not ment to stand alone. man was not ment to live alone or to do everything by himself. that is way god granted adam a wife. he granted adam a partner to share life with. it is only by being connect to others that we turly live. we were all put on this earth together to teach each and to help each other stand through life. god never intended for man to try to survive on his own. no man ever could. it is only by living our lives with others that we turly learn to live.

our stories are not just our own. they are those who we live our lives with. they are what makes us all who we are.