DO YOU LIKE TO KEEP A DIARY ?
@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
Moradabad, India
October 17, 2014 12:26pm CST
Diary is supposed to be very important and significant for them who always keep a diary with them. Some persons like to write their daily experiences in the diary and also write their personal emotions in the diary. One of my intimate friend is so much fond of diary as if diary is his life. Once he misplaced it somewhere, on that day he was so disturbed and restless that he did not talk to me.
Will you call it an addiction or habit?
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@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
20 Oct 14
I think diaries are great. Myself I create one and keep it for a period of time that makes it useful. I found something more like a journal than diary useful too and even went to a blog type of diary but that is something I restrict myself with.
I would call it a habit because if I do not use one regularly once created it will end very soon. I can do without one too, so not an addiction.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Oct 14
I never felt the need of writing a diary, but I like to read them when they are interesting, by example the diary of the Goncourt brothers. I think that some diary writers are pathological cases 
. I bought a volume of a 19th C. diary some years ago : it is about 150 pages, the guy was 25 years old, and it was volume number 18 covering 2 months of his (very ordinary) life. In the 19th C. a Swiss man named Amiel wrote about 17000 pages in 40 years, giving every detail about his life... At this level, I think it is a disease, like any addiction.
. I bought a volume of a 19th C. diary some years ago : it is about 150 pages, the guy was 25 years old, and it was volume number 18 covering 2 months of his (very ordinary) life. In the 19th C. a Swiss man named Amiel wrote about 17000 pages in 40 years, giving every detail about his life... At this level, I think it is a disease, like any addiction.1 person likes this
@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
20 Oct 14
I wonder if it had a purpose would it be useful? Something that is not interesting even to the person writing it might be of little value. I don't always understand "addiction" unless eating food is classified as addiction too? Just a question of curiosity.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
20 Oct 14
@Bluedoll It was a very good idea to introduce in this discussion the word "journal" in your response. I missed this point in mine. The Goncourt brothers called their diary a "journal" : they wanted to write about the literary world of their time, the writers they were meeting, the discussions they had with them, etc, and this kind of diary is still interesting to read 150 years later. A journal is written to pass something to others (to the general public or more modestly to the children and family of the writer), a diary is personal and not intended to be published. Except for a self-analysis, I have never seen the interest of a diary. Indeed eating food is not an addiction, it is a physical necessity, but one can be addicted to a particular kind of food (chocolate, sugar...).
@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
20 Oct 14
@topffer
Did you say you had free chocolates? Oh, yes chocolates, yes they are very addictive. Cookies with little chocolates in them are good too :-)
I might think about starting one after reading this for it would be good for having made observation like in how you described it because we all tend to forget things. What I have found useful one-time only was sending something to myself. Futureme dot org sends yourself an email into the future. I had forgot about writing it until the day it came.
@sunilmishra7756 i was wondering what was it that you were thinking about in the area of addiction or habit in using a diary?
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@DaringLucine (35)
• Shenzhen, China
21 Nov 14
In my opinion, it's a good habit to keep a diary. Actually, I really admire the person who insists writing diary ,especially write on paper. It takes much perseverance. I tried to build the habit to keep diaries many times in the past, and I bought several notbooks, I thought that it's meaningful to write something important, and the texts can call my memory in the future,but finally, I just could insist 1 or 2 months.It's a pitty. Nowadays, many people have computers, and many are used to keep diaries on line, and often share something with friends. I think relying too much on something is not a good thing, just similar to a person relies on cellphone, once he can't find his cellphone, he gets anxious.
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@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
• Moradabad, India
21 Nov 14
Yes, you are right.We can keep the diary but only for one month or two regularly. Now the smart mobile phone or tablet has replaced the diaries. I was very much fond of keeping diary and dictionary with me but now everything is present in mobile phone so I left this habit.If we do not keep pace with the time we will be lagged behind.
Thanks a lot.
@DaringLucine (35)
• Shenzhen, China
21 Nov 14
That's true.Now things change every minute, and we are always accepting new things. I remember that in my childhood, I didn't know how to use mobile phone, and it was not smart one like now. But now, many kids, even a 2 or 3 years old, they can use phone to play simple games. Time flies, and technology is getting advancing.
