writing diary improves personal growth...

I've been keeping a diary for years now. I use it to keep track of what I've done and when, so that I don't have to rely on my memory, which is not all that good anyway. I can refer to it if I want to know exactly when I sent a particular letter last month, or when I recieved a particular phone call and what was said. I use it as an extension of my memory in fact.

All writing has value and is never a waste of time, even if it is only read by the person who wrote it. I think diaries and journals are very good for gaining self knowledge, and in starting to write with feeling, learning how to use words to describe and record what happens in daily life.

I do believe that keeping a diary helps to improve personal growth. By keeping a daily diary, you can review all the events that happen in your life, and how you reacted to them. Reading over previous entries can show you the growth that you have made, and what problems you need to work on because they re-occur. That being said, I have always been terrible at keeping a personal daily diary. Even when I was in school, before I had children, I would start one, write in it for a few days, then it would end up being tossed aside because I have forgotten to write in it, or I felt that what I would have wrote in it wouldn't be interesting enough to note. Then all of a sudden its months later and I haven't written a thing. If you could give me some tips on writing daily, or finding ways to make diary writing engaging so I can be too enthusiastic to forget it, please tell me!

Writing might not improve writing skills, but it surely brings about a change in the person. They might write their problems down and find a solution by reading about the problem over and over. It usually happens that reading about something gives you a better understanding than listening or feeling. I used to write a personal diary, but I have stopped doing it because I keep all my things in my head where nobody dare touch it. bourne