I always have...

Since like...kindergarten.

I remember the first day of grade 1, I had just moved into town and I was new to the school. The teacher gave me a fresh notebook to start writing my journals in during Writing Time (or whatever the hell it was called ).

So for my journal I happily drew this elaborately detailed picture of two bears drinking from this jungle water fall. I had gotten it coloured and everything when she came over and was like, "Oh, no sweetie, you have to write a journal. And then a picture with it if you'd like."

That was the first time I realized...journals suck.

I've always preferred to express myself through artwork. I use to love telling stories with just visuals. I have thousands of notebooks full of wordless stories, depicted only in drawings. Even I can't understand what the hell was going on in them...

But even after she told me how to do it properly I still only cared about the pictures. I drew them first and then wrote about it.
I've always had to do things my way, for the most part. I accept advice but I don't adopt foreign methods right away. Teachers don't like that so I'd have to be sneaky...
For instance, I have always loved drawing animals the most, humans I'm partial to---mostly because I'm unfamiliar with a bipedal anatomy---and so whenever I had to draw a picture for a story containing only humans I'd always find a way to incorporate a cat, or a dog, or Simba (because I slept, ate and breathed The Lion King).

So this habit carried on throughout grade school, high-school and even college (because for some reason we were still writing journals !!! )  

And so, you can see that I haven't changed...
I still choose to express myself visually (with deviations) and reject the explanation (my neglected journals).  

Perhaps then this journal about not writing journals will help explain my methods of submission in journal entires.

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