Dear Diary

SPM1959

I'm planning on keeping a personal diary in 2014.

Any other adult on here keep one? I am bit concerned about putting personal thoughts/feelings down on paper (in case someone else reads it) but like the thought of looking back on it in a few years time.

xploderz

Get some free encryption software like Kleopatra and keep it locally.

Mickey H

Jackpot!!

Sir Osis of Liver.

Ah no,im not a ten year old girl.

Gongoozler

What would be the purpose of this OP?

SPM1959

Gongoozler wrote: »

What would be the purpose of this OP?

I have a lot of 'life changing' plans for 2014. I like the idea of documenting how I am feeling during this time. I think writing down my thoughts would also serve as a form of motivation to achieve my goals/aims.

Duckworth_Luas

Gongoozler wrote: »

What would be the purpose of this OP?

Fresh milk, cheese and butter?

Mint Aero

SPM1959 wrote: »

I have a lot of 'life changing' plans for 2014. I like the idea of documenting how I am feeling during this time. I think writing down my thoughts would also serve as a form of motivation to achieve my goals/aims.

You plan on getting pregz ya?

Gongoozler

SPM1959 wrote: »

I have a lot of 'life changing' plans for 2014. I like the idea of documenting how I am feeling during this time. I think writing down my thoughts would also serve as a form of motivation to achieve my goals/aims.

Sounds good so.
Keep us updated with it.

looking_around

Common sites for anonymous ( public or private diaries) prose box, blogger, open diary.

I've kept a diary since 4th class, both written and electronic, i like using online sites as its nice to have a few entries public, to get comments from people who could be in similar position etc.
However i do download my diary in case the site has a crash/ goes bust, what not. And the odd time i still write.

Can't beat writing as a release/ clear the mind.


I also want to add, in the last 10 years of keeping an online diary, i haven't had anyone i know 'find' it. (And i write 'public')
Physical diaries are riskier for that, i think.

Muise...

Does anyone write for their future self with no other reader in mind?

I used to keep an occasional diary, but I haven't been particularly interested in myself since I was about 16 years old. The girlish notebooks have since been burnt in a blaze of cringe. Rita Ann Higgins had a good poem about secrets - don't tell anyone at all, and don't keep a diary or it'll be read when you're dead. "Try blushing with dirt in your mouth."

Sulla Felix

I write one, but don't read it. Ever. Did once or twice, but it's mind boggingly jarring because once a few years are past, I find I'm a stranger to myself.

McChubbin

I've kept diaries since I was 17 and looking back, I do cringe a little but I like to write and I find that writing down my feelings regardless of the mood I'm in is very cathartic. I consider it to be theraputic. As for worrying about people reading it when I'm dead- sure, I'll be dust in the wind by then.

Daqster

What if your diary gets stolen though? Where would you write about that, eh.

Ihatecuddles

I've always kept a diary. They are really nice to look at the odd time and say oh I remember doing that etc.

I dropped it one day going into my apartment and a neighbour found it, and read it. To this day he contacts me on facebook and tells me I'm very kinky :mad: He's such a creep.

I haven't kept one since!

mauzo!

mauzo! wrote: »

I've always kept a diary. They are really nice to look at the odd time and say oh I remember doing that etc.

I dropped it one day going into my apartment and a neighbour found it, and read it. To this day he contacts me on facebook and tells me I'm very kinky :mad: He's such a creep.

I haven't kept one since!

This kind of scenario would be my greatest fear. What a creep.

I don't have the discipline to keep one, although I like the idea of it.

SPM1959

mauzo! wrote: »

I've always kept a diary. They are really nice to look at the odd time and say oh I remember doing that etc.

I dropped it one day going into my apartment and a neighbour found it, and read it. To this day he contacts me on facebook and tells me I'm very kinky :mad: He's such a creep.

I haven't kept one since!

Yes, the thoughts of this situation freaks me out.

You should block him on Facebook.

