Keep a diary.

that's so true. and you know, not even a diary's necessary, a livejournal works for me. in like a week i'll look back and cringe. lol.

So true. I was really depressed and then I wrote every single thing that I hated or borthered me and well a few weeks later, I was like Wow, I was a stupid stupid person. but it helps at times so do it =]

Juls

I had to throw my old diaries away, because they made me cringe. God, I was melodramatic as a kid - you'd think I was about to die every two minutes the way I complained about life.

I'm so glad I'm cooler than that now.

Lol this is so true, even if i read mine from like a year or 2 ago, i must say i felt very very stupid! lol

I found a diary of mine from when i was 7. It was the most hilarious thing I've ever read. =]

I never thought I'd ever kept one, but I have found remnants of things I've written when I was like 6, like a retarded drawing of giraffe -- it might've been a horse, or a kitty, it was happy! -- beside something about "I hate etc, kids at school are so mean to me"...god! I burned them right away! I remembered that one because I like the irony that was probably lost on me at the time.

but, yeah, I keep a journal. now. I go back read it over. it makes sense to me. even if it was just venting. in that moment, it was right.

I'm keeping a diary right now. Mostly just to keep track of things, the good and the bad...

I hope that I will look back when things are different and be able to see what it was like, what I was like then.
I'm prepared to read it and feel stupid. I remember reading a passage a few days ago when I was sounding doubtful about this couple that had recently hooked up. It had been very sudden, I was like ????! but now I know that they are the most loving and united people ever, so it feels weird to think that there was a time when I doubted them.

yeah, stuff like that you find from reading back.

//T.L.//

Dairy? Not not quite. I write in spiral note books often but I wouldn't call them dairy's because usually it isn't very discriptive about my life. I have gone on a little about my life in there, but it's mostly poetry, and for fear of some one finding any of my writting, it's usually pritty vage.

I have found some old writting of mine about my life before. I rememberig thinking, "man, that's just sad..." or "Sheesh, that's really boring". I'm a positive little twirp and have been for a long time, so spoiled doesn't come into my mind all that much... Although I could be spoiled if i let down the boundrys I've set for myself.

i used to keep a diary. until one day my mum found it. that day i will definatly remember. the things that were written in there, nearly killed her to know her baby girl was in that state of mind. now, i will not even consider making another one, i stick to my poetry, cause i found that my thoughts hurt more than myself. take care.

>> Beautifully Mistaken

Oh god yeah i've been through the whole mom finding the diary thing and i usually only write in it when im super upset or somethings bugging me or just basically all the bad stuff LOL so you can imagine what she thought when she found it and it killed her inside.
i felt horrible
but i told her that part of me getting better would be to have my privacy and she understood and she knows that when somethings upsetting me i wont cut anymore, i'll just write.

wow i ramble alot. lol

I recently read a diary of mine from when I was like 8...OMG!!! I was such a perverted little kid I swear. But its a laugh. I usually write now about both the good and the bad...but I just have to keep them away from everyone...because at some point I've said something about everyone I know (I think)...and I don't want anyone taking anything I say the wrong way...But it's good to let everything out (in a way).

I USED to keep a diary. I loved it, I miss it. It meant everything to me....I wrote in it EVERY DAY and it actually did become like a literal best friend to me through tough times.

And then you know what happened?

My parents went searching through my room, read my diary, went through my books, basically they ransacked my room tore it APART. But the most juice they got on me was in my diary....they used everything against me...and then burned EVERYTHING. Threw it in the fire, made me watch my life go down the drain. From that point, I haven't really written in a diary or a notebook since.

And all because it was a basic confession, written by hand. I was stupid actually. My mom used to TELL Me all the time when I was little to be careful what you put in writing, and I had completely forgotten that as I wrote in it.

So I'm not saying its a bad idea...

I'm just going to warn you all to be careful what you write, and then slowly back away.

Be careful. Please? A diary could be self-incriminating depending on who could find it. And I had truly believed my diary was safe...

Heck, I wasn't even a bad kid when they ransacked my room. I've always been a typical teenager with curiosities and whatnot. But not everyone can see things my way, I guess.

