Did you keep your old diaries from your childhood?

I actually started keeping a journal-type diary after I graduated from college. It's where I jotted down significant things or milestones and also my plans and stuff. It's actually an open-ended journal, not an annual type of thing, and I use it sometimes as some sort of reference when I'm faced with a similar situation. In retrospect, I think it would've been fun to have kept one during my teens and read how immature I was back then.

No, I don't have it any longer. I threw it after my mom has secretly read it. Right now, I am not writing on a diary anymore for the reason that my mother might catch it and read it. That would be very embarrassing. Well, before, I used to write my daily activities and my feelings. My writings are mostly about my feelings when I am with my crush--- what happened, where did we go, what did he told me, everything!

My high school friends and I recently discovered our old diaries and cross checked the dates in order to know what we were doing twenty years ago. It's funny because a lot of our entries made us cringe and laugh so hard when we would recall about our crushes and how stupid our entries sound today. What's also funny is the way that we put importance on small things, such as exams or eating at a particular fast food chain. I am looking for two more diaries that I filled from 1992 up to 1996. I would like to find it and read it because it was at this time that I started working and did miss out on a lot of activities my friends had. They were able to experience college life and I could not because I had to work to support my family. My friends know this that's why they asked me about this diary. They know also that I write a lot, so they know that I keep track of a lot of dates and happenings that we had during those times. The fun thing also about keeping a diary is seeing how much you have changed and grown all those years. You can see it from the entries and what you now deem as important.

Yes I do. I still have them now, but whenever I read it I see the immature me in there. There were times that I had a diary that full of disappointment about my ex boyfriend that was when I was 15years old. I do not wanted to go back to that feeling so I throw that diary, what is left was those things that would remind me how happy I was Yesterdays.

Yes I completely understand what you feel on reading your Diary! I also had one back when I was in elementary and Highschool. It was hilarious how I spend so much time thinking about boys and how they are perfect and how i am not! It is also funny to see all the mispelled words and the wrong grammar! hehe.

haha. i did make a diary before. but i made it different than the the usual diary that everyone has. instead of putting in sentences or paragraphs... ehat i did is make it look like a comic strip. i draw the highlight of the day. but too bad, i left that diary when we moved to a new place. someone kept the diary. after that, i didn't continue making comic journals.

I did for a short time just for my own memories but then I thought if anything happened to me other people would be reading it so I destroyed it...

I always kept a diary from a very young age. It is a good way to find resolution and help to process our experiences from day to day living. Unfortunately those diaries are long gone. I rarely keep diaries very long these days once a new year has started. It is better now with computers as they can be kept and not take up any room.. _Derek

My childhood was not a technology era, so no diary was recorded. Now the era has come but I even haven't started writing it. I just can't do it regularly. When I miss something to write, I usually get lazy to write it again.

It sure is fun reading back our diaries. I started writing journals when I was in HishSchool. It was a school project which we have to write there daily. The problem is I wasn't able to write so on the day our prof asked us to submit it. I made up something only. It has to have moral lesson in the end. I made some a little longer but in between I kept some song lyrics to make it longer After that I made my own personal diary. I didn't want anyone reading it even my professor of course. It's suppose to be my personal one, you know. I lost it now, I think my mom had thrown those diaries away when you shifted house several times.

No. I have not kept any diary and I do not intend to keep one. My mind is my diary and I can remember pretty well most of those significant events.

well,a very good discussion. i threw my diaries from the time when i was 12~15 away.i reread it before i threw it~. it's very funny at that time,because those diaries was a homework that my chinese teacher made us so.i wrote some complaints on it,and i found my teacher's comments below.at that time i'm very straight,i wrote everything i thought i should write,i complainted about my math class was a waste of time,it's kinda useless;complaint our p.e.classes was often replaced by chemistry teacher during the finals,and etc.

Yes, i do keep my diary, until now i still keeping it with me. Sometimes i will reread it, and everytime when i reread my diary, i found funny with my thoughts at that time, why will i think like that? Haha...but it is really a great memory for me, so i keep on writing diary until today, and i wish when i getting old, i still can reread my diary when i was young. Happy mylotting

i have the habit of keeping all the textbooks i studied . and i am sure there would be some of my old diaries in the piles of textbooks. one or two years ago , i cleared some of them out , i read one or two of them , as i read the first paragraph , i stopped and can figure out what was next. when i was in junior and high school , the main idea of my diaries was about study, describing the joy ,happiness, greif (main) during my study , especially after tests. and later, the topic swerved to love stories when i went to college . at that time love life was full of ups and downs, i felt unhappy ,but had no one to speak to ,and then i would turned to the diarybook. when i find my true love , i throw the diaries figuring out how innocent ,how fool i was .

No, I haven't kept my diaries from when I was a teen. I can't remember what I did with them. I'm pretty sure that I don't have them anymore, but I can't remember what I did with them, or what happened.

I always had a diary back then. I have a diary from when I was 10, when I was 12 and 13, when I was 15, and then again when I was 18. When I was 10, my journal entries were silly. ("OMG - Aaron Carter is sooooooo cute") and stuff like that. It's kind of entertaining to read, but there's obviously nothing really interesting that a 10 year old writes about. Like you, between the ages of 12-14 I was another angsty teenager, like you. My parents had a bad separation, mixed in with the regular teen angst garden variety of stuff (hating teachers, hating parents, hating homework, hating the government) - I don't like reading these journals because I am incredibly angry! All the time! I can't imagine being like that now. Now that I've grown up - I do have a xanga - I am a lot better. My entries are seldom, but when I do write, it's a mixture of feelings and things that have happened and weird stories. Sometimes I get angry, but it's not an every day thing like it used to be during my teen years. Sometimes it's funny to look back just to remind yourself how much you've changed over the years, though.

Hi porcospino... No, i never wrote diary. Once i started and wrote what i did one day evening that i drank, my parents read it and scolded me badly and from then, i have not written diary. have a nice time.

yes i have kept my diaries from when i was 7, i have them all in my garage, i even write diaries to this day, even if it's just a small insert, one day i may even get to write an autobiography

No..sorry am not fun of having diaries since my childhoo.I remeber in elementery, we had an assignment about diary and we will write it all what we did on that day...I have it ,but i did not keep it for i passed it toour teacher...Until now ,i dont have any..

I had some, but our house got burnt before. So I was not able to save them. And I am not too fan of diaries.