2 days later everyone's all "didn't even last 2 days". ‘That wasn’t what you said on February 4, 1981,’ I recently reminded my brother, a day after a dreadful row (it took me the intervening period to look the reference up).Įveryone makes New Year's resolutions. Also, diary entries have helped me to win arguments, if not friends. I often turn to what bits of journal I have when writer’s block strikes. Mae West quipped: ‘Keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you.’ This is true even if you aren’t famous. A diary is honest, intimate and revealing, which doubtless goes a long way towards explaining our enthusiasm for reading other people’s.
It is liberating to write about events, experiences and emotions without having to worry about (a) anyone else’s feelings or (b) our spelling and grammar. We are all intrigued by the idea of diaries and, at some point in our lives, most of us try our hand at keeping one. However, I take real pleasure from reading what my 22-year-old self felt as I anticipated the birth of my first son how, during a particularly mild winter, we had a New Year’s Day picnic lunch on the beach of a storm that left us without power for a week or of a conversation with my father shortly before his death, when he came as close as he was able to saying that he loved me.
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