Do you have a personal diary/journal?

My diary - My diary
@greengal (4286)
United States
December 19, 2006 12:27pm CST
I was just wondering, how many of us have a personal diary.I have one and I've been writing since I was in my teens. Now I'm in my mid-twenties, married, but still write what I feel. It definitely is personal since I write down my innermost thoughts and feelings.I change my diary every year so I can start afresh.I write anything ranging from what bothers me to what has made me happy or sad. i also make note of special events and moments in life.Do you write in your diary/journal? How often and for how long have u been writing?
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148 responses
• Philippines
19 Dec 06
i do have diary since highschool till now that i'm married. i just love to write every detail that happen to me on that day so that i will always rememebr that momment and at the same time the exact date
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Cool! I do that too..make note of important dates and time.
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• United States
19 Dec 06
I have been writing for quite some time. I write songs, poetry, articles, reviews. You should consider some writing sites. You can use a pen name, and if needed you can easily change the content to fit into a genre and make a little extra money on the side.
@greengal (4286)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Do u know of any. I'm currently registered with a poems website where people review my poems.
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• France
20 Dec 06
o i dont have a personal diary
• United States
20 Dec 06
sure I would be glad to help ya out, email me and I will send you some information of other sites that you might like to try out. they are all free to join.
@remaster74 (4064)
• Greece
20 Dec 06
Well, I used to keep one, but since I got married I stopped keeping anything. It is too pitty that some circumstances change your habbits.
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Ya it happens sometimes..but its not late to start now. I'm married too but continue to write my diary.
@patgalca (18162)
• Orangeville, Ontario
19 Dec 06
I write in a journal whenever I can - usually when I'm upset about something. I also have a prayer journal and gratitude journal. I don't write in them as often as I should. I also have journals for my kids about the funny things they say and the events that happen in their life so they can enjoy them when they grow up. I have kept all my journals since I was a teenager (I am now in my 40's) and I am also a write of poems, short stories, and novels. I just love to write - real or imagined.
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Wow..you've been writing for a really really long time!:) The idea of having a journal for your kids is very nice. I'm glad you enjoy writing!
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• United States
20 Dec 06
I also want to start a journal/diary for my baby so that he will have a record of what happened to him during the time when he still doesn't have memories yet. Unfortunately I don't like writing that much. I am starting a scrap book though and am just making sure that I add personal notes of the pictures.
@scarymary (124)
• United States
19 Dec 06
I've tried multiple times to start a personal diary and after a few days I stop keeping up with it. I never really know what to write or put it off until I forget. I've always thought it was so neat how some people have books on top of books of filled journals! That is such a cool thing to have to look back on and I envy people that can actually keep them going. :P
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@Jestin (560)
• Philippines
20 Dec 06
2007 Planner - 2007 Daily Planner
Same here. I'd start excitingly with a diary and will end up lazy after a few weeks or days. But I do have a planner. I always want to write down my schedule and look back at what I've done and which ones I wasn't able to do. I actually just prepared my 2007 planner today.
@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Hey that's a good idea! Maybe I should have a planner too!:)
@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
:) You should try again...I too don't write in it on a daily basis..only when I feel down or need put down my thoughts.
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@redmondn (33)
• United States
20 Dec 06
I've had so many online journals I can't even keep track of them. I changed them so many times. I always got tired of writing in them or I wanted to change the name, so I seriously have about 10 different journals. I just stopped writing in my most recent one and will probably make a new one and start again when I feel like it... I'm a complicated person...
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Lol,well as long as you are writing in one,shouldn't matter I think;)
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
19 Dec 06
I'm 35, and I still keep a daily personal diary, it helps me to remember things, I can be quite forgetful and its good to look back, to remember and cherish the great things you've done in the past and also it helps you to remember the lessons you haven learnt and it records your personal experiences so when you get old you can fondly look back. I have kept a diary virtually all the time since I left school, sadly some of the diaries got lost but I still continue and I have records of my life from ten years ago. My main worry is that they could get lost, or worst fall into the wrong hands!
