No, I’m not having an intimate conversation with an imaginary web diary, but in fact, this article is to bring back ‘diary writing’ to life. With amazing blogs and other e-gizmos, talking about your life couldn’t be any easier. But with methods to just make this a lot more interactive, all of us are forgetting about one special thing – the diary.

Okay, so blogs are great. They are colourful. Oh, and interactive. Extremely easy to use too! But, oh, wait. I thought that the point of having a diary is only that YOU and YOU alone could read it. No one else wants to know about how you messed up an exam at school or how much you hate Mr. So and So in your life. Blogs are great, I repeat but they miss one special thing. The intimacy between a human and a diary.

I got a diary (with a little lock!) when I was 12. I’m 17 now and I still have it; with loads more pages to go. So what if my life isn’t as interesting as Bridget Jones’ to make an entire book out of it, but every now and then when something great happens in my life, I jot it down in my diary. This ‘art’ of diary writing is nearly dead now. Those familiar words ‘Dear Diary…’ are long gone and no one has the time to write a diary now. But just one paragraph of something eventful patches on the page as a memory. Once in a while, I read every entry of my diary. Some of them are just hilarious, like when I tested if wet toilet paper actually does stick to ceilings or not. Others are just happy times like the meal at the local Chinese, after I got my GCSE results. Others are slight more reflective, like the time when I fought with my friend over something really silly. Some others are landmarks, like when I moved home. Maybe now, as we write in our diaries, there isn’t a bond created but later on, when you look back and read it from the very beginning, it’s almost like you are reliving your life.

This revival of your past is only indigenous to a diary. A blog won’t do anything of this sort. A blog won’t create a rush of emotions as you read simple words. A blog won’t transport you to the place about which you are reading. But the diary, that’s where you can go back because you know that your very hand has scrawled those very words.

I urge all of you to bring back ‘diary writing’ because it isn’t just deep but it’s cool. Just like your high school yearbook and your primary school achievements list, a diary is something you can keep and read, maybe laugh, sometimes cry and most of the times cringe! A diary is a book of your life that will stay only between you and the diary. So instead of writing a website of your life, write the book of your life! It will take long but trust me; it will be worth every second.

My own diary hasn’t been written in a long time. I think I might write in it today about how I might have possibly inspired people to take up writing in diaries.

Kurt Kobain’s Diary.