Muise...

SPM1959 wrote: »

Yes, the thoughts of this situation freaks me out.

You should block him on Facebook.

Quick, shut the stable door, the horse has bolted!

Ihatecuddles

SPM1959 wrote: »

Yes, the thoughts of this situation freaks me out.

You should block him on Facebook.

I know this sounds crazy, but he knows where I live and is really really creepy, I'd be afraid I'd bump into him and he'd say something

SPM1959

mauzo! wrote: »

I know this sounds crazy, but he knows where I live and is really really creepy, I'd be afraid I'd bump into him and he'd say something

Far from crazy,it is creepy. Best to ignore and fully block on Facebook. If anything then happens in real life (e.g comments), go to the Gardai and show him you are serious/not afraid of him.

mauzo!

mauzo! wrote: »

I know this sounds crazy, but he knows where I live and is really really creepy, I'd be afraid I'd bump into him and he'd say something

This sounds really worrying Mauzo.

Ihatecuddles

Candie wrote: »

This sounds really worrying Mauzo.

SPM1959 wrote: »

Far from crazy,it is creepy. Best to ignore and fully block on Facebook. If anything then happens in real life (e.g comments), go to the Gardai and show him you are serious/not afraid of him.

It was really weird. He added me on facebook and that was fine, was being really flirty but in a creepy way. Asked for my number, I said no.

Ordered take away one night and who delivers it? HIM! Then of course he had my number. He text me saying that my tits looked amazing and he wants to bury his face in them

Kept texting me at midnight saying he'd call up, I said no. Said he'd call up anyway. I used to have to get my boyfriend to come over but didn't want him to say anything to him. The guy is really really rough. I'd be putting the bins out in the evening and have to walk by his house, all his family would be there and the lads would be smoking joints in the back garden, they'd be really sleazy and make sexual comments.

I moved anyway, and me and my boyfriend ordered take away one night, from a different place. Who delivers it? Him again. What are the chances like? Now he knows where I live!

Anyway, I'm going to block him and if anything happens I will go to the guards. I'm pregnant now so hopefully he'll leave me alone. Whenever I asked him to not text me he'd just get really aggressive.

Sorry for the rant, felt good to get that out Moral of the story? Take aways are bad mmmkay

mad muffin

SPM1959 wrote: »

I'm planning on keeping a personal diary in 2014.

Any other adult on here keep one? I am bit concerned about putting personal thoughts/feelings down on paper (in case someone else reads it) but like the thought of looking back on it in a few years time.

Looks like you started early...

biko

I did it for a while when travelling. Then some years later I found it and had a read.
Tbh it was great re-reading everything, really makes you remember things you'd otherwise forget.

SPM1959

Mint Aero wrote: »

You plan on getting pregz ya?

No.

SPM1959

mauzo! wrote: »

It was really weird. He added me on facebook and that was fine, was being really flirty but in a creepy way. Asked for my number, I said no.

Ordered take away one night and who delivers it? HIM! Then of course he had my number. He text me saying that my tits looked amazing and he wants to bury his face in them

Kept texting me at midnight saying he'd call up, I said no. Said he'd call up anyway. I used to have to get my boyfriend to come over but didn't want him to say anything to him. The guy is really really rough. I'd be putting the bins out in the evening and have to walk by his house, all his family would be there and the lads would be smoking joints in the back garden, they'd be really sleazy and make sexual comments.

I moved anyway, and me and my boyfriend ordered take away one night, from a different place. Who delivers it? Him again. What are the chances like? Now he knows where I live!

Anyway, I'm going to block him and if anything happens I will go to the guards. I'm pregnant now so hopefully he'll leave me alone. Whenever I asked him to not text me he'd just get really aggressive.

Sorry for the rant, felt good to get that out Moral of the story? Take aways are bad mmmkay

He's sounds a danger. Don't take any chances. Get the Gardai involved if you feel threatened in any way.