Hello there!
So, I thought it's time for a new free post, but then I spent ages on the topic-I guess we all have problems with that! :) Usually, I would write about myself, because there's always something going on and it would be the easiest thing to just write about something personal. But as most of these topics would be too personal, I will keep them for my diary.
Is anybody else writing a diary? If nobody does, give it a try! :) I really love it, it's good to get rid of your thoughts by writing them down. Especially when I'm not feeling good at all I like writing things down, it somehow helps to understand myself better and get another view on things. Of course, I also talk things over my friends, but sometimes I just can't because I would be embarrassed. It's probably not, that my thoughts and feelings are really that embarrassing, but I THINK they are, and that's the point. Neither can I tell my sister or mother everything, nor my best friends or boyfriend. Therefore it's just good that I can write things down and only I can read them, as long as I don't give anybody else permission to.
But I'm not always complaining in my entries. There's a good part of sad or angry entries, but I also have many which tell me about the good times. I started the habit of writing something after a good night out. The thing is, I often come home after being out with the feeling, that this was one of the best nights ever, and that it's so bad that nobody's going to remember it for long. So on the next day I'm opening my diary and start writing. Sometimes it's a lot, sometimes just a few sentences, but I'm always trying to include the best or worst or funniest or most personal parts. So every once in a while I'm reading some of the entries and it's just wonderful to do so! :) You can just completely recall how you felt in that exact moment or what happened in that period of your life, and suddenly you remember long forgotten things.
So, just in case somebody thinks "Well, that all sounds nice, but how would I write it?" or "Okay, but who has the time to do so?"  It's not that important how you write it. I usually write in a mixture of standard German and dialect and it sounds as if I'm telling a friend what I think. I don't use the "Dear Diary" line, because it feels stupid to do so, these are my innermost thoughts addressed to no one but me. Moreover it's not that important that you're writing daily. If nothing worth to remember happens in a whole week, I'm not writing either. Sometimes I write very often, and then there's  three week break. I only write when I really want to, otherwise there's simply no point in doing it.