I think this is spot on. I’ll add that having journals from different stages in life will be invaluable later on when you want to know how you’ve changed (and, depressingly, how you haven’t changed). For me, stretches of months without journals or photos are simply lost to time.
As I age, this is one of my great regrets: not having written my about life more. Most of the past is just this vague smear. Writing is the only thing that I've been able to think of that answers the problem. I wish I'd known earlier.
