Do you keep a diary now ?
By SmilyQin
@SmilyQin (179)
China
February 17, 2009 6:21am CST
How many of you keep diary now?
May be you don't have time,maybe you don't have the mood,but I think that we should keep a diary .I have a book,I won't write it in my computer,I like the feeling of writing on a beautiful book.
You don't have to write everyday,just when you are upset or very happy,when you really wanna write something,do it !
When you back to see these words,you will have a wonderful or different feeling.
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29 responses
@iamfine (740)
• China
17 Feb 09
sometimes I would keep diary sometimes not. and the same to you, I like to write my mood, my though, my exprience on a beautiful notebook, a beautiful notebook would give me passion to write something on it. As a matter of fact, I have the habit of collecting beautiful notebooks.
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
17 Feb 09
Oh, it's not really a formal diary where I start with 'dear diary', nor is it in a notebook where I write daily and update every time.
It's more of a notepad in my yahoo email.
Just at least once a year when I feel like writing about how I feel, though it's usually when I'm sad that I write there, but I'm trying to be more positive so I'd include the happiest days of my life.
It's not on a regular basis, it's just around once or twice a year (maximum so far was 3x a year).
It's more about love. How I love the person, how the person hurt me, and all those emo stuff that I don't want to forget.
Indeed you are right when you said that when you go back to these words, you will have a wonderful or different feeling. I do read it at least once a year, and it makes me smile (even if it's sad), it makes me realize how mushy I was that time, or how innocent I was. It makes me glad that I wrote those stuff, and I'm also glad that it's not something that I'd grow tired reading about (perhaps it's because I don't write just any ordinary events or feelings, it's only a chosen few).
I would recommend that people write their diaries. But not to be too dependent or attached to it. It's more of a way of keeping track of how you were few years ago. Makes you smile, makes you feel you're alive.
How many years have you been writing your diary?
Mine? The first entry was like 10years ago.
Happy Mylotting!
@deepakraj83 (180)
• India
18 Feb 09
yes it correct to keep the diary.so that when ,what happened with us ,when we ware happy and upset it shows all our good or bad movement of us.i am keeping a diary in which i will write my happy and sad movements.
@sasirekha6 (6)
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18 Feb 09
yes i agree with you..........but keeping the diary safely is very difficult thing....
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@blazextreme (67)
• Canada
18 Feb 09
I have never kept a diary... I dont know what the point of it is, but it seems like alot of people do it. It is mostly girls who seem to do this, they write a whole bunch of stuff and some day someone reads it and they find everything out about them. My Girl Friend has one... and she writes everything in it and one day one of her friends read it... and they got into a huge fight and now they never talk to eachother. They had been friends for sixteen years.
@jd107nette (1454)
• Philippines
18 Feb 09
aww... that's very sad....
i understand why some people do not keep diaries... If it's a secret, then why produce some sort of evidence?
But you see, "when a thought is written on a paper, it means that, the writer is HOPING that some one would read it SOMEDAY..."
Timing is the key to it...
Probably in due time, a diary could be freely read without anyone getting angry...
My friends have read my diaries before, I have written a lot of stuffs which could have made them angry, but instead of feeling that way, we just laughed at the memories my diary made us remember... ^_^
@Thomasyanghua (5)
• China
18 Feb 09
Exactly right,I just keep diary by mood,sometimes few words,sometimes no,
I have a bad hobby.most of time when i go to bad and near sleep,I could calmly think out one case,and easy to get some answer from deep of myself,and would like to write down,but sometimes I havn't done.
and sometimes I am really good writer in my dream,lots of beautiful sentences could flow in my dream.
@00BleedingShadow00 (784)
• Philippines
18 Feb 09
I used to have diaries before. The one with lock and book mark, the traditional one. But I stopped writing in a traditional diary because there's always someone who read my diaries and my secrets are no longer secret because they also tend to tell others about it. Now, I keep an online diary. At least no matter what they do they will never know my password and open my online diary. I was just shocked once because the locket of my diary was totally destroyed. I don't know who did it but that made me decide to stop writing in my traditional diary.
