Do you keep a diary?
Do you keep a diary?
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TheCarpetCleaner

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7,294 posts

226 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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Not as in appointments and stuff like most do, as in "Dear Diary, today I shoved a pineapple up my arse, and enjoyed it - but I am afraid to tell my internet friends" and stuff like that? (Well maybe not so anally pineapple based...)

A discussion arose at the pub and it transpired that another mate of the same age has been keeping a personal diary since he was 16, and updates it at least once a week, if not daily.

Never felt the need myself, although it may be interesting to look back at it 20 years or so later and think "Did I really think like that??!"


Nolar Dog

8,786 posts

219 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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Not a diary, no. But every few weeks I update my "book notes".

For whenever I decide to get it published.

Mojooo

13,287 posts

204 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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No but I reallllly wish I had done.

I am too scared of writing anything mega personal down and it being found.

Maybe more feasible nowadays doing it online somewhere so it cannnot be found by anyone.

TheLurker

1,543 posts

220 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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Nope. In some ways it might be a good idea, as you tend to forget a lot that you get up to!

TheCarpetCleaner

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7,294 posts

226 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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Mojooo said:
No but I reallllly wish I had done.

I am too scared of writing anything mega personal down and it being found.

Maybe more feasible nowadays doing it online somewhere so it cannnot be found by anyone.
That's what I was thinking - one of my gmail accounts or something.

Password is changed every month, so its unlikely to be hacked or ever found if it was never destined to be...

I certainly would not on paper.

soad

34,364 posts

200 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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TheCarpetCleaner said:
Never felt the need myself
Same here.

AlVal

1,891 posts

288 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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guess facebook is the modern equivalent, not that I'm party to any of that tripe

Mojooo

13,287 posts

204 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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I spose it depends on what you would put in it

I would have gone into quite a bit of detail of what i did and how i felt

when i was approx 10 we. as a group, wrote what we tought of eacother and ourselves and buried it. about 6 years later we got it out and it was amazing to think back at that and see how different and how much i had grown up from 10 > 16.

As a nostalgic person i would love to have access to that kind of stuff from 10 years old all the way to now.

okgo

41,551 posts

222 months

Sunday 7th March 2010
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No, wish I had though, too late now, mind.