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You don’t need a reason to climb into your cupboard and write, but there are many good reasons, almost as many reasons as there are journal writers.

One friend of a friend who had threatened and tried suicide several times, to the despair of his family, was advised by his psychiatrist to keep a daily journal–which he did. The result was that life did become more significant to him and he became more interested in living than dying.

Similarly, a character in one of Erica Jong’s novels gave the heroine a beautiful cloth-bound book in which she inscribed, “Here is a book to save your life.”

The dust cover to the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky reads,

“Vaslav Nijinsky, the ‘God of the Dance’ was on the verge of mental breakdown when he wrote this diary as an outlet for his views on religion, art, love and life…”

Your life, however, may not be in such dramatic straights requiring the buoyancy of the paper pages to keep you afloat. You may simply and quietly need to craft a thought, call it your own, and keep it in a safe place.