Journal Writing Prompts - Your Memories
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Journal prompts: memories
1. What's something you were afraid of as a child?
2. What's something difficult you had to do?
3. What's an embarrassing moment that happened to you?
4. Who is someone you've lost? What are some of your memories about that person?
5. What's something that helped to shape your outlook to life?
6. Describe your teachers at school.
7. Describe your best childhood friend and your relationship with this person.
8. When you were a child, how did you imagine your adult self?
9. What's your earliest memory?
10. What are some of the memories you associate with springtime? With summer, fall, and winter?
Journal prompts: Write about your first...
11. Day of school or college
12. Crush
13. Date
14. Car
15. Home
16. Pet
17. Job
Journal prompts - Write about any of these life milestones:
18. Graduation
19. Wedding or divorce
20. Pregnancy
21. Childbirth
22. Job or career change, retirement
Journal prompts - What memories are brought by the following smells?
23. pine needles
24. cut grass
25. sunscreen
26. rubbing alcohol
27. cinnamon
28. stale beer
29. pencil erasers
30. vinegar
31. newly-vacuumed carpet
32. orange peel
33. radiators heating up
34. mothballs
35. roses
36. a new car
37. frying bacon
38. damp paper
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