do you have your journal or diary?

Ever since I learned the significance of journal, it has been a part of my life.In fact, I've been doing it for 17 years now.When I'm gone, my loved ones can read the story of life.I found it helpful to me especially when I want to bring out what is in me.It is just like my best friend because I expressed there how I feel during those times of ups and downs in my life.It stated there my achievements and all those significant events happened to me.I taught my journal keeping to my kids.In fact, I've started their journal when I was still pregnant for them.When they learned how to write, I turned over to them their journal.My eldest was happy because she saw in her journal my picture when she's still on my womb, until she was born.My personal journal is confidential.So no one has read it yet.My books of journal for 17 years are kept in a sealed box.What I have now is my recent journal.

I felt sad upon reading this topic because I remember my precious diary which has gone out of sight. I have no exact idea where and how it was gone. Now, I do keep my journals online through blogging. With this I'd surely be keeping all my heartfelt and brilliant expressions, unless my user name & password are forgotten which I think can be so impossible.

Yeah, I have a journal too. Like you, I write all the things that happens to me, well, not exactly all things but yeah, only those really unforgettable and shouldn't be forgotten. However, I won't share it with anyone even to my children or to my family in the future.

i dont keep any of those with me as i dont want my private life to be known to every body as i feel like im taking out my privacy because of it as anyone can read it. i still believe on my privacy and that its just for me unless i want to tell it to the world. maybe i only write down those important things to remember but not really to write down my story.

i don't have a any journal but i have a dairy in which mostly i write the different kind of articles about different topic which i get from internet.

hi,during my college years, i started having a journal/diary up to now. it is my way of ventilating my emotions. i can pour everything and anything on it. and it makes me relieved..it is a sort of keeping track of what has transpired during those times and a way or remembrance.

It seems that the older you get, the less time there is to write in a journal. I have one now, but all I use it for is to record what I have written that day (articles, book reviews, etc) and 5 things I am grateful for. I don't even manage to do that every day. When I was younger, I used to write in a journal about what was going on in my life and how I felt about the world. I would encourage you to keep up your journaling habit. I think it serves as a good vehicle for putting down all your thoughts and feelings. Years from now, you will read those back and remember what it was like to be young. Once you get older, life seems to take up all your spare moments, and you'll miss it. At least, that's been my experience.

I began to keep my diary from ten years old, and now I have kept that habit for about 15 years. I think I am lucky to do that. Even some of them have been lost, for the available ones, I still have time to reread them. However, I can obtain peace by writing my thought with a pen, I think the pen and notebook are true friends of mine.

I'm 55 now, and I used to keep a journal throughout my teens and into my early married life. Becoming a parent kept me too busy to write much. A number of years ago, I read through all of these thick books I had filled. I found much of the stuff I wrote about as a young teen either didn't matter much (frankly) or didn't even make sense because I was referring to things I must have been sure i would always remember, because I didn't do an adequate job of explaining what they were! Later on, as depression set in, there was so much unhappiness... It hurt to read some of the entries. So, after some thought, I threw them all in the trash. You may well disagree with this decision, but I still don't regret it. If I had written about more interesting topics, or something more valuable, I would have kept them, but much of it was about the boy of interest at that moment. They never seemed to be interested in me when I was interested in them! LOL I just don't think posterity would have cared! So, my journal related advice would be to make sure you explain what you are talking about, because you may not remember anything about it in the coming years! That alone might have made the difference in mine.

As far as I am concerned, I think I do not have a journal or a diary in the reality. But I just have the journal or diary on the Internet,which I think is a very good place for me to share my feelings of everyday of my own life. So I usually go there to enjoy life.

i used to keep diaries since i was about 13. it is one of the things that i am really happy and proud of. i've stopped writing in the diary maybe in 2005. now i keep photo albums.. but i think a diary is so much more powerful i did not write in it too often. sometimes 2 to 3 times a week. sometimes only once a month. but i write about significant enough things in it. what happened, what i think of, stuff like that. and by the time i stopped writing in the diaries, i have 3 exact same books with different coloured covers. and if i read them now, i would always wonder if those things really happened to me. and the best part is, in the 2 last books, there are lots of things about this girl at school that i really liked. but never became my girlfriend. when i was in uni, we met again one day and got really close. and now we are married. some time after we got engaged, she saw those old journals in a box in one of my messy drawers. she still have it now. she said she really love to read them

I keep a journal too. I write in it everyday. Now, usually I spend more time sleeping than I'm able to write, and whatever time I have left, I spend on the computer. So now I keep an online journal :-) I post in it everyday, it reminds me of things that are going on with my life, and since it's online it's not saved on my pc, Im able to access it anywhere I go.

Yeah - I did have one (or two) of these back in the day. But these days, we got stuff like that digitally - blogs! :) It's fun to scribble and doodle stuff like that though - it gives that sense of peace as you try to recollect the events that took place. Ahhh. Nostalgic. Okay - I better find that long lost book of mine now.

I write a diary sometimes when on holiday, it is nice to look back on now and then. However I do not write a diary for daily activities- I often wish I did, but I am never sure if I could commit myself to staying ontop of it.

I've kept a regular diary/journal since middle school. (Which was only about 6 years ago, so I guess you older people wouldn't think that too much of an accomplishment.) I really haven't let anyone else read it but I think I'd be open to letting my children (whenever I have some) read it. I like going back and reading over it myself. I like reading the entries where I was going through a hard time so I can smile and know that I've made it out okay. :D