Anonymous Writer

I started writing diary when I was in elementary. Writing a diary or a journal somehow eases what I feel. When blogging came to my knowledge and when I learn that some write their thoughts and feelings on the web, I was hesitant to try it and instead put up my blogs featuring my papers in school and some other stuff. Browsing through the pages of my 2006 journal, one entry talks about how I feel about it. To quote: 

“Blogging does not work for me. I rarely express everything in public. I’m not a good writer too and that adds to why I hate publishing my thoughts. Or is it because I hate being criticized? Well, I am maybe just so reserved. I can express myself more and freely through journals.”

However, one day, I decided that instead of writing with the risk of having my family read my diary, I thought of this idea: to write without hesitation on the web without revealing who I am. In that way, I will be able to share my thoughts and what I feel to my readers who don’t know me. In that way, I might get comments from them to answer my questions and to help me realize certain situations, also to inspire me about life.

To begin with, let me share the reasons why I write diaries or journals. As earlier said, it eases and comforts me. It keeps ideas flowing and sometimes the first paragraphs which are normally full of questions find their answers at the bottom. This means that by writing, I realizes in the end. It is my way of coping up with my problems, of keepsaking reminiscences photographed by memory and my way of finding serenity.

I often think that I am misunderstood or misinterpreted and that my diary is the only one that could understand me. But I hope now that since this diary would circulate around the world wide web, people will understand or will try to understand me and will help me understand myself and them too.