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When I was 13 my big sister told me twitter is like diary and so I would write all my 13 yr old feelings on internet to see and I still get nightmares from it...my sis still have them ss
But this is a DIARY... it’s a place to put your deepest feelings, no matter how shameful. He’s not a guy with too many feelings. He’s a guy being honest with himself when he’s alone. I know that if someone judged my character from just reading my diary, they’d probably think I’m an emotional wreck too. People tend to write when they feel the most down; it’s a kind of therapy.
Yes! This! Because if you can't be completely open and honest in your own diary/journal, where can you be? Censoring yourself, your thoughts, and your feelings isn't healthy. Writing is therapeutic for many people, myself included. I've kept a diary/journal for over 30 years, because it was the one place I could spill my guts without fear of being judged.
that defeats the whole purpose and you will be writing it with the intent of others reading it so it will be different than a true diary which is someone who is just journaling their deepest personal and private thoughts. Most people would be mortified if they knew someone read their diary.
merncat75 I get that, and I think I’d feel mortified if I knew the person and the person knew me, but if I died and someone sold a diary I wrote to a complete stranger years afterwards, or someone found it in a thrift shop, I think that would be kind of cool because then some small part of me would live on a little longer
@@xwildnessx7845 Absolutely, I understand what you are saying and I completely agree with that scenario but I guess I just mean that if you write out a diary with the intention in mind of having anyone read it someday in the future, then subconsciously you will be writing it differently than if you were just sincerely documenting your thoughts and experiences. It would come out more like a memoir rather than a private diary.
This is probably better than reading a fictional story, I mean, knowing these things really happened and at the same diving in the insane mind of the writer
@@nayo5096 what do you disagree? That he wanted to write down his feelings and he probably never thought anyone would ever read it..? And who doesn't know the owner.. the person that sold this diary? My point is, yes she bought this diary she can read it.. but the fact that she is calling him crazy and all of that it is very very rude
I found one in an old flat I rented. It was super depressing. It was a budding romance, but then the guy committed suicide and the girl who's diary it was thought it was her fault. It was so sad
These forays into a "stranger's diary" makes me contemplative about what will become of my journals and diaries decades from now. I'm having slightly disturbing imaginings of someone on the internet delving into my thoughts in the year 2063 😳.
Man, someone would have fun with mine. But I've been writing them since I was 9 and there are already over 100, so...good luck, future person who stumbles on that mess, I hope you at least get the complete set! 🤣
I disagree. I mean yes. It's his personal diary, but no one know who he is, and it's not like he write something that could like put him in jail or something
a couple months ago i found a diary in my attic and it's ...... interesting to say the least. i believe it was written by a 12-13 year old girl from the early 2000's
@@joannaborns I am literally seeing a live feed of a burn happening, how blessed I must be! Low-key though, somehow stumbled upon the channel 15 minutes ago, keep up the great work!
@@mksketchms thanks for letting me know that some people find some slang terms disrespectful. Very helpful and informative! If there's anything else you think I don't know, please leave more comments!
what if they _weren’t_ dead? imagine how weird it’d be to stumble across a video of some random person reading your deepest, darkest thoughts..... *huh*
1979 in LA. He's almost certainly, positivity on cocaine and marijuana. There is no end to the kind of rollercoaster that dude's head is in on any given day, and still be comparatively normal for his time. Delusion, obsession, tempted to stalk a flame, magical thinking, promiscuity. Yeah.....I'd lay money on him being totally fried most nights , then withdrawing various days of the week. If he's a man of his times and region (judging by his relative ease of finding partners, I'd say he probably was) it's 1979. It's the Renaissance of porno, cocaine, poppers, disco, grass, astrology, swinging. He might not have been all that weird, in context.
My diaries literally are filled with my horror doodles, horror short stories, and my daily struggles within my family. Gonna bury them in a box or burn them lol😂
I didn’t know this channel, I love it! I am very hooked on these old diarys, I feel nostalgic, empathy and there is a certain strangeness in them that I couldn’t explain...
Me and my boyfriend are going through this incredibly complicated break/break up so it's eery listening to this because I can relate to Alyssa so much. The emotions involved are so real and scary. It's a roller coaster for sure.
I have only got one fully written diary from a really edgy period of my life. I feel like there is a lot of value in there for a book or something. But I am too scared to read it myself. It sounds cliché but it’s gonna cause bad emotions reading it 😂 Like I’ll cry 24/7.
