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[Existentialist1844]

Does anyone keep a personal journal?

Should I start?

Hm...............

[Bella Fortuna]

I've kept them since I was 16, off and on.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I kept one from 1970 until last year.

[Existentialist1844]

I've kept them since I was 16, off and on.

Hm, it would interesting to look back 30 years from now and see what I wrote.

[Existentialist1844]

I kept one from 1970 until last year.

That would definitely be an interesting read.

[Kristie]

I've never kept one. Although, there are times that I wish I had.

[Bella Fortuna]

Actually, I had occasion last week to read back in some of them - it was weird and interesting, I feel like an entirely different person now.

[Animavore]

Actually, I had occasion last week to read back in some of them - it was weird and interesting, I feel like an entirely different person now.

Well your cells have regenerated enough times now so you actually are a totally different person.

2:10 onwards is relevant to this.

[AshtonBlack]

I started to when I was a angst ridden teenager. But I bored myself to tears, an example:

"Oct 14th: School. Went out with mates after. Had tea. Wrote this. I hate the world!"

[Clinton Huxley]

Personal journal?!? The first, dangerous step to rampant narcissism. Stop while you have the chance, or you will end up like Tony Benn.....

[Transgirlofnofaith]

No. I think that it is a more valid way to live when one accepts the ebb and flow of experience and memory, letting most things fade and fly away like dust on the wind, and having special moments in one's life marked by the natural shaping of memory, being filtered though a sepia haze, rather than have solid reminders that fix the way we see things from then on.