old journals
Unclutterer gives this advice about what to do with old journals. I have debated that question with myself for years (started in 6th grade keeping a journal and have done it in fits and starts for over 40 years.) I hate most of them because they show me just how shallow and non-introspective I have always been...and sometimes there are secrets that have totally screwed me when someone decided to read them.
I'm not Anais Nin, nor Virginia Woolf...nobody is going to be interested in reading them in the future. Even though I love reading diaries and memoirs of famous and not so famous people, I am getting more and more fond of the idea of burning them. Maybe I will take a day or two and do that. Every time I decide to do it, though, the librarian/archivist part of me cringes and I think of A Canticle for Leibowitz.
1 comments:
Please don't burn them -- we don't know the future, and we certainly can't tell what will be of interest to those who will come after... the story of one's life, whatever tags and tails of it we can set down in the midst of doing other things, is the one thing we can give to others (even unknown, unimaginable others) that nobody else could give them --
Pernishus
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