My object represents certain aspects of me as a person as well as some of my feelings and beliefs. My object is the next journal I will be writing in. Since about sixth grade I have kept a journal. This isn't like a diary, where I write in it everyday, but rather a place where I can record important events and keep letters and other things that I feel are important. It could also be called a "memory book," but I choose to call it a journal because I also use it to vent my feelings when I'm feelings angry, frustrated, sad, and also if something made me really happy. The journal that I have had for the past two years is almost finished so I decided to use a new one as my object. This object is obviously important to me because it's where I keep my most personal thoughts. For this reason I don't let people read it. It is also important to me because like I said I keep things in it that are significant to me. I am a very sentimental person. I always keep old notes, cards, or anything else that is important to me. If I ever lost those things I'd be very upset because I can never get them back. When I write in my journal it gives me an opportunity to sort out my thoughts and feelings. I learn a lot about myself as a person when I write, and by rereading past entries I can see how much I've changed over the past few years. One thing that I have learned about myself while writing in my journal is that I tend to keep a lot of things to myself. When it comes to certain situations I don't always express my true feelings, or say what I really would like to say. I guess I do this because I am for the most part a private person. I don't usually open up to, or trust people right away. Only after I'm really comfortable with someone will I start to confide in him or her. Over the past year however, I have realized that by suppressing my thoughts I miss opportunities. I put some quotes from different songs on the journal about this point of keeping things inside. The rest of the quotes are about the opposite. They all relate to the fact that you should live in the moment. You should't worry about the future, and just feel free to do and say what you feel. It doesn't matter what other people think or how they will react. Whatever happens happens and you should just deal with problems as they come rather than overanalyzing a situation. All of these things are what I would like to truly be able to do because I think it will benefit me. Even though I could get hurt a few times it's good to know that I took the risk and gave it a shot, rather than wondering what could have happened. I don't want to have regrets about things that I should have said. By putting these lyrics on my new journal it will be a constant reminder to me of how I want to change over the next few years. This object and the lyrics on it illustrate some qualities I have, as well as my feelings and how I would like to change as a person.