Beginning Step To A Solution

Someone once told me when I was recommending daily journalling... [the off-line version]...that she had tried it in the past...
but a lot of the time...the result was doing a lot of "whining" on her journal pages. I responded by saying that if there is one
place where you are allowed to "whine"...it is on your private journal pages. On the one hand...most of us know how to keep
our complaints about our lives...to a minimum with other people...knowing how counter-productive complaining to others
would be. On the other hand...we do need to vent... somewhere... about the frustrations we experience in life. The place available to do this...is in the privacy of our daily journal...without the risk of people being turned off by our expressing...what we're really going through. Speaking to others about our troubles...may be looked upon as "whining"...but on our private pages...writing the same thing down... instead...because we are able to see better what ails us when it's written down rather than churning around in our heads...can be the beginning step...to finding a solution to our difficulties..................Quester.