A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life , a place where you can be alone and content as you play with outage and wonder , details and gossip , language and dreams , plots and subplots , perceptions and small epiphanies . by Ralph Fletcher April 24 , Scribbling again ! Time for myself late at night . So much has happened since then . I make a habit of looking for things that starle me from time to time . I think It ' s very helpful to keep being cheerful in any situation . But I know I pick things up and then I suddenly get bored of them . Some people I ' ve met these days are nice / charming , others aren ' t : ( But I just hope to be wiser and more sincere than who I was . And first of all . .... How are you doing ? Memories mean more to me than anything else . I was quite busy and focusing on my pleasant duties with expectations . Now , I ' m different Sarah , hmm , I ' m not what I used to be . In other words , I ' m trying to test / enjoy myself . But when I ' m sitting alone like this , I can certainly recapture my true character . It ' s a good thing to write a diary and bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart . It is the carrier of what ' s happening inside me . Reading & writing enrich our daily life . Everything around us is writable if we have the eyes and mind to look around them all . And my long - cherished beliefis that everyone has written and had their own story . How about yours ? I hope it ' ll have a happy / interesting one , anyway . I ' ve learned that the world where we live is first and foremost shaped by the mind . So I love and respect the ones whose mind always head on to the spot where it should be . Anyway , it ' s very chic to become myself , without being perfect . I just wanna keep the sense of the beautiful surrounding me , hearing such music , reading good books , seeing gripping ones , and talking to good friends . Every piece of activity lodges in my mind : ) to be continued , sarah ~ ♥ 41399