What do people usually put in their diarys?
Im quite curious about this, i no everyone is different but what are the key things that are usually within a diary.
Im thinking of starting one.
The things i would probably put in it are,
What i do through my days, my feelings, my dreams, what ive been thinking about who ive been thinking about,
Is that what people tend to put in one?
And what are the main reasons for someone keeping a diary?
thanks x
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Yes, these are the sort of things I keep in my diary, though I call it a journal. Also, if I’m feeling strongly about something, angry, sad, lonely, or something else it helps to pour everything out into my diary. Writing like that helps me keep my emotional balance. It’s also a good record of my past which I can look up in future months or years and I find that useful. The record thing is a side effect though. My main reason is for emotional and creative outlet, and for planning out my future life. When I don’t write in my diary for a few days I feel wrong, like my mind has become tangled up and I feel the urge to write to straighten it out.
I suppose over time it helps you to learn about yourself, spot any patterns of negative behaviour and just keep an account of your life in general.
The diary’s I’ve kept in the past have mostly been about relationships.
I personally put different things in. I must have started about 10 and forget to write in them after a while lol.
But I usually write whats on my mind that day..
If some one said something that’s stuck in my mind,
Something I’ve enjoyed about the day,
An interesting dream,
Interesting conversations,
Gossip about people,
Theres lots of things you can put in them
but I always find it hard to start them off lol
My Diary just shows my work shifts and any holidays or overtime I do,Boring I know.
I’m a bit puzzled about diaries. A friend of mine (female, aged 67) always starts hers with ‘Got up’. My father-in-law made a terrible mistake of keeping a diary after he got married because he met another woman and had a Platonic affair with her, but wrote about it in his diary. He only ever referred to the woman as ‘B’ but his wife found the diaries and read them and quickly worked out who it was. After that he was always under her thumb. But then I think of someone like Virginia Woolf whose diaries are priceless.
However, the motive is an odd one. I have never kept one. The less people know about me, the better!
BUT I must add that I have my beloved mother’s teenage diaries and to me they are a treasure. They cover the war years and her school years, and they are, I suppose, a sort of social record.