Do you maintain a diary?

[Terxpahseyton]

I do very often analyse my behaviour, actions, beliefs, instincts, prejudices and so on, but I don't do that in a diary, or need a diary to do that.

Hm... I think if your thoughts and self-image has steadied down - saying if it follows a line so predictable and understood that it won't hold much surprise - then keeping a diary is of little use. I guess this means that you truly know yourself, Mise. Which is a good thing, I think.
I am not at that place. Moreover, I am scared of feeling predictable. I think I don't want to be predictable. However, I probably will become it sooner or later.

 

[The_J]

Never really thought about it. But no, I don't. I fill my agenda very strictly though, so I somehow log where I was and what I did.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, my diaries (as far as they exist) are consisting of sarcasm, desire for the death of some people, and quite often "Still not playing Fallout.". This is maybe one of the many reasons I get rid of them a day later when I read them again.

 

[Narz]

A diary might be necessary for Terx to know himself, but it might not be necessary for everyone.

I don't find it necessary, just entertaining to see where my head was at at various points in my history. Most likely I won't even check 90% of what I've written but it can be amusing to look back @ see what the heck I was thinking/doing. Kind of like reading my old posts. Again something I almost never do but its somehow comforting the opinion is there.

It'd be cool if technology was at the point where I could take snapshots of my brain everyday & then, in the future, hopefully when I'm happier/healthy/more together I can upload a simulation of where I was at into my head so I can remember where I came from.

 

[downtown]

I used to, but honestly, I write so much during the day that I kind of don't like doing it when I get home, much to my own detriment. It's been fun to go back and read some of the stuff I wrote in high school and college (and by fun, I mostly mean horrifying), but my journal-ing as an adult hasn't been so great. My wife is better at it.

I do take time for a lot of self-reflection and analysis...I just don't write that stuff down as often as I probably should.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I do -- or did. I've gotten very infrequent in recent years. I can't remember the last time I did it consistently.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've gone through times when I'd write consistently for a period of months at a time (usually when taking a trip or working in the theatre, since those were special times I wanted to remember).

Nowadays if I want to say something about my life, I'll either make a lolpic about it or mention it here.

 

[Narz]

Nowadays if I want to say something about my life, I'll either make a lolpic about it

I just had an image in my head of a gravestone with a sad-cat lolpic on it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I just had an image in my head of a gravestone with a sad-cat lolpic on it.

You've lost me.

My mother died in September, but I didn't make a lolpic about that.

OTOH, I did make a lolpic about when I moved and was feeling a bit overwhelmed about unpacking and trying to figure out where everything was going to be put:



(Please note that I would never, ever shut my cats up in a cardboard box. I have proper carriers for them that are comfortable and well-ventilated.)

 

[Narz]

You've lost me.

Not yet fortunately!

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Can some of my previous posts on CFC act as an ad hoc diary?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Probably the posts from Rants and Raves threads would do best.

 

[JollyRoger]

Dear Diary,

If I keep writing to you, I am going to need Viagra.

JR

 

[Lohrenswald]

On the whole diary contra journal thing- In german there is more or less only one word in use: "Daybook", so Terxpahseyton wouldn't have context for that divide, and I believe he just went with the translation he's heard most: diary.

I have a diary, but I hardly maintain it. I had some ambitions with it, basically what Terxpahseyton is proposing. I hoped it would be a decent arena to reflect on things.
But I found it really hard to keep up with it. Often I struggle to find anything meaningful to write, and when I do, it takes me several hours to finish an entry (they're somewhat long).