Old Diaries

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

Your own old diaries may be simultaneously the most embarrassing and most fascinating thing you can find.

Comments

[wolfette]

No, the most embarrassing things you can find are the old cassette tapes you made when you were 13 and fancied yourself as a DJ. You know, where you tape yourself doing the "chat" between records, in the style of popular DJs of your youth.

Especially when it is your kid brother who finds them and plays them to the entire family and all his friends.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh God yes.

I have a bag of old diaries from when I was a thirteen-year-old religious fanatic. I'm afraid to go near them.

Anything you feel you can share? ;>

[nightmares-fear.livejournal.com]

At 17, in a fit of teenage angst, I set fire to all bar one of my old diaries. In the kitchen sink. So now, not only do I regret the loss of my self-involved-memories completely, I still have to bear the occasional snide remark my mother might make about how long it takes to clean a sink. Bloody kids!

[kshandr.livejournal.com]

Totally agree.

I went through three discrete periods of keeping a diary, and all of them were on computer. Being something of a packrat for files I still have all the text files, and so when I started my LJ I uploaded them all for the dates that the entries were originally made on. As personal-only entries!

[darskyl.livejournal.com]

oh yes... especially the ones detailing your first teenage "I'm in Love!" moments.... *cringe*