Empty diary
Last night, I was going through my nightstand, looking for a picture, and I found an old diary that I bought, but never used. I looked at it last night, flipping through the empty pages, trying to remember why I had never used it … Had I been extra busy? Was life just particularly boring at the time? If so, what made me decide to buy it?
I can vaguely remember picking it up off the shelf at the bookstore. It’s a very pretty diary. Maybe it was just that it was so pretty that made me want to buy it. As if the beauty of the book would be able to rub off on the thoughts and the words that went into it.
I wanted to write in it.
There is something very sad to me now, about the emptiness of that diary. I wish I had filled it. Even if my life was boring at the time. Even if I was too busy.
Now, I know, it will always stay empty. Anytime I want to write, I will do it here. There will be no pretty little book filled with pretty words to leave behind. Just an empty diary, with my name on the front page.
April 11, 2007 at 1:54 pm
I think you should consider using it. You’d be surprised how much more theraputic it can be to write everything down in a journal rather than just blog.
I keep a personal journal for everything that I want to write about that is just that, personal. Even though I also have too many blogs to count
April 11, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I also have a few empty diaries/journals around my house. I pick them up because the blank paper calls to me, longing to be filled. But I never do. Like you, anything I would write goes on my site. It’s kind of sad that paper is becoming so obsolete. One thing though…I don’t think I could ever give up reading actual books on paper. Even though many are now available in an online format, there’s just something about words on a page that is so much more personal than words on a screen.
April 11, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I have journals, both empty and filled, that mostly hold the darker part of my thoughts, the pain, the anger, the sorrow that I feel has no place in my blog, because it is very, very private.
April 11, 2007 at 9:56 pm
I have to have books in paper, I will never make the switch to e-books. Ever. And I’m brutal on my books. Pages get dog-eared, bent, left open. I don’t think I could ever lsoe myself in an e-book the way I do when I’m curled up with a paper-back in my hands.
April 16, 2007 at 8:01 am
Writing on your blog is another way to jobs down your life. But diary is the better to keep your own secret.
April 16, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I have about 30 notebooks, not so much diaries, yet words jotted down for future reference. I always carry a notebook with me where ever I go. Too much goes on during a day to try and remember it all at once. I do print out the pages from my blog as well, so it is a diary in progress I guess…
April 17, 2007 at 3:37 am
Nice blog!
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