This is fascinating to me. The few times I've tried starting a journal I've failed almost from the beginning because I never had an audience in my head. I tried writing for "posterity"; that didn't work. I tried writing to myself in the future -- reminding myself of things I had forgotten -- and that didn't work either. It never made sense to me to write to myself in the present, as you are doing, so that didn't work . So I would give up, about as quickly as I started.

One of your advantages is that you started so young, before this kind of nonsense invades your brain. By the time you thought to figure out who you were writing for, it was already habit. I don't know.

B