Why Do We Write A Diary?

I came across dis question elsewhere & thought why don’t I answer it here? Why do we write a diary, journal or say a blog for instance? Oscar Wilde has said, “I never travel without my diary – one should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

LOL.. He must have maintained a sensational diary then. I never found what I wrote in my diary to be sensational, perhaps might have been sensational from another person’s perspective. The famous may write their diaries so as to publish them on retirement & rake in all the money for their days ahead. Smart option & good for othem. But what abt the others? Could be a method to fight their loneliness, frustration or perhaps even a hobby!

For me it was (Yes, I said WAS) a way of takin some weight off my chest, my frustration most of the times. But writing all this stalked me by quite a few strangers named FEAR, GUILT & EMBARRASSMENT. FEAR of my diary being discovered. GUILT of having written things which I shouldnt have written & EMBARASSMENT at the thought of my diary being read! Flipping back on these pages of my diary always made me feel stupid.

Thankfully over the years my perspective to life has changed. I too like Oscar Wilde have figured that what U write has to be sensational, even to yourself. By maintaining this blog I’m jus obeying a simple rule of Fabulosity.

                           FaBuLoSiTy – LiVe It, LeArN iT, lOvE iT!!