The Best Friend a Girl Could Have

By Angee Robertson

I can attribute my being able to journal as a salvation point in my life. It was my ability to unload my thoughts, frustrations and hurts on to the pages of my journal while growing up that helped me to stay out of trouble.

I grew up with a normal loving family. I had a mother, father and two brothers. We seemed like the perfect middle class family until one day that was all thrown out the window and my parents divorced. My brothers went to live with my dad and I stayed with my mom. Being raised by a single mother wasn’t easy. My mom worked so hard to put food on the table and a roof over our heads that there was barely any time or money for anything else.

I wasn’t able to participate in any school activities such as band, cheerleading, etc. because my mom couldn’t leave work to pick me up after practice nor could we afford the cost of being involved in extracurricular programs. This meant that I really didn’t have many friends in school. I had other kids in the neighborhood to play with but when they were participating in other activities, it left me pretty lonely.

During these lonely times, I would write in my journal. I would write stories and dreams. For such a young person, I would really get in touch with my feelings. It was my escape as well as my best friend. I know for myself that had I not had a place to go to express myself, I would have found other avenues that might not have been so safe. I could have went down a very different road that would have seen a lot of trouble and heartache.

To this day, my journal is my best friend. I can share my thoughts with no judgment and it is the best listener ever. It cries, laughs, celebrates highs and lows with me and is the best secret keeper. It is always 100% present, always on call and I never invade its space or offend it. My journal helps me see that a situation may not be as bad as I thought it was.

In a world where time seems to fly by, people are over committed and there is so much “noise” between television, internet, smart phones, etc., it is nice to have a constant friend that is consistently there and will never change.

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Angee Robertson is a woman just like you: creative, intelligent and driven to succeed. And she’s constantly journaling, taking notes during meetings and in quiet stolen moments to reflect on her life. In 2006, Angee became really frustrated at the lack of options available in journals for women so she set out to develop a way to give women a selection of journals in yummy colors unlike anything in the market today. Who says journals have to be boring brown or basic black.

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