[Morrigoon]

I never really journaled as a kid. Tried a couple times but just couldn't get into it. I think it's because I can't really write just for myself. It's only the concept of having an audience who wasn't there, and relating the days events or thoughts to that audience, that allows me the mental freedom of rehashing things in print.

Which isn't to say that I haven't occasionally LJ'd and set it to private, but even those entries were written with an audience in mind before I thought better of it. More often than not, though, I'll just delete it if there's no audience for it.

Which is to say, I have no journals from that time of my life. Plenty of purple cows, but no journals.

Just as well... I don't think I'd enjoy reading my thoughts from that time period, as they probably bordered on morose and would only bring up things that could still make me feel bad today.