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coffeefairyyy
2 years ago

I think so:) In any case, it’s fun to write one, and if you should lose your memory for some reason, it’s also very useful to think that you can do better with things and just let your feelings out freely 🙂 If you’re creative, you can also run a photo diary or try out different variants, where you can write things in like, what was “the song of the month” for me, or things you just want to remember or don’t want to forget. :

MonaLisa557
2 years ago

I use my diary especially to get rid of the daily ballast. I’ll write in what’s bothering me or what’s on me.

By the way, I do a self-reflection. I’ve learned for example that I should listen to my own tips. But my psychologist helped me to learn that too.

It won’t fall into your lap just because you write it up. On many days it seems like you can’t learn from yourself. But any experience you do will keep you. You have to learn this. Then it works.

Gringo58
2 years ago

I think YES!

You’ll be better reflected.

P.S.

Many people trust their secrets to a diary. In our solutions we explain four great thinkers, which is why intimate writing continues to be so popular.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

(1889–1951)

“To keep secrets”

We can entrust thoughts to the diary that we prefer not to reveal to others. Smooth as it is, it also keeps the most remote secrets. But what if someone else falls into his hands? Ludwig Wittgenstein probably did not dare his fellow human beings rightly, but he decided to record particularly private passages of his diary in secret. This is how the 47-year-old Wittgenstein is full of shame: “I am still today, as a small bubble with the dentist.” Luckily, he never learned that his writing decoded a few years later – and his fear of the dentist became known to the general public.

Walter Benjamin

(1892–1940)

“To remember us”

On December 10, 1927, Walter Benjamin writes the following lines in his Moscow diary: “I read Proust in my room, please Marzipan.” One, as it seems, insignificant anecdote – but does not exactly close the secondary, read years later, sometimes whole worlds? Only in retrospect will we realize what a certain situation of life really meant to us. For Benjamin, the diary fulfils the purpose of “removing and lifting things out”. What is written down is not lost. The diary reminds us of who we were once and who we have become. It is our companion in the fight against forgetting.

Hannah Arendt

(1906–1975)

“To think”

HistoryHannah Arendt called her collection of 28 closely described booklets. This is not surprising for a woman whose goal it was always “to understand” – even the one that seems unreleasable at first glance. How was totalitarian violence possible and what can we escape her? Thinking and (political) acting are inseparable for Arendt. What brings the two areas together is the “communication” – also to itself. For “without this “for-word-adventure” one could “not withstand the shock of reality”, says Arendt. Think to understand, understand, to act. The diary can help us.

Roland Barthes

(1915–1980)

“To mourn”

If you lose an important person, everything suddenly feels meaningless. How should it go without you? And why didn’t I tell you how much you wanted me? Questions are haunting in the head without being answered. Who can help? The diary. Roland Barthes, who lived with his mother Henriette under one roof, wrote after her death Diary of the grief. The apartment quietly and empty, he became himself a comforting listener in writing. He created a voice from the silentness about the events. And: “Who knows, maybe there is a little gold in these records.” •

Of: https://www.philomag.de/artikel/warum-schreib-wir-tagebuand

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Saturday on the radio: 09:05 AM In conversation

Life Certificates – Why do we write diary?

Guests: Olaf Georg Klein, author and coach – and Jutta Jäger-Schenk, scientific assistant at the German Diary Archive in Emmendingen

gepraech@deutschlandfunkkultur.de

“Love’s diary …” – diaries are testimonies of the most secret thoughts: first love, dreams, worries. For many, they are important life companions up to age. Why do we write diary? How honest are we – also towards ourselves?

Seraphiel0
2 years ago

Personally, it rather prevented me from developing because I was always reminded of how everything was so far. I had no chance to become a better person because I had the feeling that I had to justify myself instead of saying “That was wrong, tomorrow I do better.” I can only do that if I don’t have to burn my thoughts somewhere for eternity.

Nomea
2 years ago

already find diary is the best… almost like a therapist, it reflects and you can scroll to the very front and think: “Waaaaas soooo was that at the time?” and that sometimes makes you proud or you realize how to change… But you shouldn’t stress because you think you have to write every day. If you need it

verreisterNutzer
2 years ago

I think of self-reflection