do you keep up daily with your diary?

Diary cover - Cover for diary in gold metal mesh on leather. The book mark is of dark brown mink fur, with a satin ribon inside.
Netherlands
August 27, 2007 4:23am CST
I was wondering how many of you have a diary, a daily journal so to say, and write faithfully in it, and daily? I used to keep one until the year 2000. Than I decided to quit with it as I started with writing my online journal, that later became many, many blogs, too many to count. I missed it somehow and decided to buy a very nice cover for a new one and will attach picture of it here. Please share about your diary, and how important is one for you.
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14 responses
• India
27 Aug 07
I keep 6 diaries.1. day to day events plans and expenses. 2.Important events happened for my family members, friends and relatives.In a seperate section things regarding the repairs, warranty periods of elec.items,the dates when the technitians like plumbers, elecricians come and do services. 3. Important expenses. 4.The happy and annoying moments in my life. Here I write my feelings. 5.Tour.6.My personal, my ambitions etc. My hobbies.
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• Netherlands
27 Aug 07
Wow, these are many! My compliments to keep up with all of these and to have the discipline to go on with it. Great idea though, to have separate diaries for all the things you mentioned!
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• China
28 Aug 07
from your describe i guss you are a person who do things very carefully.It's a good way to write diaries.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
28 Aug 07
i have a diary. but i only write there when something big happen to me like a heartbreak, a depression, an emotional turmoil, or anxiety. it kindof acts like a shock and guilt absorber. ^__^;; but when i was in high school, i amazingly had something to write on it on a DAILY basis! with matching theme song for the day! LOL when i go over my things and see it and read it, i just laugh and have a good reminiscing moment. ^__^
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
This is also the point of a diary according to me Secretbear. There are different type of diaries as there are different people ;) For me personally, when I write - I feel lighter and less moody afterwards, so it helps me a lot to deal with depressions, or worrying things in my life. Besides the fact that there are some little diamonds burried among other things, and after years when you look back at what you have there in your hands you might get inspiration from what you was thinking while writing it down ;)
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@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
28 Aug 07
I don't. I have tried many times, and I never remember to keep it up. Then I get discouraged.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Hi Cutepenguin, welcome to the Club than ;) But I am going to try to do it again, until it works and if there is a calling inside of you - you should maybe try it too ;)
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@rosie_123 (6113)
27 Aug 07
No - I don't. I used to when I was a teenager - you know typical teenage girl stuff - mostly about boys! LOL! But after I went to University, I was too busy out having fun to find the time to write in it, and I've never taken it up again! I do have a diary - I get a little one from my Dad at Christmas every year just as I have virtually all my life - but it's just full of birthday dates and appointments to take the cats to the Vets for their innoculations, or my dentists'/doctors' appointments! Nothing exciting at all!
• Netherlands
27 Aug 07
I know what you mean Rosie, but you still keep important stuff in your diary, even if not in a novel like style ;)
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@xiuluoelly (1224)
• China
28 Aug 07
I like to write diaries, but I did not write every day, sometimes feeling nothing to write things, sometimes so tired because it's lazy to write, but I like this feeling of my slump.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
It doesn't really matter if you write daily or not, according to me. What matters is that the ideas and important things are still there, written down, and to be found in your diary, for yourself or your loved once ;)
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• Malaysia
27 Aug 07
My daily diary all well kept in Yahoo...never miss even for one day since the year of 2000 until now. It easy to manage and organized and firmly believed that Yahoo will never end until I die. For me it is the best way and really suited with my life style....the best for me!!!!!! The Little Me, Michael.
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• Netherlands
27 Aug 07
That's a long time, almost 7 years now, and always kept it going - good for you Micheal ;)
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@jmafofo (359)
• South Africa
28 Aug 07
I have never kept a diary in my whole life, I tried a couple of times and it just isn't my thing. I feel bad getting the yearly diaries from work because I just never use it for what it is meant for.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Hi Jmafofo, don't you worry, the time that you'll get the urge to write in a diary might still come to you ;)
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@estherlou (5015)
• United States
28 Aug 07
I've tried keeping a journal many times. I'll write in it and then 6 months will pass by. I think it's a good idea of something to pass down to your children, especially if they live far away from you as my son does. It is a way for them to look back and get to know things about you they never knew. I picked it up again the other day and perhaps will try to do better about writing in it. Our thoughts are fleeting and gone quickly. It would be nice to have a record of things we were pondering and stewing about and that were important to us at a time in our lives. It could be a kind of legacy.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Exactly Estherlou as this is the point - your important thoughts will not be gone and forgotten once you have wrote these down :) and the once that will read it after a long time has passed by might learn a lot from it and appreciate it too ;)
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@AnythngArt (3302)
• United States
28 Aug 07
This is something I have a hard time doing consistently. In "The Artist's Way," Julia Cameron suggests doing "morning pages" to help the writer get the juices flowing. I keep telling myself to get into the groove, but I think I really need to work at being consistent with journaling. Just recently I started a blog: http://readingandreviewing.blogspot.com/ and I have been pretty good about doing this everyday, but I just started, and it's a review site, so I don't have to think about what to write, for example. Good luck with your journaling/writing!
• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Thanks AnythingArt ;) Blogs are ok, but are not for private thoughts, unless you'd like the world reading these of course I have 100'ss of blogs myself and it's not diary whatever they tell you, that this is online journaling, well, sure, but not for private thoughts, andf secret happenings ;) Good luck with your blog btw and I like how it looks & feels!
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• United States
29 Aug 07
Thanks for visiting my blog. You would be surprised what some people put on their blogs. I really started mine just as an organizational tool, to have all my reviews in one place. Your post really made me want to try and go back to journaling every day!
• Malaysia
29 Aug 07
I've written a journal before. However after somebody in my family read it, I don't have the heart to write any journals anymore. I feel there is no need to have a personal journal if somebody else can invade my privacy and read it without my permission. I prefer to write in mylot where everybody can share with me all the ideas in the world.
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• Netherlands
30 Aug 07
Hiya Lastsurvivor, this is too bad, and personal writings should be exactly personal. Maybe in this case you could opt for one which has a locker on it? ;)
@Zelmarq (12585)
• Cebu City, Philippines
28 Aug 07
I used to write daily before but now Im too busy to write everyday. I onl write when Im sad or extremely happy or sometimes never write at all im very busy now adays.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Hi Zelmarq, even if you write only now and than you still do it, which is great. You could always go back and write an other thought, or happening because it's there for you ;)
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@andrejuly84 (1047)
• Romania
28 Aug 07
oh,there is so much time since i wote the last time in a diary.that's because don't have enough time and then because i have so many secret thoughts i never like to read someone else.is hard to hide a diary in my home so anyone find it
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Hi Andrejuly, maybe you should get one wit a lock on it ;) or do it on your computer under a locked directory, just a thought ;)
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@katkat (2378)
• Philippines
28 Aug 07
I have one before but I lost it.Since then I never got to have a diary.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Hi Katkat, maybe you dont need one right now, but if you feel that there are thoughts going on in your mind that are worth remembering, you could always get one again ;)
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@kellyalex (151)
• China
28 Aug 07
I like the cover of your diary.I don't have the habit of diary,although i wanted many times.maybe i'm too lazy.I keep all the impressing memories in my mind.
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• Netherlands
28 Aug 07
Thanks kellyAlex, i am just back from the bookshop where I purchased the diary for this cover, and it is a very big one, so it is not a year diary, and I might finish the book in it very soon, or it might take more than a year, but this is not the important thing, whatever will come in it will come, slowly or quick, - no matter, what matters is that i am up to start the diary writing again ;)
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