Journaling: A Time-Wasting and Foolish Practice

C. S. Lewis on keeping a diary (what we'd call "journaling"):

If Theism had done nothing else for me, I should still be thankful that it cured me of the time-wasting and foolish practice of keeping a diary. (Even for autobiographical purposes a diary is nothing like so useful as I had hoped. You put down each day what you think important; but of course you cannot each day see what will prove to have been important in the long run.)

—Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1955), 233.