I did sporadically from elementary school through high school. When I went back and read some of the entries when I was in college, it really cracked me up. I thought I knew it all and how little I knew. 
I wrote a lot when I was going through my major depression phase in high school.
But I threw all my journals away because I was always afraid someone would find them and read them. It would be really interesting to look back on them now.
Did you keep a diary growing up?
pomegranate / 3314 posts
I went through spells of keeping one, but I was way too lazy to do it consistently. After a few weeks I would always get bored and quit. Not the same thing, but last time I was at my parents' house I found my high school yearbooks and I was dying over the messages in them. Most of them still made me laugh, which makes me wonder about the state of my maturity at 31 years of age!!!
pomelo / 5178 posts
Yes, I started in 5th grade and kept it up through college. A while back, I came across my old journals from middle and high school. My husband read them, lol, and he said it gave him a whole new perspective on me. He said it made him feel a lot closer to me, to be able to read what I was like as a kid and teenager.
persimmon / 1165 posts
I started a diary in grammar school but only updated it sporadically through high school. I think once I got to college I really wrote a lot. It was pretty painful to re-read some of those passages - I was so dramatic!!! About 10 years ago we had a flood in our basement and I had to throw away all of my diaries which was really hard. I would've loved to look back at those in another 20 years.
pear / 1974 posts
Yes i started on in my helly kitty diary in 4th grade that has a lock on it. I moved from Korea to the US in 4th grade, which is when I started writing it, and I literally have kept it to this day, I wrote in it very religiously in the beginnign, then about a frequency of once a year since high school. But it's funny because it goes from Korean writing to English. I love that I still have it, it makes me laugh when I read it!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I had a diary, but was never good about wiring in it. I kept a notebook in high school that I wrote poetry in.
honeydew / 7504 posts
I did, and I still have them all and it's hysterical to read them. It was sporadic until high school, and then I wrote pretty consistently from high school up until about 4 years ago.
grapefruit / 4669 posts
I still have a bunch of old journals, and they're embarrassing to read...it's pretty bad when you're embarrassed for yourself in front of yourself!
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
Yep! Still do, actually. And they are all in the same type of notebook, ha ha, so I've got a collection that looks like a boxed set of encyclopedias.
pomegranate / 3160 posts
I did on and off throughout the years...I do wish I would have kept up with it, it would have been so fun to look back on! I even tried a "one line a day" journal, but alas, writing a sentence a day proved too much!
pomegranate / 3716 posts
Yes! my mom actually MADE me keep a journal... And she would READ it! It was my daily assignment and i hated it, it was such a chore. And plus I wrote boring things like "today I had a good day... Blah blah". And then my mom caught me writing in my actual private diary, and she got MAD at me for not writing everything in my journal! For her to read, are you kidding?!
All my old private diaries are still in my childhood room and they are SO. CRINGE-WORTHY!!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
I still have my big box of journals in my old closet at my parents house. I kept them from the time I was 11 to about 19. I try to keep one now and I am not consistent anymore in writing in it.
although my hubby and I have a journal we keep together where we write letters back and forth to each other.
pomegranate / 3890 posts
during my theatre class we had to keep one (bt we didnt habe to hand them in or have the teacher read them) it was right when me and DH started dating so i wrote all about that, its so sappy reading it now but i love that i have it to remember what it gelt like to be in love at 17 
GOLD / pomelo / 5167 posts
I would always start for a week or so and then give up. I did love the scent if the paper. Hehe
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