Do you keep a diary?

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I should keep a diary. I think it would help me a lot.

I don't keep a dairy but my brother did work on a farm. We used to have a milking shed when we kept goats and a milking machine.

I tried.

It mostly contains rants of more or less the same things.

It's also coded because I cannot trust people around me to not be nosy.

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A man by my name kept a diary for about ten years between he was 15-25. I was very surprised when I put it down from the shelf and read it a couple a years ago. I had no idea that the writer wasn't me. I have thought of myself as an older and wiser version of that person. That wasn't the case. Step by step whoever wrote that diary has since that changed and eventually turned into the person that is me. Because I wasn't around when that diary was written.

My diary is going to turn 6 the next month

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Maybe if I find a way to make very concise summary of my days instead of going into too much details (that can take several pages and hours with possible headaches and rewrites because screw crappy memory), or the same loop of thoughts and feelings because it's the strongest feeling I felt regardless of what happened during the day.


Maybe diaries shouldn't be an emotional thing to me. I'm already in excess of feelings, I don't need more in any other aspects of my life.
And writing about it over and over doesn't make it go away.

Maybe I should never infect my writings with whatever unwanted expressions of emotionality I want to get rid of if I start to write a diary again.

At the same time, I don't want to 'lie'... I just want to stop ranting, be this emotionally based and writing things over and over uselessly.

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My diary will turn 7 next month, on September 22 Has anybody else started to keep a diary on their own since the last post of mine posted by me in this thread?

The whole diary / dairy thing is exactly why I call mine a journal.

I always think I should when I'm trying to remember when something happened and exactly what happened and how I dealt with it and felt about it. But it's never gonna happen.

My diary is almost 7 as of now More precisely, it is going to turn 7 on August 22 I mentioned in it so many events from my life - like developing new obsessive interests, the deaths of my two aunts, the pandemics, my mother's womb surgery and so on. I have also three other brand new notebooks in which I'll start writing when I'm done with the third volume of my diary. I won all of them but for the second volume of my diary. The first one resembles a black magic grimoire - it is handmade and has a red leather cover with the face of a demon on it, the second one is cute, pink and feminine and the third one - the last one - has a navy blue cover with a simple white star pattern on. My three other diaries that await being filled with my writing, are in turn a Paperblanks notebook with a simple yellowish cover and the next two are Peter Pauper notebooks with their covers adorned with the flower pattern.

I have a question: do you remember all those events you have mentioned in your diary after many years that have passed? Because I do. I happen to read from time to time that someone who keeps a diary, can't recall many events they have written about in the past but nothing like that has ever happened to me - maybe that's because nothing very interesting is happening in my life?

I do not keep a diary.

But I compulsively retained financial records. I logged my financial transactions and kept cash register receipts, bank statements, etc. I started doing this in the summer of 1973. Unfortunately it was on paper! So I had a bunch of records I could not use.

As time went on I got a PC and was able to keep digital records. And in 2015 I started scanning all of the old paper records. Once I had scanned something, saved it on a couple of thumb drives (one for stashing at home, one for stashing at my bank) I could shred the old paper.

So far I've only scanned my way up to 1994's records. But it makes me happy.