Before blogging, I was addicted to the traditional good old diary. I used to love my diary, the fact that I could write anything about anyone, and yet no one would judge me. I had a sympathetic ear to all my problems.
When I had a bad day, I could crib about how life had been unfair, and people cruel to me. How I had been treated wrongly, and why I deserved better.
When I had a good day, I would be full of joy, and those emotions would flow freely on my diary entry. The feeling of being on the top of the world.
My crushes, friends, foes, feelings, my innermost thoughts – the diary was privy to all.
I would feel so much better on venting out there. And I would be free from any fear that my secrets would be leaked.
The best part of keeping a diary was that you had a way of going back in time. It was precious. With the amazing memory that I have (please note the sarcasm), I absolutely loved reading my previous entries. The hopes I had, my expectations, my predictions for future and then turning a few more pages to compare how things had actually turned out.
Reading what I had previously wrote, almost always looked childish, in hindsight. But I was always thankful that I had such pages to go back to.
With the introduction of laptop in my life, writing by hand has taken a backseat, now all the diary entries are online. I still think paper is better, but with almost 24 hour access to laptop, one has had to choose the latter.
When I started out with blogging, I thought it would replace my diaries, but over time I have realised that the two serve different purposes. I am not so comfortable with the blogging medium to make it privy to the thoughts that only my dear diary knew. I guess I’ll have to make do with email and word documents for the time being.
I went home a couple of days back, and Mom gave me some of my old stuff to clear out. In that was a torn page, with my handwriting scribbled all over. Before throwing it out, I decided to check what it was, and it turned out that it was a page from a notepad, which I turned into diary in a hurry. The page contained some college time incident and other cute memories :D. The page is now carefully folded and kept in my purse for instant cheering up when I need. Good idea hai na?
Did you have a diary to spill out all your secrets?
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I never had the time till I worked. After quitting my career, to take care of my girls, I used to write – maybe for a year or two and still have them – precious thots !!! But cant write anymore. I relate to your thinking that whatever u write in ur diary, cannot be blogged about. Now, we have audience, right ???
Wish I have some time to write a diary…but if I’ve that time, I’ll be blogging more, I guess… π
Hey, I am FIRST !!! π
Yay, you are first time first, double fun!!
Exactly, now with an audience, it is difficult to do so.
Hehe, blogging trumps diary? π
I still feel the need of a diary sometimes..things that I want no one else to know, yet I want to say them out loud.
I used to have a diary, but gave that up when sisters insisted that they won’t just let it be and that they will read everything. Sigh. π
Poor you!
Bro and Mom, let me be, so thankfully, I could write loads of arbit stuff π
Try writing it on comp, maybe pwd protected?
Oh getting that college-incident written paper is so precious no π
Yes! I hd a diary too π Venting out in writing does make us feel better π
Very precious π
same pinch
Diaries- can be dangerous!
And sometimes in a fit of anger you may write things which are unpleasant. And especially with me. I would write only when I was sad and it was somehow negative!
Writing a journal is a good idea for someone who really can share all the feelings in a book.
I now have a person to do it with! π
Oh, they can be very dangerous… I had a couple of entries full of anger too.. It is a great place to vent, with no one judging you, you can write whatever you feel.. Though extreme care has to be take so that it does not fall in the wrong hands π
Who is the lucky one π ?
i had a diary too and i remember most of it being written in code abt my then crush!!! π sweet memories
Haha, the crush entries.. they are fun to read when you are over the crush π
And the code.. the code names for people… I even wrote some stuff in pencil so that I could erase it out later π
I have old blogs, stashed and hidden somewhere online. And I love going back to them all the time!
You can almost see yourself changing so much over the years through the old stuff..
Always a good read π
No Diary, but generally, I have a lot of old stuff stashed away to cheer myself up! Greeting Cards we painstakingly made for our parents, letters I wrote, some couple of poems, “art works”, random articles, slam books and what not! It’s fun to look back at the stuff! π
Wow, you made greeting cards, we were never very big on that stuff :(.. though I got a huge one recently when I left my last job.. It has people signatures and messages all over and even some cartoon sketches .. random .. I absolutely adore it !
I never quite got used to writing letters.. there was just the one I was made to write to my cousins over raksha bandhan..
Slam books!!! Oh.. very very precious π
Not really for me.. I did start a diary a couple of times but it got left behind after a few months. But did have a diary for songs and their lyrics and maintained that forever.. π
Even my diary had long gaps and many restarts π
I made several attempts at diary writing but wasn’t quite successful at it. However, the feel of pen pencil on paper is so different – like those lovely long letters we used to write and receive in the ‘old’ days….
The only negative side of your diary would be that we wouldn’t have got a chance to read your great posts. So do keep writing here for us ….and elsewhere (diary/docx) for you. π
Yes, writing what you feel with a pen and paper is a much different experience, with no backspace to erase the words.. I tend to think a little more before writing
π π Thanks *blush blush*
I had a diary, I had my own ‘language’ too π Even if you stumbled upon it, you needed me to interpret it for you π
shhhh top secret π
Though I did away with the diary, I tore the pages having my own ‘language’ and its locked up somewhere safe π π π
That is such a cool idea :D.. I did not have my own language.. but I tried to obfuscate the names of the people I was writing about as much as possible, so that no one would know who I was talking about π
He he π
Good work.. those diaries can be very dangerous in wrong hands π
Absolutely! I have 4 diaries and the happening school life is chronicled in them but ever since I started blogging, writing diary entry has taken a backseat. There are some little secrets hidden away in my diaries though π
My diary writing is also taken a backseat since blogging π¦
Secrets in diaries.. the perfect hiding place π
Nope.
But I have a private blog too, now.
private blog.. hmm.. that is a good idea too… just that even the thought that what I am writing now, could possibly be over the internet where anyone might be able to read… even though it is private for the moment.. .. scares me from trying that option.
I had a couple of diaries too π Angst filled at times, and at times about what i ate last π It’s an awesome feeling to revisit them!
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Its awesome to re-read and revisit the times a couple of years back!
yeah…. I can so definitely relate to this… for a long time, I did not reveal my blog link to people who knew the real me… and even now, most of my friends dont know about my blog.
Still, there are loads of unpublished, draft posts and several other scribblings that will never be published !!!
I still haven’t told any of my friends about the blog.. I don’t intend to either.
@unpublished and private posts π π π