Well, there's your difference.

On the occasions I was shuffled off to stay with my auntie instead of going with my parents, she lived on 24 acres of woodland and meadows... I never kept up with the journal or "recording" anything, because there were things to do and explore 24/7.

When I was trapped in my room in an apartment for four months... then I would frantically journal and "write things down."

Either way, seems like I've ended up being less of a fruitloop than a lot of the people I have met in life...