Dear Diary...

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Daenerys

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Inspired by the Survivor thread xD

Do you / have you keep/kept a diary? If so, why?

I tried keeping a diary once, like when I was 12, after reading the Adrian Mole books. Since reading a diary book inspired me to write my own diary...but it just got really tedious, and when you do pretty much the same thing every day, it's rather boring. So, I gave up after about a week or two xD
 
Can't say I do to be honest. I mean we were told back in grade school it is a healthy thing for both guys and girls to do, but there is a dilema with it. I would have way too much to write in it for one day's worth. It would be like a small short story every night. So you could see how this would take forever in a day to do, and the time needed to set this aside, just isn't there.
 
I've been keeping one ever since I was 10 yrs of age. 6 years later, I never write in it as much as I did back then. I write in my diary just to remember good times during a black day, and to remember my achievements.
 
was away from one person for a month without many communication devices..., and for fun started a diary....wrote many pages each day ^^
anyway, she enjoyed reading it later.
 
I've tried to multiple times, but in the end it always sucks. There's never much to write about in terms of events, so I try to write about something meaningful but it always dissolves into lame, pretentious whining. It's such a romantic idea, though.

I also suck at things like live journal too, except those are even more embarrassing because other people read them too.
 
I thought this was an actual 'Dear Diary' thread where we can write entries in much like in Survivor. xDDD

But yes, I do have several diaries. More than five I think. I started my first when I was 13 and although I slacked off during the last several years, I now have a new one called "Travel Journal" that I share with Mandi and Bei. xD I started off at the end of January, made a few entries in, and now I'm going to send it to Mandi later this week. She'll keep the journal for 2-3 months and send it to Bei next, and then Bei will send it to back to me when her turn ends. Yeah it's a cool cycle. The journal's pretty tight too - it has a few plastic slips so we can put pictures/letters/etc and just keep it in the journal. The cool part is that we get to read each other's journal. =]
 
Mits' ideas cool considering you get to read what other people put. But I've never tried writing and keeping a diary and I never will. I don't see the use in them to be honest, people say they can look back at the good/bad times they had when they were a child. But I'm a live for the moment person, I prefer to enjoy myself as I go along and not looking back at what happened in the past. :bmon:
 
I have two diaries that I used to keep when I was a kid. One of them I filled up to the very last page,and the other one I didn't get very far in. Now I keep a LiveJournal. I would like to start keeping a written one again,but I barely have enough time to update my LiveJournal. I usually update it once a month and the updates are very long! I like to cover everything. I enjoy keeping diaries,because I like to go back and reread my old entries. I like to see how things have changed and what hasn't and so on. Although,I don't really trust sites online for using journals,because I know eventually they will go down and then there goes all the entries. But that's why I plan on backing up all my entries and hopefully one day find the time to actually start that written diary I was taking about.
 
I've tried starting a diary in the past, but I was too scared to write anything particularly private in them in case my mum or sister read it, and I ended up just forgetting about it anyway.

I started keeping a diary at the start of last year too and I'd really just write down my thoughts and plans and stuff, but eventually lost interest. Occasionally I'd go back to it and write about what I had done on certain days but I never really wrote in it religiously or anything.

I like the idea of keeping a diary when on holiday or something for memories, but I always forget to write in it or can't be bothered or something.
 
I've had dozens of diaries--none of them more than a few pages. :gmonster:

I started when I was Grade 4. At that time, it just seemed like a really cool thing. All my friends had one. I would forget to write on it for a couple of days (you're supposed to write on it everyday, right?) and then I would end up not writing anymore.

Now I'd rather just blog from time to time. :gasp:
 
I used to have one, in primary school, but I gave up far too quickly. I could never be bothered with the idea of treating my diary as though it was a person to whom I care talk about my feelings. I'd just commentate on my average day, none of which I'd be particularly bothered about remembering, and I never really had many feelings to verbalise, anyway.
 
Nope cant say i do or ever had.
I dont really see the point in my case, i have no interest in jotting down what ive been doing, its all in my head, i can remember it, so why bother writing it down?
Its just not something that interests me at all.
 
I used to keep a diary from about grade 6 to grade 10 maybe?

However I got lazy, got interested in boys and such. Didn't have time for it anymore in the end.

However, now that I'm older and can appreciate the small things in life, I do want to keep one so that I can look back and remember all the wonderful times I had in my youth.

I want to keep a diary for when I go away on holidays or anywhere different for that matter and pack them full of photos and such.

Actually I did that on my last holiday for me and my partners anniversary and he thought I was silly for taking photos of the unit and that. But I just thought it would bring back good memories ya know? We had an awesome time on that holiday and I didn't want to ever forget anything about it. >_<
 
I've not really written a diary before...

Little bits here and there for a laugh when I was a kid, or for school or whatever.. But never seriously.

I keep thinking maybe I should, but I don't think I'd ever read it.... And I'm a hoarder as it is... I don't like to throw anything out, and memories are important to me... If I started writing a diary, well it would just be another thing to have to grab in the case of a fire!
 
I use to when times got really rough for me >_< At the age from like maybe 11 or 12 to i was like sixteen. It was something that'd i'd write because it was really hard telling people what was going on in my life so that dairy was like my sancutary. I went to it and it took my worries away.
There was one point in time where I went back and read what i wrote.. and I was like... i don't want to be reminded of the past >_> The best thing to do is to move forward and that dairy was a bunch of bad memories that I wanted gone. So i ended up throwing the thing away.
 
I guess I did when I was still a puppy... I never really kept track of anything. xD Even now there's tons of notebooks everyone 'cause I love the old-fashion writing. But... xD Nah, a Diary is not really my thing.


"Dear Diary,

Today, was non of your business."
 
I have kept diaries, but I always forgot to write in them.....and I binned one afew yerrs ago, kinda wish Id kept it now so I could lol at myself, but like I said I always forgot to write in the fucking thing so.....

according to one I found not too long ago though, I watched Die Hard alot... xD

I wouldn't keep one now, it'd just be the same old story everyday
 
When I was younger but i quickly got bored of the damn thing D= thought it was pointless keeping something I knew I wasnt going to use. Its like talking to yourself why do that when you can rant to your buds about whats going on?? That's why I think i got bored of it. Could never keep up with the thing.
 
I do keep diaries, albeit the inconsistency. It is only when I feel like it that I even bother to set down to doing so. Usually, I write when I feel there's something really big I do not want to keep bottled up. After all, keeping a diary is one good way to staying mentally healthy, I suppose. It also acts like a mental photograph of sorts- in telling me about past events and how I thought about it back then.

It's rather interesting to read my past entries in the diary too. So, I suppose I'll be keeping diaries for a long time to come.
 
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