Do you keep a diary / journal?

[Angel]

And do you keep it online or off.

I had one when I was in middle / high school and I just read it earlier today. Looking back on what I wrote made me wonder why exactly I bothered keeping one. I never wrote about anything worth remembering, it was mostly about boys, hair and girl stuff.

Last year I kept an online one on opendiary.com, but I quit writing in it. I kind of liked the part where people could read it and give you perspective, but I just got tired of writing in it.

I just opened up a new online one for my webpage. It helps to use it to vent and get out all the chaotic junk floating around in my head. But this one doesn't garner feedback.

Why do YOU keep one?

 

[Fleshmachine]

I keep 3 actually. I was going to be a writer before I had my breakdown. Now I keep them just to stay sane and lucid. I love my journals because they shown how insane I really got before I got help. They keep me grounded.

 

[Angel]

You know, I kept my opendiary.com diary before my breakdown and after it.

I never once wrote in it during the events leading up to it, during it or in the aftermath. It was there, fully accessible and I never once used it. I was barely even online at that time. I even stopped coming here. *shrug* I completely shut down from everyone. I don't know why I did that.

 

[Todd]

what? and leave evidence for people to find?

 

[Fleshmachine]

I was self-destructive. My journals weren't evidence they were an explanation.

 

[Guest]

In high school I kept a diary.
I always had such high hopes of being someone big when I got older and with that little book I could help remember all the events leading up to it..

But alas..... my life is as dull as a pencil without a sharpener.....And I haven't written anything since then..... well diary wise

Poetry.... that I have written enough of....


I would keep one online... but then everyone would be as depressed as me..... not a happy thought.

 

[TonyG]

No I don't, but my mind is an open diary to a few chosen people.

 

[Fleshmachine]

Jaded I love poetry, especially poetry that conveys emotion. Do you ever let anyone read your poetry?

 

[Guest]

This one was published

Remembrance

Thoughts of you blow wildly
through my mind
Memories of our past
long since left behind

Remembering your smile, your hair
your eyes,
and the day we had to say
our last goodbyes

To love is to lose
what we once tried to possess
our paths were divided
as to why we can guess

Bittersweet thoughts
though they might be
I must lock them in my heart
and lose the key

 

[Angel]

I like that Jaded. Reminds me of mine.

 

[Guest]

I am making myself even more sad *Tear*

 

[Angel]

 

[InternationalFunboy]

I don't keep a jounal or diary exactly but the best thing in the world is my e-mail history......every word i ever wrote, every letter I get and my responses. It makes a perfect record of what I was up to...what made me laugh, people I met, things I did. I love going through that old stuff. All the inside jokes.....things that seemed so important at the time now don;t matter at all.....it's great.

 

[Fleshmachine]

I really liked that. I write poetry too, but I'm not brave enough to share. Thank you.

 

[Angel]

Why not?

 

[Guest]

Thank you..

 

[Fleshmachine]

Why not?

Because I don't think any of it is any good.

 

[Angel]

I hate all of my poetry too. I'll trade you one nobody else has ever seen for one of yours.

 

[Fleshmachine]

I hate all of my poetry too. I'll trade you one nobody else has ever seen for one of yours.

OK, how do you want to do this?

 

[Angel]

E-Mail? Click the button or angel@stormrealm.com give me a sec to type mine in.

 

[Xander]

I used to carry around this big ass ledger, worth three years of entries in it. About who I am, and what i felt, about anyone, down to the smallest detail.
You could basically read anything about me and my life, emotions and the such in it.
Even had place and date entries in it.

When i got to Georgia, I burned it.

[Edited by Xander on 05-15-2001 at 04:06 PM]

 

[Angel]

Oh my god, why did you do that?



Flesh - you have Angelmail.

 

[Fleshmachine]

I read your poem. You are more talented than I. I could feel your anger along with your sorrow. It is a very good piece.

 

[Xander]

Fucking double post!!

[Edited by Xander on 05-15-2001 at 03:51 PM]

 

[Xander]

Oh my god, why did you do that?

There was several reasons why I did it Angel. Some which, I am not overly comfortable saying out in public.
However what brought it on, was this.

I was reading through it one day down here, trying to find answers in it. I didn't find any.
I saw what I had written through those three years, I saw what I had been, and what I've become. And thought about what was going on right now, at that moment.

I just stood up, went into the graden where there was a big bonfire and threw it in.

New life, new chapter.