Do you guys keep a diary? Thinking about starting one since

I feel the same, but have a hard time keeping a diary consistently. When I write, it seems like I highlight very trite parts of my day.

My question is, for those who keep a diary: do you re-read it?

I started a diary today but it failed miserably

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I'm starting to believe it's important to chronicle thoughts and experiences. The archives created by humanity will far outlive any human itself; as a famous fictional character once ad lib'd “All these will be lost, like tears in rain,” the irony being the staying power of said scene continues to inspire years beyond it's production. Life fades but memories can remain as long as they're passed on.

This begs the questions however, is every memory worth preserving? And if it has been recorded, what makes it worth listening to? Authority is the classic divide on what is worth digesting intellectually but posthumous recognition tends to come to common scribes as the years go by. Those “ahead of their time” may very well just have been the one to record the common sentiment of their cliché. At the end of the day though it's up to a single person of their own accord to decide what is and isn't relevant to themselves.

I write these musings in the vain hope that my perspectives on the limited world around me will live on in the minds of others many decades, even centuries from now. I've learned however, to be remembered you can only be a hero or a villain. I hope through my records I can become one.

DAY 1:

I've hit a road block already.
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>>8852342
I'm going to switch it up and add important events from my childhood or just memories I think are important after I write what happened. I'll try to relate the old memory to something that happened today.

I think I might re read this time next year. Mainly want to give it to someone like a grandson or something even though I know they'll be like wtf is this bullshit. Basically this is my way of accepting my eventual death. If I live on through this I feel better.

>>8852345
go on.. I'm interested in where this is going

why the road block

>>8852374
My current issue, and issue with Diaries in general, is a lot of what I'd write I personally find quite boring. I can reflect on my dreams and why the day was unfulfilling perhaps but that feels like it'd get awfully pretentious. The crux of my problem I'd say is all things considered I'm not really sure why anyone would care to read what I'd write. That feels like more of a personal struggle to overcome though that I'll just have to work at.

>>8852409
I think its true you can only do so much with it and it'll be get boring. Like you said it is an archival for me mostly since Id like to remember important events or moments in my life. When I re read the idea is I'm back there again.

Do you think your style is boring or pretentious? Seemed interesting to me.

Maybe you're boring yourself by not doing interesting things in the day.

>>8852460
That's fair enough, just a different approaches which I respect. I'm writing for a hypothetical someone else rather than myself; also yes my days are definitely a bore.

I'll try sticking with the diary for a bit and see what I can get out of it. If all else fails it's back to vignettes for me.

>>8852484
approach*