Keeping a diary is a great way to express your emotions on paper!

I think it's very useful to keep diary, but I can't remember how much times I tried to keep it! Unfortunately I have no time for it and after several days I complitely forget about my diary.

As to what I believe, writing isn't simply leaving words behind behind the pen's tip; in fact writing is the most secured and simple way of bringing one's thoughts, opinions and doubts to surface, owing things ups and thus having them as huge challenges to fight, or simply sweet memories to be cherished for life :)

I used to keep a diary when I was younger, but I haven't recently. I never really meant to stop writing in one, but it just seemed like as I got older, I also got a lot busier, so I stopped taking the time to write in one after awhile. I tried to start one again last year, and I did make a few long entries, but I ended up stopped pretty quickly. I think there were times in the past when I really needed a diary because it was a really good outlet for me, but now I have other hobbies that I use as outlets, and I also talk to my husband when I need to let out my feelings, so I don't feel as much of a need for a diary anymore I guess. I do still have all my old diaries though! I occasionally go back and read entries in them. Most of them are just silly things that don't interest me anymore to read, but a few of them are pretty good. I mostly just keep them packed away, but I spent so much time on them before that I just don't have the heart to get rid of them! :)

Hello comfort, I had two diaries when I was in High School and one in College! When I got married and relocate, I decided to burn it,LOL! so that I can make sure, it will not be passed to anyone! It was my secret only, my feelings, success and failures were poured out there, I love to decorate my diaries! this time, I am not into it anymore, I have compilation of pictures with captions though as my replacement to the said habit!

I've kept a diary since I was 11 years old (I'm 32 now). It is so helpful to be able to record all of my thoughts, feelings, and frusterations! Not too mention, I can go back and read how things have changed. LOL

I don't keep a diary. I have a journal I write random thoughts feelings stories about whats happening in. But Its not consistent and the subjects are kind of scattered. My grandparents have kept a diary daily for their entire married life. Its really neat to go back and see what they were doing at a certain time. It also has all the current phone numbers and addresses of friends and family for that year.

yes, its very much true.I can say it is actually something where you can express all yoyr sorrows, happiness etc. also no one to see what you express there. i no longer keep a diary but about few yeatrs back when i used to be very sad, i used to keep one.

Hi and thanks for the friend request...I accepted it. I agree with you. Writing in a diary is a great way to get in touch with...and express emotions. I have kept diaries all my life and am currently using a software program called Life Journal. I like it because it has quotations that can be added and a lot of other features as well. Interesting that you mentioned decorating. My hubby and I have been redecorating our home for the past few months. We purchased a new sofa and I had fun re-doing our great room in colors to match it. I went around the rest of the house and pulled things in similar shades from other parts of the house. I also do ceramics and hand painted some ornaments and candle holders to carry the color themes of the sofas and toss cushions to pull the room together. Great fun...good topic! Look forward to chatting again my new friend. Raia

I still have my personal journal. My husband bought me a really pretty woven one with a butterfly on the front a few months back. I love it. All of my other journals were destroyed so I was happy to get this one. I alternate the color that I write in everytime I make an entry. That way all the entries don't blend together.

I do keep diaries for about...hmmm lets just say from the moment I go to school. Writing has always been my outlet. I can even express myself freely by my writings. And I agree with you that it's really nice to reminisce on the things we do on the past. How do I decorate my diary? My diaries really does not look like diary its more of a scrapbook diary. When I write on it I use some picture cutouts or dried leaves and flowers and paste them on it. I even tried to emboss some of my writing on it. Try writing on the paper/leaves using a none ink pen then color it using crayons to see what you have written. Or try using colored glue of glitter glue as your pen. I even put the picture of someone like my friend who hurt me and write anything that I want to tell him/her on it. OR sometimes if a piece of candy wrapper is connected to what I wrote I paste it on my diary. I even try to cut some alphabets and paste it one by one and compose my sentences using those. There's a lot of way you could decorate you diary just try to look around.

yes, i do. ^^ and it laughs me out when i read it again. my diary from last year or just the other week. diary is my 2nd best friend. i sometimes write the letters with styles. like with mirrored E or the i is in ! form. ^^ its good for the soul really, it helps you to express out all your emotions, (so it wont cause you cancer. hehe) i'd kept a diary for 7 years now. i still had my diary when im still in my elementary years. ^^ ++

There's an Online diary site... It's a free site & I've been using it for few years now... It's a private on line place where you can keep your journal/diary... I try to write in it as much as I can... www.my-diary.org/

I Used to have a diary but my sister always read it so i stopped having one and just doodled in it. I plan to start a diary when i get my own laptop soon. I used Decorate my diary by Graffiting my name on it, using stickers, shiney stuff... Getting things that show your personality is good. Like if you were smartput a book on it, if you liked music a music note or instrument, if you like sport, some picture of sport. Also glueing in pictures of you and your friends or family, or just pictures you like, ex. sunset etc. Making it sorta like a scrapbook. It looked really cool.

I have a diary but I almost never write in it. Either I don't want to, or I don't have the time to do it, but most of the time I just forget it! You have inspired me, though, to write more in my diary. Thanks!

i used to write a diary when i am still a teenager... but not anymore... i had stopped doing that long time ago... the reason is simple... i don't want anybody find my diary and read what is inside and hence know all my secrets... i just feel safer to keep it inside my heart and record it in my brain so that nobody will know it... i know it sounds weird... but i have a bad experience of people reading my diary before and i didn't want it to happen again... take care and have a nice day...

I don't write in it every day now but I like to keep a note about where I go and what I see, how I feel and what I do. I destroyed all my previous diaries up to last year. I started writing a journal last year as it was the start of a new life for me and I did not want to be reminded of what had gone before. I do miss some of my old diaries though.

yes because you can say whatever you want to say in the paper and it ease your madness,anger and how happy you are that day..it also helps you to avoid heart attack because the more you keep it the more your heart suffer..

i know i kept a journal but i never could keep up with it. i would get board and just stop after a few weeks and then the notebook would either end up getting used for something else or sit around collecting dust.

All good things come to a sad end.Diaries I believe belong to a slowly diminishing romantic era where people wrote letters to each other and recorded their most personal feelings and emotions and opinions in diaries.Even today people do maintain diaries but mostly it would be online versions of one like blogs and so on.Thus a diary has become more public than personal.

When i was reading my diary especially some precious experiences,I found it's very fuuny.but now,i haven't written diary long time.