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Why aren't you keeping a diary, /lit/?

>> No.7092216

I keep a journal in the sense that I write down what I do every day quite exactly down to the exact things I eat and such, but I don't do 'musings' since they don't hold up longer than five minutes.

>> No.7092228

>>7092122
Because whatever I do in life, or feel is not interesting enough to write down.

A better question is why people feel the need to write a diary at all.

>> No.7092248

Many do not feel need to write diaries/journals, but may understand the advantages of reviewing thoughts and events through writing. I keep a journal to practice writing and to record thoughts that are most likely to end up in the waste-basket of my memory. An entry in my journal of more than two pages is rare, and entries are made infrequently all the same.
I can see it being used for accurately remembering what I was thinking/feeling in an important moment and for others to understand me when I'm no longer able to tell them.

>> No.7092254

Because I've got Twitter and I'm always around people. My private soul is of no use to me.

>> No.7092258

>>7092228
Therapeutic tbh, you don't write to keep those thoughts conserved, you write to get them out of your head and 'objectified'.

I know a lad who burns his diary every year.

>> No.7092261

>>7092258
>Therapeutic tbh, you don't write to keep those thoughts conserved, you write to get them out of your head and 'objectified'.

But thoughts are just transient. They don't get conserved in any way, unless you let them.

If you need catharsis that bad, I suggest a psychologist.

>> No.7092268

>>7092228
Why don't you write about events around you? Like, what's happening in the world, how do you feel about your surroundings, your thoughts about current events, your prognosis and such

There's always something to write about in any moment

>> No.7092272

>>7092261
It's just a pleasant way to deal with things and working them out, just like thinking out loud or talking to a friend is. There's something that happens when you try to phrase a thought or idea in an actual sentence that makes you look at it in a different way, more distanced and level headed in a way, it allows you to engage with them in a different way, or let them go.

Why go to a psychologist if you manage perfectly well with a notebook? It's a great way of dealing with things.

>> No.7092281

>>7092268
I agree, there's always something to write about, but I don't feel the need to have an opinion about everything, and least of all write them down.

>>7092272
I just don't get it is all. I don't need to vent myself on to paper, because I don't have anything that needs venting.

>> No.7092289

>>7092228

Because it gives you practice putting thoughts into words and can remind you of how you felt and what you were doing at certain times.

>> No.7092378

>>7092281
>I just don't get it is all. I don't need to vent myself on to paper, because I don't have anything that needs venting.
Well, there is a degree of wanting to vent that does not require the assistance of mental health professionals. It's not even necessarily a compulsive need, some people just enjoy writing things down.

>> No.7092440

I don't know
If something is worth writing about I post it here

've kept journals for notes and theories

>>7092228
Some people are interesting

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7092453

Because it becomes filled with self loathing and I end up throwing them out due to anxiety of others ever discovering them.

>> No.7092463

>>7092440
>Some people are interesting

No, you mean some people have a high opinion of themselves, and think they're interesting.

>> No.7092490

This is now a write-a-diary-page thread.

>> No.7092742

>>7092122
I can't commit myself to doing it on a regular basis. Also, I'm paranoid as shit of someone finding it.

>> No.7093293

I feel like I waste my time writing in my diary instead of writing fiction.

>> No.7094098

Rommel was forced to suicide because someone kept a journal.

>> No.7094104
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7094104

My daily life is boring and my opinions aren't very original

>> No.7094114

>>7092463
what if you don't write about yourself

Forget What Did

Stopping the diary
Was a stun to memory,
Was a blank starting,

One no longer cicatrised
By such words, such actions
As bleakened waking.

I wanted them over,
Hurried to burial
And looked back on

Like the wars and winters
Missing behind the windows
Of an opaque childhood,

And the empty pages?
Should they ever be filled
Let it be observed

Celestial recurrences,
The day the flowers come,
And when the birds go.

(Philip Larkin)