Do you keep a diary?

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I can tragicomically relate because all my attempts to keep my diaries secret ended up with my much older sister reading them all. If I didn't locked them maybe she wouldn't be that curious. I started my first diary also when I was eleven, it's so funny when I read it now, but later I would write down every possible thought I had. I was pretty confused when I was 16 and 17. Those diaries were really my best friends at that time.

When I started this very first diary, as a child of nine or ten, the one that I got rid of right after writing down in it just a coouple of sentences, I also wanted to write down EVERYTHING I did which was, after all, impossible. Every single thing - literally. And due to this fact, I decided to get rid of this diary (just one single unfinished entry) instantly; I put it into a cabinet and later on when I was cleaning said cabinet like a couple of months later, mom came in and noticed that sheet of paper, so she instantly grabbed it and read everything in spite of my wild protests I felt so humiliated. Now I hide my diaries in the lowest drawer of my desk, in a special box in which I keep also my souvenirs - my old drawings from my childhood and so on.

I try to.

Same here, exactly the same, can't believe it - in the lowest drawer with my old drawings . I now live alone but I put my diary leftovers (I checked, only three survived after I moved to the present apartment) to the highest shelf of my bookshelf. I just went through one from 1985 and found a page with a name of my old time crush written like 30 times .

I named my very first diary "Ćira", that's the nick name for Cyril. "Ćira" was more like my imaginary friend..

Today, I would be more embarassed if I suddenly die and someone find my Google search history . I would be even more embarassed if I don't die and someone still find it.

I had one of those therapy journals once. I stopped using it when other students kept trying to read it and laugh at me.

I rather don't have an embarassing Google search history But then again, it depends on how to look at this

Well, yes, anything private and you want to keep it private becames embarassing when it gets public or available even to a one person that is not you yourself. Just from those diaries and people who somehow reach and grab them you can see how it becomes a weapon for harrasment if in wrong hands. Like @aspiegaming wrote in his comment here.

Well I don't officially keep a diary and I never have done. It's not something that has ever appealed to me.

I have however been in therapy for about 18 months though and I do sometimes make notes of certain things that crop up in between sessions so that I can remember to say them when I go but then I delete the things that I've said so I don't repeat myself and then I write new things down. I think it's a bit like a diary but it's more like bullet points

I kept one briefly many years ago, but don't have a diary in general, as a rule.

Do people read their diaries back to themselves I wonder.

I think some people do. Or sometimes other people read them, especially in the event of their death.

I am thinking of Anne Frank as an example.

Oh yeah she had a diary.

That's a bit of an understatement.

Have you read it

I have. It makes me cry every time, and I’m not much of crier.

Not yet, but I do own "The Diary of A Young Girl" (the name of her diary).

I have read "Anne Frank: Her Life & Legacy" by Jemma J. Saunders which is about Anne Frank, but not by Anne Frank herself.