by Mzzz Sweets - Sandy (Why do I have to add a last name?)
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September 8, 2006

QOTD : Diary

August 04, 2012 11:36 AM UTC
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When I was a child I use to have a diary. It helped me get through some really hard and emotional times. I was able to write my feelings down with out worry of someone lashing out or me getting punished for my thoughts. The diary helped me focus and stay positive for what I wanted in the future. When I got married, once again I had a diary. Than I caught my ex husband reading it one day. I stopped writing in it and threw it away. Thinking back I knew my diary was the first place I started my writing, both personal thoughts and my poems. I have since, bought my daughter a diary and gave it to her to start her own writings.

So, the question of the day is : Have you ever had a diary? Online or not. Describe what your diary meant or means to you.

Comments: 38

Tim T. Aug 4, 2012, 11:43am UTC
I've keep journals since I was a young boy. My wife does them on occassion. We've lead very interesting and well-traveled lives, so I always made it a point to log my day's activities, the people I met, what was going on in the world, feelings, etc. It is fun to look back and jog a detail or memory that might otherwise be forgotten.
Yes, journals are great. To me a diary, journal, blog or what even name has the same meaning.
William M. Aug 4, 2012, 12:04pm UTC
Never had one.
Susan G. Aug 4, 2012, 12:27pm UTC
Never had one. We moved around way too much. I have my great grandfather's journals and they make for fascinating reading. My grandfather's journal is rather boring though.
I don't think I have ever read anyone's but mine.
Susan G. Aug 5, 2012, 7:52pm UTC
They didn't write much of anything real personal so I never have the sense of intruding on their private lives. There was a passage about crossing the street to avoid greeting a particular woman but he didn't go into why. Still it made me laugh.
It does make one wonder why the lady was being avoided.
Susan G. Aug 6, 2012, 4:27pm UTC
I did wonder about that. Could have been a gossip or a loose woman. Or, since he was a widower, she could have been in hot pursuit. Fun to speculate but I'll never know.
Mary M. Aug 4, 2012, 1:05pm UTC
I've had them on and off. I think it's hard to write down my most personal thoughts, because of the worry that someone will read them who I'd rather not see them. I'm not a big keeper of secrets though. I do like to go back over my online blogging and see what I was doing, thinking or feeling a year or so ago.
I am not a fan of keeping secrets either. My diary was never for keeping secrets but mainly my thoughts on what happen that day.
Tory H. Aug 4, 2012, 2:42pm UTC
Yes. I had one as a kid, and I have an online journal.
I also have a journal that I use sometimes, when I'm feeling something really silly or mean or frustrated that I don't want to share with an actual person. It does help to get it out!
I would love to have a place to share my thoughts where I know it would be private away from others views except mine.
Janie E. Aug 4, 2012, 3:46pm UTC
Yes, I have! Now, I have an online journal that I use for venting my feelings and for general entries.
Is the online journal private? If so, can you give me the link? I would love to have an online journal. Something just for me.
Janie E. Aug 6, 2012, 6:08pm UTC
Yes, it is! This is the address. http://penzu.com/ Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Alright! Thank you. I am going to check it out.
Janie E. Aug 6, 2012, 11:55pm UTC
You're very welcomed, Sandy! Let me know how you like it.
Nancy S. Aug 4, 2012, 3:50pm UTC
I've had several through the years. I haven't kept one now for a long time.
I haven't had one for years either.
May Xue Aug 4, 2012, 7:45pm UTC
Writing is what kept me going when I had gone through a horrible childhood life of abuse and neglect. It is too painful to reread them over again. I decided to write a new chapter of a good life out of all of that painful past.
I have tried to bury the past. That didn't work. So, writing it down and tearing it up afterwards did help. I love to write.
michele r. Aug 4, 2012, 10:57pm UTC
Off and on over my life. I never really stuck with it though. I would write constantly for a while and then just one day drop it out of the blue for no reason and not pick it up again for years. Not currently writing in one.
I want to start an online one. One that would be private and not for others eyes. Basically my thoughts that I think in my head but don't dare say or act out.
michele r. Aug 6, 2012, 3:50pm UTC
That would be great if you could keep prying eyes from it. Go for it.
That will be the plan anyways.
Sassy *bacon makes me happy* Cat Aug 4, 2012, 11:19pm UTC
I had a diary when I was a kid, but didn't keep it going. Lost interest in it after a couple of weeks.
My daughter loves her diary.
wendy st. john-devereaux Aug 5, 2012, 8:41am UTC
i always had a diary when i was growing up....

as an adult, i have kept a journal off and on, but i usually just have a little notebook, mostly for jotting down phrases that come to mind, ideas for poems, etc.

blessings
I enjoy having a place where I can write from prying eyes. However I enjoy sharing my positive thoughts and such.
M L M. Aug 5, 2012, 11:17am UTC
I never have, I can't recall knowing anyone that did.
My daughter really enjoys hers.
M L M. Aug 6, 2012, 4:11pm UTC
It would have been neat if I had know to start one when I was young, but no one in my family has ever had one. It would have made for some interesting reading if my grandmother born 1895 would have had one.
Yes, it sure would have. With all the changes and how much technology has increased over the years. It would been neat to read it through the mind of a relative.
M L M. Aug 7, 2012, 10:33am UTC
No kidding. She saw the changes from horse n buggy to Auto, Corset to Bra, Long dress to short, Balloon to Airplane.....chucky darn, I would love to know what she was thinking when all that went down.
It does make one wonder, that is alot to see in a lifetime.
M L M. Aug 7, 2012, 10:48pm UTC
I think things started moving really fast when the industrial age started, not all of it is good either.
Alison H. Aug 15, 2012, 6:45pm UTC
One's mail and diary and other papers should be considered sacrosanct and never read without permission. My mom and dad always respected my privacy, and my husband, too, which I appreciate. I hope your husband has wised up.

I believe I started a diary when I was young, but never kept up with it. When I started college, we were required to keep a journal for English class. The instructor said he would read it or not, according to our preference, but it was an assignment that we had to write something every day. Since then, I've kept a journal off and on, mostly on, but then I get bored and stop for a while. As I get older and my memory suffers, it's handy to have the journal to remind me of what my life was and is like, and of the funny things that happen, and the dreams I have.
RJ H. Aug 15, 2012, 6:50pm UTC
I never was a diary or journal person, but my daughter journals regularly and has since 10 or so. I have never violated her trust in me by snooping.

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