Do you keep a diary?

I like keeping a diary. I especially like the fact that you can look back and reminisce about the past. The only thing that bugs me is that I can't do it routinely. For some reason I will have big gaps in my diary. There will be months where I haven't written. I'm just not in the mood to write like I use to. Also, I sometimes just e-mail a page or two to myself. I treat it like a journal entry. I get to let out some anger and frustration when writing. I even somtimes cry while writing, which is hard because there comes a point where the tears cover up what you are trying to write. It's too bad that you burnt yours, but now you can start again.

yes i think that keeping a diary is bad. i have this one big bad experience, when i got sick and i could get hold of my diary. my aunt just read all of them one by one and i have these sick things i tell my diary about her. she got very angry and told my mom for me not to go to their place anymore =(

I prefer blogging. I write so that people WILL read it, rather than writing for myself. I make it a point of NEVER writing what I don't expect to be read. I could never really get into keeping a diary. Even the travel diary I bought for Arizona is lacking. I did write though, but it was more in a blog, or to friends.

I would have liked to keep a diary and like you it would have been nice to take it out and read it every once in a while. However, I have never liked the idea of putting my personal thoughts on paper as I wouldn't like anybody else to read it. I wouldn't even trust putting one on my computer, not even with a password.

I too have written diaries and burnt them in the past! I was in a troubled relationship, one that was on-again, off-again types. I had filled pages upon pages of that diary with tales of how my then girlfriend was mistreating me. But in spite of all that, I really couldn't see myself splitting up with her. I used to hope that things would be back to just the way things were when the going was fine. I had turned that diary into a part diary, part scrapbook. Apart from my own writing, I had pasted our photographs and even a strand of her hair!!! I had it for a long time, but then burnt it on an impulse. I feel liberated as I saw the book go up in smoke, but also felt pangs of regret that some of my best memories also went up in smoke. Looking back, I think that if I had not burnt it, I would have had a good laugh going through my writing as well as thumbing through those photographs. That diary was the first that I ever kept. I tried to restart my habit of writing down my day to day life, but never did progress beyond the first few days. Maybe it was boredom. Hardly anything spectacular seemed to be happening back then. Of late, I have started blogging. I have two blogs. I put down my abstract thoughts and philosophy in one of them while the other one is about my day to day life. Something of a e-diary. And it's public!

no i dont keep a diary.its just a waste because thhere are lot more other things to do in life.you should find time in your life to do more meaningful things.

NO! oh my god, if i wrote down all my thoughts and someone found it.. it would be very bad. some things must only remain in your head, and never come out..so no, no diary for me

i think diary should be maintained its a good habit it help us to maintain the habit of writting what had been done by me in whole day and its a good idea to maintain it if you are thinking that some one will read thats the interesting thing if you will out it password protected there will be no interest in that

I keep one online. I had a few before it as well..but burnt them too lol. I don't regret it. My memory keeps better than paper it seems, anyway. This new one I've had for a year and a few months now..I'm kind of deeply attached to it, since it's been there for me when I had no one else to talk to and get my thoughts out. So I don't think I'll be getting rid of this one.

My parents have always kept diaries. I started to when I was younger, but there was so little to write I just gave up, it read like, got up, had shower, went to school, came home watched tv!. However in later childhood my family and I underwent a lot of stresses and strains, and I've retained a lot of those experiences in my mind rather than as a written diary. At some point I really do want to get everything down on paper, I think it would help with the process of recovery, you know where you don't have to try so hard to remember everything, you are less worried about forgetting because you've downloaded it to paper. I do think diaries are worthwhile, and I think they will provide an interesting insight in years to come when you look back to see what your experiences and thoughts were at a younger age.

Yes, I have been keeping a diary ever since I was 13 years old. That time, I had no computer yet and whenever I need to write down something, I'd write in my diary. I also write in my diary when I was angry and I needed to vent out my anger. Through writing. That was the safest way. Nowadays, I still keep a diary but I don't write that frequently already because I'm spending so much time on the Internet. But, if anything interesting happened to me or if I went somewhere nice, I would make sure that I write about it in my diary. I find it fun to read back my previous entries. I realised how I've changed so much from an attention seeking young teenager to the person I am now. Well, I still seek for attention and I'm still a teenager but I am not that desperate like how I was when I was younger. Things change and people change.

i've been keeping a diary ever since i was 13 but i decided to burn most of my diary... i still have my present diary with me but i'm enjoying and loving blogging nowadays.. i love keeping it because when i feel bored i do read them and i can't help it but smile, i never thought i was feeling that way at that time...