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12-10-2016 05:46 PM
Last year I read through mine, then destroyed them. I don't want my family to know my private thoughts. (funny, I couldn't even remember some of the things I wrote about - it intrigued even me!).
12-10-2016 05:59 PM
I would read it, then destroy it.
12-10-2016 08:03 PM
No one needs to the know the crazy that goes in my head that is why I never kept one.
12-10-2016 09:24 PM
Consider destroying them.
By having the chance others may read your journels you leave the interpertation of what you wrote up to them. Their conception of matters might be entirely different from what you were actually feeling ,meant, or wrote .
It could lead to misunderstandings, questions and wrong interpertations never to be answered. Maybe someone would be hurt.
12-11-2016 12:15 AM
Housecat, keep them when you want to stroll through the past. Your DILs may want to share the person that you were at their age if you care to share.
We journal for a variety of reasons. As long as it relieved your stress, gave you some peace, or helped you in other ways only you can tell.
12-11-2016 01:49 AM
i have shredded my journals after rereading them. The only person who they are important to or would understand or appreciate them is me.
12-11-2016 01:50 AM
I guess I am the odd man out. If my mother had kept journals, I would have loved to have them to read after she passed.
To have something in her own handwriting, just life in her own thoughts. Events. The trials and tribulations she went through. The happy. The sad. The man she loved so much in high school she talked about often. I always thought he was really the man she should have married.
Kids never seem to realize we are humans first. That we had a life before them. I would have a better understanding of who my mother was as a woman. She had a difficult life, but I only know bits and pieces.
I would ask your son if he wants them. They may end up to be very precious to him. But I would put the stipulation that he get them after death, unless you are comfortable answering any questions he might have. Leave the decision up to him if he wants them, and you make the decision of whether he gets them now or later.
I have nothing of my mother's. My Dad cleaned every bit of her out of their house without notifying any of us kids. I am still angry at that.
12-11-2016 05:46 AM
I agree....read them and then destroy them.
12-11-2016 06:43 AM
If it's yours and you plan to put it in book form to share with others that's one thing. If it's a family member, read if you like, but as the others said, destroy it.
I have to laugh when on clearing out my own mother's things, things of her interest, were not mine. She never said, this is to share for all of you. As my sister said, leave her personal thoughts to her and destroy anything she wrote.
I know I've journaled. I wouldn't want some family to read it. Therefore, I shred it.
JMHO in my life.
12-11-2016 08:37 AM
I kept a journal from the 90's until 2004. The purpose was more for stress relief, and a way of passing time on my 11-7 shift.
I read the journals after I retired, which were filled with a lot of work and family drama. My words brought back a lot of memories and feelings--good and bad--that I'd long worked thru and let go. I saw no purpose in saving the journals, and shredded every one. No regrets.
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