-backs away slowly-

OMG Angelina, I wrote poems when I was 16 and looked back not long ago. All the stupid things I did and said. I sat in my room just giggling and my daughter thought I had lost it...which is very true...LOL
Anyway, yes...a diary is awesome!! I remember falling in love and writing it in my diary. I almost fell of my bed when I read it!! It is just too comical!!

My mom found one of my least used writing things, and I guess took it with her when she went away for a while. During one of our phone calls she told me about what she found and asked me if I was depressed. You should have seen my face at that moment, all the color drained out and you could of sworn time stopped for a second. She let me talk though and I simply explain, ‘oh, no, I just like writing moody stuff….’ She went on to describe one of the entries and I realized that she was describing some thing that was very un-depressed for me… I’m hoping she hadn’t found the one where I wrote two pages on how horrible my parents’ pasts are, and how I’ll never be like that.

I guess I’m lucky in the sense that my parents don’t go searching through the files on my computer (where they wouldn’t find much anyway) or through the journals in my room. Speaking of which, I’m running out of paper!! I’d use the spiral notebooks my mom bought me and my brother for school, but no one was using, and right now she’s gone, I’m at my dads… No free to take spiral notebooks over here. >.<

It can be kind of dangerous, which is why all my poems (most at least) are so vague.

I have a diary right now and I write in it sometimes. I hide the key in a spot no ones going to even think to look and people know if they read it they are dead! But one time I pulled a stupid move and put some of my poems up on my website and my dad is one for checking out these things well my step mom and dad read my poems on there and they were all about cutting and he phoned my cousellor but my counselling is confidential thank god and he never found out. I had to lie to him so badly because I was actually really depressed, hence the counsellor.

When I went back to Australia to meet my brother after about 7-8 years that I haven't seen him, he told me that my mum had told him that I was into writing "dark" and emotional stuff... Well, I have only showed her two poems, and they weren't dark... she must have thought they were.
I suppose that having your poetry read, is just as bad as someone reading your diary.

Recently, I let my sister read my entire diary. It may be my imagination, but lately she has been acting much nicer to me... as though she got a glimpse inside my head.

//T.L.//

haha but then... if you had kept a diary... during a sad, depressing time of your life... and again re-discover it years later... through yet another sad, depressing time in your life... what would be the effects you think..? when you'd be taking your own advice and reading your past predicament.. if you're depressed wouldn't you not be thinking at the right mind? i keep a xanga.. haha for 2 years... i've read each and every one of my entries.. each a private entry since it's my online diary... and yeah, i've been sad with no improvement for 2 years. ^_^

keeping a diary is too hard 4 me ... lol

everytime i decide i want to start a diary i 4get abt it after a couple of daiiz ... :S ... so all u get is sumthin I've written 6 months ago ... then u remember that "oh yea, i was trying to keep a diary" ... and then u start writing again but u hav 6 months worth of stuff 2 say

but ... i think I'm in da wrong section ... I'm one of the most happy ppl there is ... ^^ ... mayb i should go 2 sum happy section ... lol

Lol, I use to to keep a diary too. Now when i read it, I laugh at the little things the diary points out.

Hey!! I finally found one of my dairys *waves it in the air* It goes back to like two years ago, up to some time around new years this year.

Let me just say >.< How ever you prounce that, I don't know. My entrys are all pethetic, expect that part about how I hated my friends of that time and planned on ditching them soon. I did, (well tecnicly I was kicked out) and now I'm happier, and I don't write quite as petheticly.... Oh, and also that part about Ashley and how much I hated her, that wasn't pathetic.... And one of the entrys was good until I read a refrence to a song that made no sense.

"Hey!! I finally found one of my dairys "

Lmao. It's diary. Not dairy. Journals. Not milk.

I used to keep diaries, but I recently stopped because my privacy was invaded a bit too much. However, I did read them after two years, and even then I laughed at many things I wrote.

I REALLY want to keep a diary but I am afraid to because my mom likes to raid my room when she gets angry at me. So I can't. So I keep everything in my mind. =[

I have a solution to my own problem.
I have found a site called www.my-diary.org

or you can also go to www.ask.com and type in online diary

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