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
19 Dec 06
Ya that is a concern. I haven't kept my old idaries for the same reason, I've destroyed them. Since they are personal its best to keep them locked away somewhere or to get rid of them if you don't want to risk it.
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• Philippines
20 Dec 06
yeah I do have a journal, I love to write and the journal helps me assess my daily goals and achievements.
@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
That's nice!
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@TasksGirl (216)
• United States
20 Dec 06
I used to have one but I have stopped and for some reason I just can't seem to get myself started again. I had ALOT of journals growing up and the sad thing is that one day I just up and threw everything away.. deleted most of my online journals.. now I would give ANYTHING to have them back because they document the period of time that I was with my boyfriend when we were still long-distance..
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Oh, that's sad! I've destroyed my old journals..only the ones I don't want to ever read back on..so I don't miss them.
@froogle (775)
20 Dec 06
yes, i do. but i do not write down! i type! i have a personal blog where i write about my life, what i am doing, what i did and what i am going to do. my friends, my crush list and anything and everything about me. am sorry, i cannot give you the url he he he
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Lol,well its your personal blog so I'm not asking for it!;)
@sudhajan (1219)
• France
20 Dec 06
dairy - dairy
i used to write but now i have stoppe dwriting mainly when my partner is not with me i feel to share my feelings with my dairy and we will get satisfaction inthat.
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• United States
20 Dec 06
I collect them. I think it is a wonderful way to vent. I don't remeber when I started writing in journals but I have since I was a little kid.
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Oh yes it is, I sometimes feel my journal is my best buddy..sounds strange but so often I've written things which nobody knows about and I can't share with anyone!
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@lelenoise (189)
• Italy
20 Dec 06
i have a diary but i don't write it every day, i just write poems or sensations sometimes, when i m in the mood
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• India
20 Dec 06
I don't have any personal diary. I was asked many times to make personal diary when i was in school. Now when i am in college i have been asked again to make a daily learning diary but i am not doing so. I didn't feel anything important to have that. Sometime i do think that i should have my personal diary but then i lost my path.
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
20 Dec 06
I used to for years. And I loved writing in it. And I write horribly badly and slowly and all that, but I still did one by hand. Up until it got me in huge trouble. And I've never kept a journal again after that.
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• United States
26 Dec 06
I used to have a diary. But since I have been living with my boyfriend I sorta forgot about keeping a diary. I think i should start writing my feelings down again at least if not in a diary in poetry which I used to like to write so much.
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
26 Dec 06
Oh you should start again!
• Italy
26 Dec 06
yes i think you must continue your diary if you love it..... Ettore
• India
20 Dec 06
hey i wonder peoples still have a diary of their own and write down their every moments in it. i m the person thinking of write down my diary since two yrs but i m not getting time becos of my job.... but its nice to here tht ppl still believe in such a subject and write down their past in their diary
@Legend950 (171)
• United States
20 Dec 06
No I used to, but I dont anymore.
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@pvinay (210)
• India
20 Dec 06
i have personal diary . in which iam writting my thoughts in the form poems . some times ideas come in the minds which i write down in the diary .
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@amafrias (455)
• United States
20 Dec 06
I have kept a diary since Jr. High, and I am now 37. I love to go back sometimes and read through important times in my life, or just the day to day years ago. I actually have two now. One I keep by my bed for my hubby to read when i am not looking, and the real one, put away. It's fun because I can put all kinds of nice things about him in the one I keep out, and he is so sweet after. I always know when he's peeked, because he gets real sweet. Sometimes I'll put something in I know he will want to ask me about, and he'll dance around trying to think of a way, but can't because then he would reveal he's peeking..lol
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@greengal (4286)
• United States
20 Dec 06
Lol..very clever of you to do that.;)Poor hubby..but its fun!Maybe I should do this too, that way my hubby's curiousity is satisfied and at the same time he doesn't know what I'm actually feeling..not in a bad way, but the good way:)
@amafrias (455)
• United States
21 Dec 06
exactly, it's not that I ahve anything to hide from him, but those are my personal feelings and thoughts meant only for me. I right silly stuff sometimes, and just stuff thats mine. We all need something that's just "ours" I think. It is funny sometimes to watch him though...