Do you keep a diary?

[Godwynn]

I have too good of a memory to keep one, and too little time.

 

[Kozmos]

I made one single entry then a vision of Ahnuld the Governator appeared in my mind and he said to me these wise words "Cleric only girly men keep diaries,you are not girly man.Now go out,get drunk and kick ass."

And so I have.

 

[Oruc]

seems a bit too angsty to me

 

[7ronin]

seems a bit too angsty to me

Not to mention labor intensive and dangerous.

 

[Narz]

I wrote a lot at boarding school. I have seven or eight boxes filled with notebooks from stuff I've written during my teenage years and early adulthood.

These days I mostly write to others, the main writing I do for myself is To-Do lists and goals.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

seems a bit too angsty to me

Y'don't HAVE to put in angsty stuff though. Shout happy thoughts!

I never really keep a journal. I have a couple of online blogs which I shout at sometimes. I do agree it can be very soothing sometimes.

 

[Oruc]

shout at??

 

[Bluemofia]

I have a blog that I update that is sort of like a diary. I post in it my thoughts and stuff every Monday and Friday.

 

[CartesianFart]

I can't write into a diary due the fact that i randomly self-abase myself every year of my life as long as i can remember.I do that anyway without needing the reliance of having so-called thoughts being put down on a piece of paper.I would look at it with more horror of how stupid i was when writing such things.

 

[Bluemofia]

I can't write into a diary due the fact that i randomly self-abase myself every year of my life as long as i can remember.I do that anyway without needing the reliance of having so-called thoughts being put down on a piece of paper.I would look at it with more horror of how stupid i was when writing such things.

I do that so I can look how stupid I was before, and learn a lesson about myself. And to track my thoughts and stuff over time.

 

[CartesianFart]

I do that so I can look how stupid I was before, and learn a lesson about myself. And to track my thoughts and stuff over time.

Well,i don't know how you do it,but i feel that the older i get my beliefs come to be modified to make sense of my world,and with the writing down on a piece of paper is meaningless for me since that my very passing of time already constitute how i percieve the world have change beforehand.How can i percieve my former self when the present self is something totally different?

I always was fond of William James quote of saying the "present thought is the present thinke.r"Why does it matter to occupy myself with past self when the only true reality is what goes on the present.

 

[Bluemofia]

Meh. What I do is just write down my thoughts, and when I have time, I look back on them to see what I was thinking, and examine the patterns, and see how I have changed, and if possible, attempt to predict how I will change.

And then admire how stupid I was back then.

 

[Kyriakos]

I can remember a time when i too thought that my way of thinking changed all of the time, and was of the view that it was due to constant development. However it is far more probable that then it is changing due to an ever-present need to reposition defense-mechanisms, and the pattern of re-positioning is what remains stable, whirling everything else around it.

Writing notes about how you view your parents now and in the past, and how your views about them influence you, is a good idea to get you started, since in reality everyone was heavily influenced by his parents, and very frequently the influence itself has mistakedly been seen as already evaluated.

Also you may want to look up a state called 'celebral narcissism'. All forms of narcissism include a "false sense of self" and in that case one's thoughts can really be identified with the person as he is thinking of them, but this can lead to dangerous mental paths.

 

[Leonel]

I don't have a diary but I do carry around a bunch of small sketch books for when I have idea's or feel like doodling. I have one sketch book for graphic design stuff and another for recreation, like thumbnails for comics, etc.

 

[Abaddon]

i vaguely do on myspace.

 

[thetrooper]

Do you keep a diary?

Yeah, for one single day. Threw it in the river.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

What did you write on it that made it so top secret you had to take it's life ...

 

[thetrooper]

Sorry, can't tell you that. Would change the world forever.

Naw, it was just 'emo' crap so I threw it away.

Note: I'm using the term 'emo' here even though I don't know what that means.