When I finish my diary, I’m gonna send it to you. Yes. I’m going to send it to you. Or at least try. I talk about crushes and there’s DRAMA. Like lots of DRAMA. crushes, friend drama, cats, anxiety. Blah blah blah and more.
Her: He keeps talking 'bout his dreams, but my god they are so boring Me: Falling of my chair from laughter. The way she said it was so perfectly timed
I'm keeping a diary and if Joanna ever got her diary-loving hands on it, she'd probably be disappointed in the lack of crush talk since I'm ace and sworn off relationships. But hopefully the family drama I write about would make up for it lol.
I was an 8/9 year old kid in '79. I went to Sunnyside elementary, and thought I was a normal kid, insofar as I thought of myself socially. This guy is still around probably.
I was just looking for your video for Buzzfeed where you did this and found your channel... I’m so happy you did this; I LOVE this stuff!! You read all the old, illegible, possibly uninteresting diaries so I don’t have to, and I deeply appreciate it. I also appreciate the illustration of spaghetti and French fries for “all the fixins”!! 😸😸😸 Amazing!! The early 2000s diary with the dog named Micki weirdly means a lot to me, and I think about that person often. Now I will think of the tortured Nice Guy from your other video, and this spaghetti and French fries person... they live on through us!!
This made me wanna reread my old diary and wow was I an immature 17 year old. The one thing I regret was spacing out my entries so much. I have about 6 years of entries in there and my diary isn't even half full. Lol bright side to that the time gaps make my life seem semi interesting
Hi Joanna, loving this content- I also have about 25 years worth of my diaries. I have written a lot & it makes me wonder now if they were going to be ever sold in the future & i can tell the reader what goes on my mind everyday. It helps me,somehow, to know that people like you are that interested to read anyone's life. In a good way.
i didnt know you had your own youtube channel!! ive been watching your videos all day now and i really enjoy them :-) especially these! i should buy a diary sometime, its so interesting!
we're reading someone's most personal and vulnerable thoughts and he's admitting and acknowledging his mistakes. we're also only seeing one side of the story. dunno if I'd go so far as to disrespect another human being based on a few pages in which he really does nothing terribly wrong. so his crime is... loving alyssa too much? dude, we've all been there. yeah, that can turn into toxicity but we shouldn't assume those things based off so little. and yeah, we can speculate he maybe did something like cheat or that the relationship with his wife got in the way of his new relationship or something along those lines, but that's all it is: speculation. he's also a human being. we all make mistakes and have rash emotions, but it's how we move on and improve that matters. at least he's man enough to own up to them it seems.
Good timing for this one! Just two days ago I texted a friend who hasn't been replying. I decided that that will be the last time. Why I'm being ghosted I don't know but I'm taking the dignified route and just letting the friendship go.---One of the entries you read from, Joanna, was written on my 18th birthday!---"...made love..." was a common term in the 1970's.---I'm not sure that reading someone's diary is an invasion of privacy. Dr. Thomas Mallon who wrote the book "A Book of One's Own---People and Their Diaries" and another book about people's letters said in the beginning of the second book that people write diaries for other and letters for themselves.---I'm going to be looking for your next diary video!
I mean... I think you have something about breaking up and yet every situation is different, this is one point of view and potentially a more vent y whiny point of view because it was perhaps made to be private. So it is hard for me to judge if they seriously need to break up, seek counseling, whatever, because while a diary can be helpful insight it is usually most helpful to the writer, not outside parties...Or so I imagine, who knows? Maybe it is exactly what it seems and they need to break up, I do not know based on the amount of information available.
I highly recommend it! I've written diaries since I was 9 and they really are therapeutic. Just find a really good hiding place if you're worried about it being found. You can also buy one with a lock for extra security. And you can burn it after like others have said. I've kept every diary I've ever written because I sometimes like going back and revisiting them. Almost my entire life is in those books, the good, the bad, and the embarrassing, but it's done me a world of good to write them. And who knows, maybe someday after I've died, someone will read them and feel less alone or get some kind of enjoyment out of them, and I kind of like the thought of that.
My grandpa used to write a diary in Japanese, for a very long time, since the day he came from Japan to Brazil around ww2. There were a lot of notebooks written and I bet it would've been great to use them to write a book or something but my stupid uncle took all of the notebooks and sold them to recycle!!! It's been years that happened and I still can't believe he did that, so stupid!