@jaffna (778)
• India
18 Feb 09
I own diary too.It's ma everyda habit and i would never sleep without flowing down ma words and experiences of the particular day am writing about.Ma usual timings is 9 PM.i write diary for half an hour,with the inclusion of a poem at the end.When ever i have time and feel bored,i would recollect ma past experiences and even some have influenced me to change ma present character to the past one.It has provided me good hobby too.It's like an autobiography.Am owning diaries for almost 10 years
@machel2008 (616)
• China
18 Feb 09
yes,i am also keep diary now,but i have no enough time for write diary,so i can not continue write diary everyday,i usually use my computer write diary.write diary on blog.i think keep diary is really good habit for everybody......happy mylotting and have a nice day............
@celebratelifeh (1142)
• China
18 Feb 09
i wirte diary around 2-3times per week and keeping one blog and updated it 2times per week also.i like the feeling of writing by hand also but sometimes forget to, aha..keep on wirtting is also a good way to get your hand script more beautiful , just record what's happen and what's your wishes timely and this will give you good memory what it is when the time passing away...
@ericluckychan (50)
• China
18 Feb 09
years ago , i like to write down whatever come across to my mind or everything interests me,
now, it is a different story, because i have no mood to do it
@bestofbestboy (12)
• China
18 Feb 09
i have try to keep a diary before, but after a short time, i cannot persist on it and give up. sometimes i felt there is nothing to write, everyday is almost same in my life, sometimes i want write something due to happiness or sadness, but it failed because of my lazy. now, i try to improve the situation, i usually post and respond to discussion on some forum, you are right, when i review diary in some day, i will find happiness in it. may i keep a diary in some day. what about others?
@star_wish (168)
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18 Feb 09
When i was a school student,i kept diary everyday,but now i don't do it anymore, partly because i am busy. Now that i spend so much time on internet everyday,i will write my everyday feeling & experience in my blog.
@caocao2008 (11)
• China
18 Feb 09
before i entered the colleage school, i never write a diary. however, something very important may happen then i have the habit of writing important things. if i do so ,then when i am old , i can clearly remember what happened.
@bamrahkirti (1821)
• India
18 Feb 09
Ya i have started writing diary after my marriage when i came to this understanding that my partner cannot absorb all my happiness and sadness.
I do not write diary daily but do write on occasions like something new has happened into my life,i am excited ,happy or upset about anything.It is a good medium to express your feelings in a quiet and peaceful manner.
@killhawaii (112)
• United States
18 Feb 09
I used to write in a dairy. But I stopped. Decided it wasnt for me. It did not do anything for me. I understand that for some it helps take off some stress in their life but not me. If anything it reinforced that stress back into my life making me even more stressed. It had the opposite effect on me. So, I stopped. I dont think I will ever start again but I will also not stop others from doing it either.
@hustzxz (4)
• China
18 Feb 09
My wife often keeps a diary when she is happy or sad, I seldom notice what she write in the diary, but sometimes she let me to see her diary, I always enjoying myself in appreciating her production. So, thanks the people who has been keeping diary for their work which bring us much pleasure!
@skyle487 (17)
• Philippines
18 Feb 09
i've kept a diary since i was 12 years old. though in the recent years, the frequency of writing in it declined. it went up a bit when i started an online (but private) journal. i also still keep a notebook handy, which is also a tool that i use for this workshop that i'm undergoing.
i like reading back through old diaries and seeing how much i've grown all these years, even if at times, i feel really really stupid for having done those things in the past.
@meggiehan (77)
• China
18 Feb 09
when i was a little girl, there are so many secret in my head can't tell anyone, you know ,so i wtite down in dairy, that like say to myself. i write more than ten books, that's huge project. when i grow up, i seldom keep dairy. i remember that diary time.