How long have you kept a diary or a journal?

i was bery rare to keep a dairy except in a bad mood or very happily.
and i don't care others to read it .if my friend want to understand me more it will be a plesure to show the deep part of me

I've kept a journal since I was eighteen and write in it a few times a week. That's been about eight years now. When I was younger I would write about important things that happened, but I didn't really have a regular journal.

I never knew you kept a diary.:) . So I guess there goes all your darkest secrets:))

I tried a couple of attempts to have my own. some of them lasted only weeks and others for months. I had one that I kept for almost a year and I tried updating it during special occasions. That one actually almost ended up being a short book of fiction as I tried to fictionalize happenings in my life. It's fun that way. A diary doesn't always have to be all serious and real. Sometimes I think your diary can be your outlet into creating a new persona of you. Eventually that's were writers get their inspiration

Oh wow I started journal writing when I ws just a kid..but then I stopped for several yrs (for various reasons) and started up again in my late 20s...I still to this day (I'm 39 now) keep a journal but dont write in it nearly as much as I'd like or as I use to..

I write my diary as well. But some details i don't pass it on online diary. For that i use chandler program. It is do-list and notes program which i use for diary. Notes area of that software is good for diary. You can use laptop and such diary software so that you can have problem with the privacy. You can even encrypt your diary and accessible only to you. Use digital diaries in case if you can manage working with them else stick to traditional diaries.

Your diary with lock is very old design and it is rare now a days. I don;t think we'll find such diaries now. Rare diary you can say.

I do keep a diary and have been writing it since last 15 years.I write daily and with accounts of what happened and my thoughts and well, every day in my life is a happening day and well,its always nice to keep a diary to remember the times.Thanks!