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Do you think journals & diaries are too incriminating?
- Thread starter MrDawn
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Yes. In high school I was dating this girl and I was over at her house. She left her diary on her bed and went to go do something (I forgot what she did) but I knew I had about 15 minutes alone in her room. I shouldn't have done this but grabbed her diary and ready it. Found out she had been with like 12 guys (instead of the 2 she told me about) and the most recent one was while we were dating! Also she said some not-so-nice things about me in there too, there was some good things but still... Reading all of that was horrible and I wished I hadn't done it. Would have never known any of those things if I didn't read it. Anyway I told her and we got in a big fight over it & broke up.
Yeah, I became very discouraged in ever writing a journal because when I was a kid, my mother sent me to a place for troubled kids and they gave us a book with blank pages. They said every evening we needed to write our thoughts, our feelings, and everything else. I felt like this was an attempt to invade my very thoughts. It felt like some kind of mind control. I didn't want to be shamed or ostracized for the way I felt. So I would just write stupid bullshit in the book. I lied about how happy I was. My thoughts are my thoughts, I am a firm believer that your thoughts should stay in your mind. Writing it and confessing it on paper or in a computer file is just going to cause a lot of needless bullshit.
Yeah some thoughts are meant to be internal only.
If you put them down on paper best believe someone is going to read them one day. So you’re just setting yourself up for being hurt, betrayed and violated when someone does read those very personal thoughts. Best to just not have a journal in the first place.
If putting things in writing makes you feel better and gives you some sort of release, then keep a journal, tear out the page each day when you’re done writing and set it on fire.
