Question of the Day 9/22/22

[joelsmom]

Good Thursday, pixies!

Have you ever kept a journal or diary?

As a child, I had one of those diaries with an attached lock, and I suppose I wrote some things in it, but I have never really kept a journal or diary that I have stowed away for all my life.

[graygables]

I’ve never been able to keep up with one until I started a digital one to track my back surgery symptoms and I’ve kept it up with at least a few highlights of the day. I have so many empty paper journals I’ve been purging recently to donate.

[allgiggles]

The first semester of my freshman year of college my English professor required us to keep a journal. We had to write at least 10 sentences for at least 5 days a week. Even after I was finished with that class, I continued to write in it almost every day for the rest of that school year but stopped doing it during the summer and never started again.

[gremlinkid73]

I've been doing one for the last several years. Both my parents kept a journal.

[BriarRose4]

Yes, when I was younger.

[gingerj1]

LOL, when I'd try, it would last MAYBE 3 days, unless I was doing it for school.


OTOH, when I was learning to fly, I wrote about every single flight and posted it in another forum, where my online friends were very supportive. That was great fodder for when I made a scrapbook album about the whole thing. I suppose that counts as a journal, if not a diary.


I had a friend in college who kept lengthy journals; I can't see doing that myself, but I respect the effort.

[rella]

No, I never had the discipline to do so.

[Cam22]

My grandmother gave me a small diary when I turned 13, which I wrote in some, though not regularly. Later in the summer before my freshman year, I began writing in a spiral notebook. I kept that up off and on for a few years. I had class in college that required a journal as a major part of the grade. That time journaling stuck. I have kept one almost every year since then, writing in it every day. Forty-two years later, I have a large collection of journals saved in boxes. I've never counted them, but it's a lot.

[luvnwdwgal]

I had one in grade school back in the early 70’s. I don’t recall writing in it much. I’ve never kept one since.

[chezp]

I kept a diary from 1986 until the early 2000s. I also kept a journal throughout our various lockdowns. That ran to almost 500 days of 2020 and 2021 in the end...