Does anyone keep a written diary?

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Does anyone keep an actual written diary of their life?
I was just searching through mine for some particular notes …the last ended about 2012 when I began using the Internet .This New year I plan to start writing again:) My father writes in his every night .
 
I have journals going back to the early 1990s but I only write a few times a month or when something out of the ordinary happens.
 
Mine kind of became like that towards the end,for a while I was writing the everyday things,then the not so good things or the happy events.Sometimes there were many blanks when days wern’t so good as I didn’t want my children finding and reading them in the future:) At some stage I’ll have to decide what to do with them,wether to sensor or just burn them.
 
I filled the Library of Alexandria with many of my journals and writings. After a few centuries, I grew tired of that collection…so I burnt the place down.
 
I never have because I’m concerned if I read the past writings I will focus too much on the past and things that have not worked out so well. I used to do that too much. Now I try to live in the present and move forward.

I know some who find it very helpful to work through feelings by writing them down.
 
Come to think of it,I would love to have read my maternal grandmothers diary in particular if she had written one ,to have known her .All my grandparents passed away before I was born,but she knew I was coming along 🙂
 
I could imagine!🙂 Ohh,some of mine the writing is soo tiny and now beginning to fade…id like to save some from when I was travelling.
 
I keep very versatile diary.
There’s even a list of sins, epitimia’s, horrible mistakes, relevant memories, rules and vows.
Sometimes the results of what the reflections are in two opposite columns.
This kind of comparison arguments, and attempt to explain myself- whether one outweighs the other arguments.
Since I study languages, I keep a diary sometimes in three languages at the same time.
Only I understand what is written there.
 
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Kind of like a spiritual diary combined with an every day event diary?
 
My mother and I keep diaries although they’re actually our yearly calendars. The only blank pages in hers are when she was in rehab in 2012 and earlier this year.

I write about the antics of my pets and the weather in mine. Plus the deaths that occurred that year. I remember when Archbishop Sheen passed away. And I wrote “Bishop Sheen died today.” When I looked back at that entry, I thought it was wonderful insight to have put that down. I also wrote about him when they had his funeral Mass. I was 19 at the time. Guess he left an indelible impression on me even then.
 
I meant the diary only on the basis of past memories. Probably I should keep a diary based on events and experiences. This is very useful for different kinds of analysis, especially the spiritual one.
I may want to try with the new year keep such a diary.😊
 
I don’t keep a diary as such, but have a notebook that I write some of the blessings I have received, meditations and some answers to prayers. I have to have tear out pages so that if I can tear out the pages that are a bit out of kilter. When emotion has been replaced by faith and reason, the pages can be replaced by a couple of lines, followed by thanks to God for resolving the issue and/or healing. It is good to revisit some of the special times with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
 
My maternal grandmother kept a diary, and my aunt kept them after she died in 1968. I do not remember being able to read them. My aunt has now passed and I think a cousin has taken charge of them, so I will check out which cousin has them.
 
I’ve done it off and on. The last time I was writing regularly in a diary it was during a very tumultuous time in my life involving a lot of drinking, sin and stuff I would prefer not to be doing and the diary was mostly a place to let out anger and frustration.
I also kept a greatly expurgated online journal for a while.
Both activities take energy and effort that I’d rather be putting into something else right now…plus my life has gotten very calm so I simply don’t have much to write about nowadays, which is nice. 🙂
 
Kind of, sometimes I’ll write down how I’m feeling and make them into songs, or short stories. They’re not always directly about me, and I don’t always use my name for the stories. I like to take the best things from real life, and write them down to make something out of them. And the worst things too.
 
I used to keep a journal of sorts off and on over The years. I too, found mine to be mostly writin about sadness or disappointments, usually with family. I also reread them and threw them in a fire one day. I would not want my family to read them.

I am old enough to realize that no one would really be interested in my thoughts and little things I saved anyway, so I read them one last time, and got rid of them.

I do keep “poems” I have written that I don’t care about people reading, or have even already shared with people. And I keep all of my little drawing of ideas and projects.

The new year usually inspires me to buy a blank book and do something.
 
I have a tote in the basement with my diaries/journals going back to 1979 I think. I was 12 when I started my first diary.

Anywho, I have a small diary I keep in my purse, a prayer diary I use during prayer, and a few Word documents that comprise, well, lots and lots of writing.

I never go back and read what I’ve written in the past. Couldn’t care less about what I’ve written.

I write to get things out of my head. I write when I’m upset, and I write when I need to think things through. Once things are written down, I don’t feel a need to go back over them.

I kept a diary when I was in the monastery – destroyed that one a few years ago because I didn’t want anyone to ever see it. I also destroyed a diary I kept around the time I got married, again because I didn’t want anyone to ever see what I’d written there.

Not sure why I keep so many of them. If they’re still around when I die, someone may get a kick out of reading what a 12-year-old me had to say about life… but I doubt it. 😂
 
I keep a journal, yes. I buy a book at Staples that has a lined page for each day of the year and that does the trick for me (because it encourages me to write a little or the highlights about each day). Those books are expenaive though.
 
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