I was wondering...

Does anyone keep a journal? You know, like a diary? I don't mean and online blog or anything. I mean paper and a pencil. Remember those? Haha.
I recently found my old journal that I kept from ages 6-14. I had a lot of fun reading it, so I decided to start writing in it again because I'm about to turn 18 and I think I'll be interesting to look back on all this stuff that's goin' on when I'm older haha. And I'll have somethin' to show my kids.

So yeah, do you?

yeah..i have journals from like years ago

I used to, when I was like, 7. I stopped writing in it when I was 10.. I think my mom threw it away. I should start over with a new one..

i used to... i should start again.

it's weird, i kept one from second grade, which i laugh about. and kept one from sixth grade which i wouldn't dare to look back in. i have lot of pretty journals, empty though. im afraid to write in them actually. i say it's b/c i write bad and don't want to ruin the pages but im sure it's more than that, im just not telling myself. so i just write in old school notebooks. like, i write one page in one notebook, then go do it again in another one. they're all over my room

I think it'll be cool when I'm older cause it's handwritten, ya know? It's more personal. I like reading my grandmas about the depression and WWII and stuff.

Ha, me too! They're everywhere in my room. I usually write poetry in those. I hate it though because I can never find anything. I write on a couple pages then never use it again and when I do write again, I end up using a new one. I have to flip through them all to find anything haha. I need to get organized. -_-'

I do, I have a lot. All finished and filled. Well, except for the one I currently write in.
I've been writing in journals (and actually kept up with it) ever since I was like..ten years old.

i've like tried writing in journals..but like i write it..then i stop..so yea...and everytime i have sumthing to write..and i noe wt im going to write...i cant write all the stuff down...so i dont keep one..i want to but i cant really..

Yes.I keep 'em too. I was so funny. I hated a lot of people back then.

I had one when I was really young, and I went through a phase where I did what I called serious "journaling" for about a year in high school. My journal was a thick, text-book sized, hardcover book with blank pages and I'd just write wherever in it. I also took magazine clippings, photos, ticket stubs, colored pencils, markers, anything.. Every page was pretty.

I burned everything I could find last summer.

I used to when I was like 11. I sounded weird.

And I found one those old journals that were pink and they came with the little necklace with the little ballet shoes hanging from it. LOL. I sounded weird too.

Now it's just seperate pieces of lined paper I write on when I just need to vent.. or when i'm bored I just write.

Hahaha.. I found an old from 03' the other day and it was so hilarious.. and well lame.


Right now I kind OF keep a journal or WAIT well I don't know. Anyhow. When I turned 18 I decided to write a will (my senior class had the most deaths) so I started writing it in an old journal. It's actually quite comical like the fact that I wish for only people who truly knew me to attend my funeral. You must be invited. haha. Sometimes I put in random thoughts. I don't think many young people think about dying but I'll be prepared if it comes sooner than planned.

OMG, i always thought you were a guy

^????..angie a guy..that is a first

*notices he's the only guy that keeps a journal so far*

maybe i am

No that does not make you gay. You just like to write.

sometimes but not for a while

I knew it

lol i just always assumed you were because of the little symbol by your name

Yeah I like handwritten journals especially since you can see how your handwriting progresses over time. It may not be much, but still. I used to keep one from seventh to tenth grade. When eleventh grade came, I never found the time.

Why'd your burn everything?

Yeah I wish i kept a journal, I used to have this blog where i typed page after page of weird shit like " FINGER BANGED THE SHITTTTTTT OUTTA " and deeper thoughts :)

yeahhh!! lol i stopped a while back though -- i used to have one around when i was like 5-13 but then stopped for about two years.. im 15 now and i still havent wrote in my diary [in like 3 months].... i look back at my old diaries now ; WOW i was so dramatic!! and so mean too lol

I've kept one for the past six years, since May 2000. It's stretched to about four volumes and several hundred pages now. It's really interesting to read over, and see what was important to me at various points in my life--what I focused on at certain times.

I really enjoy writing in it, but I also think of it almost as an obligation, something to leave behind for descendants to read and reflect upon.

i used to, but i don't write in it anymore.

I have journals from like years ago, and I love to read them.

I keep wanting to start another journal but I need to get an actual journal.

I have journals from a couple of years ago, but as of now, I don't write in them. But i have a xanga that I never told anyone about, and I use it as a diary. When I have something on my mind but I don't wanna tell anyone else, I just write it as an entry and set it on private.

I wrote in one for like a year and it was usually "i watched tv today but i forget the name of it" when i was like 7. I occasionally update it with all the highlights of my life every year or two.. or three.

yeah. i enjoy writing in it. my thoughts can be let out and not bottled inside.
then like months after, i look back and read it, it makes me laugh.

haha, i write in my journal like.. every 4 months or so when i'm bored and/or cleaning my room.

i would NEVER show my journal to my kids 'cause it's got a lot of curses in it and stuff. maybe when they're like 18 or something.

i always steal my sister's journals and read it. it's fun. and her yearbook/autograph book too. good thing she's not coming back for like a year..

Yes indeed. I've had one since I was in the fifth grade. Back then, I would only update once every month or few months, but starting seventh grade, I wrote almost every day and now I have six journals I believe. I still have one and now it's almost necessary for me to write every night. Not really sure why, it's just become habit. And it's just SO great to look back and see what has all happened in my life. I know it will be so much fun to look back on them when I'm older :]

When I was younger I used to keep a journal.. most of the pages were filled with drawings or photographs. I havent kept a journal for a long time but Im planning on starting one this fall when Is start the 405th chapter of my life- COLLEGE lols

Woo, I'm not the only guy! I mentioned cB in my journal... I really should quit cB. It's becoming unhealthy! haha.

^ Dude. You have no idea. I should fetch my journal and type up the passages in there about cB. I RECORDED ALL THE DRAMA. Like no lie. I'd report to it about who got demoted/promoted.. even as far as the Trish drama.. when people would spam or whatnot. It's hilarious. I KID YOU NOT. I'm fcuking obsessed with this place.

I used to have one.. = [

I used to when I was like in 2-3rd grade. My mom found it. woo was she pissed.

no i don`t. well kinda. i keep a
quote journal where i write out
quotes or even lyrics that i like.

When I was cleaning my room out last week, I found this journal I kept back in grade 3. I wasn't even a journal, it was like a couple of pages of crap. It was cute though, I was laughing at the words I spelled wrong. Then I was reading my little "hate" & "like" list . I wrote comments about everyone in my class & reading it made me laugh. Gosh, memories.
Anyways, I don't keep a journal or diary in pen & paper. But I do have a blog & I update it sometimes. Except no one on cB or anyone in real life knows about it . It's like my "secret" xanga . Good luck finding it .

i also have a xanga that
no one knows about.i write in it
sometimes but not as much as i`d
like since cB has got me recently addicted

other than an online blog sometimes...no, but I want to start one

I never was able to keep a journal for more then a few pages. I'd write in it and get bored. But now I actually have a diary that I write in everyday. Sometimes twice or 3 times a day. I love it because I write in my diary what I can't talk to anyone else about. It's like therapy.

not ONLY do i have an online journal, but an actualy journal as well. they're two completely different styles though i guess since one's private and one's not. but it is very interesting to look back at how stupid you were or whatever (:

nope i dont. hehe

I have like a million journals. But I always stop writing in them because they are so boring . I need to start another journal.. but this time I need to write in it and never stop. My Mom likes to keep my old journals. She says, "When you grow up.. you'll like to look at your old journals to look at your childhood." True that.

Lmao WOW. You are insane.

I haven't wrote in my journal for two days... :\