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A diary, to be of value, ought to be honest and frank. It then releases the real person who is writing it. So much of life calls for a hiding of true feelings. French writer Ross one, in his book confessions, says that there are secrets which we like to hide even from our own selves. It can be a good thing to feel free to write down what we feel and think-about ourselves, friends, spouses, the books we read and the events of the world in which we live or want to escape.
There is no reason why we should not start writing a diary at any time of life and grow roses in desert!
Diary writing calls for discretion, especially on the part of the spouses. You can learn from the life and marriage of the famous writer Tolstoy and his wife.
In a fit of frankness Tolstoy wrote about his wife: she has dirty nails. They are filled with grime. She smells in the mouth. She wrote: he munches his food loudly. It is impossible to sit and eat with him. He belches.
The diary becomes a window to vendetta. Not only that the spouses made it possible for the each other to read his/her diary which becomes a weapon of deep marital discord. The point is to express yourself in a way that may not always be possible even when talking to your closest friends. If there is something that has moved us to gratitude, we should put it down. If we know we have behaved badly, let us record the fact. If something is worrying us, let us have it in black and white.
The dairy should tell things about ourselves that we never realised. We may wake up to the fact that we take a lot for granted for which we should be grateful. Or we may find, to our dismay that our expression seems to be a complaint.
Diary may record too many things we have criticised, people we have found fault with, and happenings that we felt were not far. We might be cross if people said these things about us but we can scarcely complain when we have revealed them about ourselves.
The diary may show us some of the directions in which our life is lacking. If there is nothing in it about books, or places visited, or music or meetings, does it not show gaps in our living?
A diary helps develop self-expression and self-analysis if you are prepared to learn from the lessons of life. It has a deep personal significance and value because it a dialogue with your soul in solitude.
The challenges
One of the first difficulties in keeping a diary is likely to be finding something to write in it. The trouble is that many of us do not notice much of what happens to us as go about insensitive to our surroundings. How often we say of something which we may have passed almost daily: “Well, I never noticed it before?
There is good all around us, yet many you miss it. If this is your personal failing.
Act you are a furniture remover. Look round your room, and try to estimate the approximate van-space which would be required to take away the contents. Or, on your way to work, pretend you are an artist and see how many subjects you can discover for paintings.
The diary compels you to be an aid to a more accurate record of life. It fills the blanks in your life. A diary is a daily discipline.
Think of it as a daily delight rather than a drudgery. It is personal and therefore unique as it bears the stamp of your own thinking, experience and perception of truth.
Keep to the task, regularly. Sometimes it is hard, but make the effort, giving time, even if it is only two sentences. Those two sentences may start the flow. Even we do not get beyond the two sentences we shall at any rate have kept faith with task that is dairy accepted the discipline, deepening the groove of a habit.
Such a simple act even as this can make its own lasting and distinctive contribution to the growth of character.
Diary is a good way of ordering thoughts and clarifying ideas, and fixing the mind. You give clarity to thoughts and felicity to expression.
Your diary is a record of your bloom or gloom. It may not be much use to you in the present but may prove an asset in future.
Not because you will become famous but because you have revealed yourself of burdens blights in the inner self.
A faithful daily diary has for you roses in the autumn.
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