diary jusslissen2me I dont need one. I think they are made just for people to see them some day when you leave it out or unattended. 020729 ... Farrah from Florida Wow. someone actually put something in here on the word diary. I guess i shall put something in here on that too. First off i would like to say that i am obsessed with this one boy who is obsessed with himself. Even though he often tells me how good looking he is. I act as if i dont care and usually tell him he's conceited when deep down inside i know that he is right. he is very sexy. if calling him sexy were a crime they'd have to put me under the jail. jusslissen2me, is this good or bad? 020729 ... phil a diary is like a home you forgot about. 030403 ... nomatter a diary is a place for twelve year old girls to write of how they will marry the boy next door. 031002 ... cupcake no, i think everyone should keep a diary, it's a way of remembering who you are, and it's someone to talk to who won't tell you're secrets 031003 ... once again When I started my diary five years ago I always assumed it would be forgotten about and left unattended in some pile in my room, but every now and then I wold find it and I would tell this friend the story of my life, every miniscule detail that no one else would have wanted to hear. I told it every thing and it got read and I cried, for it was one of the few things in my life that was truly me. truly mine. I have not started a new diary instead I wear myself as a new skin. I am learning how to be myself, despite what others think, I am becoming truly mine. 031003 ... syr0 Girls CAN write diarys. My thoughts are muddled, I don't even have a mental diary. I wish I did. 031205 ... misstree i can't count how many diaries and journals and poetry books i've had. some die with only a few entries in them. some get filled up, every page. black and white composition books have the hard back proper for perching anywere with automatic writing surface, and being able to be opened completely is a bonus, but any hard-backed book may be my prey. a person i barely knew hand-made me a journal when i was in new_orleans, a slew of 8.5 x 11 pages in a dozen colors, lines printed on each, and a hand-sewn patchwork cover, complete with pocket on the front. whenever i was bored and/or had something to say or a story to tell, i would write. i have reread many things, refelt the passions, wondered at my first impression of people and things that time has taught me much about, but left me with a complete picture rather than a timeline. ink is much more indelible than my poor faulty brain. the back of most is a mishmash of half-finished poetry, shopping lists, phone numbers, quotes, thoughts, and the flotsam and jetsam of the thoughtstream. a journal makes me take my time, makes me write only what is worth the time shaping letters with my pen, lets my mind race ahead and build the words before they appear. each diary has a different flavor, from the personal triumphs and dramas and downfalls, to obscure mystical conjectures and revelations. soon, i will hand one of my journals to a very good friend. just a wee bit scary. 031205 ... sally maybe if you are nice and if i like you otherwise no you can't see it, if i dont like you i want david to be my number one 040322 ... bridgeburner A diary doesn't have to be a basic outline of the day. It's feelings and thoughts. When I was twelve it was 'Today I saw Chris and we held hands' and now it's I hate Chris and I wish this could just go away. Things mature. People do. Things change and that's the need for a diary. 050325 ... tikezac Every day I have to write. Whether it be in a diary or notebook. If I didn't write about my life, I'd hold it all inside and it would build and fester. I don't want anyone to read them except myself. I need them. 060117 ... emmi just think of me as the pages in your diary 060128 ... 2995 a diary is a friend just waiting to here what you have to say. No it doesnt give advice or tell you what to say but it is always open 060520 ... re_alisma i have a lot of them, and i'm always going back to them to figure out what i knew before, that i've now forgotten. i'm always entertained, and sometimes i rewrite and expand upon them. you know, diaries are where it used to be. a traditional form of writing. sometimes memoirs, i guess, and sometimes the way we decide what we've been thinking about. nothing wrong with that. 100823 what's it to you? who go blather from