Locked Diaries?
2004-02-17 || 2:09 p.m.

Locked Diaries?

I hav'nt done much diary reading since I have been a member. I only read the ones on my favorites list and those I mostly found out through banners and other peoples favorites. But recently I started to read just random diaries. You know the ones that are listed alphabetically and were updated recently. I can't tell you how many of them were locked or had locked entries. I'd start reading a profile that looked interesting and the fucking diary would be locked. I don't get that. Why would you come to a place like diaryland, where you pretty much know that someone could possibly read your diary if you don't want anyone to read it. I don't know maybe I just don't get the whole thing. I knew when I signed up here that it was a place to voice my concerns and opinions and problems and most private thoughts and someone might read them. I like that feeling of knowing that someone might read them. It's like having someone to talk to about personal things without really knowing who they are. To me that is very cathartic. I am not the most talkative person so in the long run this has helped that part of me a great deal. I tend to talk things out a little more since I started writing in here. It's amazing to me that Ican write somethin down in here and someone will leave me a note with a kind word or some helpful advice and hopefully I can do the same. It's a whole different type of relationship and for me it has nothing to do with trust. Can I trust the person who wrote that note? Who the fuck cares . They don't know me personally but they know personal things about me that I might not ever tell anyone. I consider the people whos diaries I read on a regular basis friends but very different from any friends that I have ever had. They know things about me that my wife does'nt even know. I like my new friends here in diaryland. So to my new friends, Thanks for the kind words and the advice and the feeling that someone you don't even know can brighten up your day just by leaving you a note and for Gods Sake, Don't lock your diaries,PLEASE

Later,ROB