Current mood:	pensive
Current music:	none

What do YOU think?
I wasn't having any trouble being forthcoming in my journal until Pam commented that she was too private to write in such a medium (a paraphrase of what she said). Now I keep asking myself what if someone who knows me and the people that I talk about read my journal. I try to make sure that I don't write anything about anyone that I wouldn't say to their face but there are the issues of timing and context. And now that the nature of the media has been pointed out to me I feel so exposed. It makes me hesitate when I start to write.

I guess in the final analysis, anyone who writes to be read has to overcome these fears. You tell the truth as you understand it at the time and let the cards fall where they may. Or you pick another topic. This is a type of self censorship but that's okay. So long as it's not someone else dictating what you can or can't say.

All this crossed my mind because I am struggling with wanting to buy a guitar amplifier to replace my old one that died vs. all the more responsible things that I should do with that money. I wasn't sure that I could talk honestly about my feelings knowing that they might be read and misunderstood by people that I love. Although writing about feelings and situations may help one sort through them, some things are better not published.