Keeping a blog is a new experience for me. I've been used to keeping diaries, but that really can't compare with online blogging where what you write, your innermost thoughts, are accessible to everybody. A diary is much more personal.. and once you get used to writing, it is addictive. You look forward to writing in it everyday, if only about mundane, everyday things, of no interest to anybody else but you. Also, the physical act of putting pen to paper is somehow therapeutic, hypnotic.
Diary writing does give you perspective. Someone has rightly said that writing a diary gives you the power to live life three times over. One, when you experience what happens to you. Second, when you write about what happens to you. And third, when you read about what happens to you. Some of my best hours have been spent poring over old diaries, going over entries which makes me relive memories, happy as well as painful ones.
I have long given up writing a diary, but I hope to be regular with this blog. It's not the same as writing on paper, but it IS writing for oneself, which is what I intend to do. Write just for myself. Nothing profound, just simple thoughts, observations, feelings...just I , Me, Myself.
Diary writing does give you perspective. Someone has rightly said that writing a diary gives you the power to live life three times over. One, when you experience what happens to you. Second, when you write about what happens to you. And third, when you read about what happens to you. Some of my best hours have been spent poring over old diaries, going over entries which makes me relive memories, happy as well as painful ones.
I have long given up writing a diary, but I hope to be regular with this blog. It's not the same as writing on paper, but it IS writing for oneself, which is what I intend to do. Write just for myself. Nothing profound, just simple thoughts, observations, feelings...just I , Me, Myself.
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