In My Early Teens ..

[Elina]

.. I kept a diary, looking back through it was really interesting to read about different events & how I thought about things/ viewed things from that time. At the start of 2016 ... now adult, would you contemplate logging a years events / thoughts ?

[Elina]

Mamya, that would be a wonderful thing. We don't want our children to go through these things, but it's life & who knows, your journal may even help them at some point x

[woofgang]

Elina, I don’t regret for one instant burning my teenage diaries. I wrote the adult diaries that I did because they helped me to brain dump at the end of long difficult days. I don’t want anyone to know what I did or how I felt or what it was like for DH and I. I put them away about 4 years ago in case I wanted to re read, but I know that I don’t and will destroy them this year. If there are children then it might be a consideration to keep things for them....but for me, things are private and should remain so.

[Elina]

I can respect that view woof!

[AlwaysConfused]

I kept a diary but my mum used to snoop and read it, she even managed to open the diary that had a lock. I soon used her nosiness to my advantage and kept a fake diary, reliving my own version of events for the day - for example what a great day I had at school, the laugh I had at lunchtime, the 'A' I got in art, when in fact I had skipped school and spent the day down the park.

I wouldn't keep a diary now, i can''t imagine it would be of any interest to anyone now or in the future

[Elina]

Lol always! Mine was read by my parents one night I didn't go home. It was all innocent, I'd gone to a mates after a night out knowing it was way to late to go home. I developed code writing after that! ;0)

[Zacs-Master]

I did it in 1985, just for a year, as it was the year I left college and hoped I would get a job (which I did). I'm basically the same person.

[Elina]

Do you still have it Zacs?

[Elina]

Tilly, I keep re-reading your post ... what an era to keep a diary!

[gness]

I kept a diary in my early teens......would like to read it now but my mother binned my belongings when I was fifteen....

I feel I should keep a diary now though......I have a dreadful memory..it may be useful when the police ask where I was on the night of.....??.... ;-)

[Elina]

Nooo Gness! Yes you should keep one! You have a colourful lifestyle LOL. Yes I'm reading .. if not posting! X

[Cloverjo]

I kept a diary in my teens. I still have it, and cringed when I reread it a couple of years ago. Some of the things I wrote shocked me. I didn't remember feeling about certain things the way I apparently did back then.
I'd be mortified if anyone found it and read it now, so I keep meaning to burn it.

[Elina]

But you haven't Clover ... fascinating to read your thoughts from a younger head!

[Zacs-Master]

I do Elina.

[Prudie]

I also plan to burn my adult ones. I would cringe if my family read about how pathetic and needy I was.

[netibiza]

I've kept a diary every year since 1977, it has solved lots of argument when I can look up a footy result for example. It is interesting to read back, and the fun we had!

[atalanta]

I have kept a (more or less) daily diary for many years. It has paid off, too - some while ago, I was burgled, and when the police came round they asked about shady characters, and sure enough there had been one on the doorstep some days before, as mentioned in the diary. Result - the police got him and he confessed to that burglary and others.

[DaisyNonna]

I used to keep a diary of holidays

[Caran]

I have kept a diary/log of everyone of our holidays. They certainly helped to stop arguments when we cannot agree where or when we went somewhere.
Also helps to decide if we want to go back to somewhere.