Diaries: Did you have one?

I never had a diary and did not want one.

I keep a journal. I have several Traveler's Journal from TRaveler's Company in regular and passport size. They're made of cowhide leather and you can customize the notebooks and all types of inserts you want. Can even use it as your wallet. It's my calendar planner, my dump it journal, my travel journal, and gratitude journal. There was one point I used one of them as my wallet. The special one I have is from Prada, when they collaborated with Traveler's Company. As far as I know it was exclusively distributed in London. Not sure it was sold in other parts of Europe. I remember waiting for so long for it to arrive to me as I had my personal supper buy it for me in London.

No, I tried but after a few days, I forgot to write in it.

I’ve tried a few times to keep a diary or journal, but it never really stuck. I’d start strong, then after a while it just felt like an 'extra' thing I had to do, so I’d stop. I guess I’ve accepted it’s just not for me. But I like what you shared about your gratitude journal. That’s actually how it works, when you train yourself to notice even the smallest things to be thankful for, you start to see something positive no matter how tough things get. It really shifts your perspective in a simple but powerful way.

I kept a diary for quite some time as a teenager. Looking back, I wonder how I even had the time to do that but I evidently did. I went to school full time and worked full time (in high school!) and had to try to keep track of little sister at the time when I could. I kept them all in a little box. After I married, I didn't keep a diary anymore, but for some reason those notebooks were still in their little case through all of life's moves, etc.--until I couldn't find the case one time when I wondered where they were. I asked my husband and he said, oh, I threw them out. I was so sad and disappointed. He hauled around cases of stuff he wanted to keep and he threw mine out? Ugh. Well, at least I haven't had to worry about that kind of stuff anymore. Mine were more about feelings and life than about anything else, I think. But writing in them helped me through some hard times, like yours must have.

When I was in grade school and up to high school I did have diaries. I discarded it 5 years after graduating in college. But I still keep some of my scrapbook.

Yes, I have one, I always had one. I write every day what we did during the day and what we ate. it's important to keep a track, often doctors ask for those details.

Occasionally I'd start a diary but I never kept it up for long. My mother kept a diary most of her life but it was just about the day-to-day happenings.

I never had one.