Comments on: To Keep or Not To Keep: Notebooks and Posterity? http://www.notebookstories.com/2008/09/29/to-keep-or-not-to-keep/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:30:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jen http://www.notebookstories.com/2008/09/29/to-keep-or-not-to-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-50108 Jen Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:15:24 +0000 http://www.notebookstories.com/?p=125#comment-50108 This is honestly why I have strict rules on journal keeping. I don't write anything bad about my husband or other family members. Not that I'm in denial if we have a disagreement but nobody's going to want to read that stuff when I'm gone. I may write bad things about other people but family is off limits, at least as far as anything detail oriented goes. This is honestly why I have strict rules on journal keeping. I don’t write anything bad about my husband or other family members. Not that I’m in denial if we have a disagreement but nobody’s going to want to read that stuff when I’m gone. I may write bad things about other people but family is off limits, at least as far as anything detail oriented goes.

]]> By: books http://www.notebookstories.com/2008/09/29/to-keep-or-not-to-keep/comment-page-1/#comment-21816 books Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:22:23 +0000 http://www.notebookstories.com/?p=125#comment-21816 Most people would understand that journals reflect a certain time or day in the past. If they are in your life (family, friends), and you'd written something bad about them, chances are that they could recall that you once had a fight. Or, chances are, they've had some not-so-nice thoughts of their own. The good thing about journals is that it would take reading a good portion of them to get to something bad about them (possibly), and after they'd read all that, they'd hopefully understand that emotions change and that was one particular time in life. I'd prefer my potential great-great grandkids to have some of my old journals to get to know me through, and understand what life was like now. Good or bad, it's who I am. You could consider donating them to some historical society or diary museum, I suppose. Most people would understand that journals reflect a certain time or day in the past. If they are in your life (family, friends), and you’d written something bad about them, chances are that they could recall that you once had a fight. Or, chances are, they’ve had some not-so-nice thoughts of their own. The good thing about journals is that it would take reading a good portion of them to get to something bad about them (possibly), and after they’d read all that, they’d hopefully understand that emotions change and that was one particular time in life.

I’d prefer my potential great-great grandkids to have some of my old journals to get to know me through, and understand what life was like now. Good or bad, it’s who I am. You could consider donating them to some historical society or diary museum, I suppose.

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