Today marks the 50th Anniversary of my starting a diary. I was 13. It was a Five Year Diary. I filled that religious every day for the first three years, that filled years four and five over all the allocated lines before moving to a new Five Year Diary, where I soon found I had too much to write so once again took to filling two or three years worth of lines. In due course I moved to an A4 Notebook and wrote a page a day in that ... except for times when it got out of hand and I wrote several, even many pages for the day. At one point for a month I had a Arch Leaver File which I filled with ephemera like a scrapbook. That was September 1978.
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Hello Jonathan
I always liked the idea of writing a diary and actually did start one many years ago. However, i thought I was writing nothing of importance but it would be interesting now that im older to look back on things i have forgotten.
Judith
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i never read anything back until I had completed a year. I then had the pleasure of being able to say 'this is what I was doing last year'. The pleasure grew five years in, when the 18 year old could see what the 13 year old had been up to, and onwards to the 28 year old looking back 15 years. I've revisited the diaries a few times in the past, in 1992, in the early 2000s and again now as I embark on the 50 year review. I can now say, 'fifty years ago today I was ...'. The posts appear inconsequential, and sometimes mundane until i delve deeper into where I was and who I was with and what I was doing.