I kept trying to as a teenager but would give up my attempts almost immediately as cringeworthy.
But I've had the LiveJournal that is now this Dreamwidth since 2002, and while obviously it's very different in some ways to a private paper diary, it does contain so many of my thoughts and life events and I've never wanted to do the digital equivalent of screwing it up into a paper ball which is how all my offline diaries met their fate.
I've been very, maybe overly, attached to ordinary things especially since I emigrated and my brother died (which happened very close together), and I also love reading ordinary things from past years in Facebook memories. I didn't used to write here that way, I was more performative, but I made a conscious effort to get over myself and write more mundane entries a while ago and I am really glad of it. And I'm on my third year now of trying to blog every day and that means a lot of days it's just "here's what I made for dinner, here's what the weather was like, here's something the dog did," or similar. They feel like utterly worthless entries at the time but I treasure them later!
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But I've had the LiveJournal that is now this Dreamwidth since 2002, and while obviously it's very different in some ways to a private paper diary, it does contain so many of my thoughts and life events and I've never wanted to do the digital equivalent of screwing it up into a paper ball which is how all my offline diaries met their fate.
I've been very, maybe overly, attached to ordinary things especially since I emigrated and my brother died (which happened very close together), and I also love reading ordinary things from past years in Facebook memories. I didn't used to write here that way, I was more performative, but I made a conscious effort to get over myself and write more mundane entries a while ago and I am really glad of it. And I'm on my third year now of trying to blog every day and that means a lot of days it's just "here's what I made for dinner, here's what the weather was like, here's something the dog did," or similar. They feel like utterly worthless entries at the time but I treasure them later!