Greetings with a betty-smile
Feeling blue~
Today, my lecturer told our class to make a diary (another assignment yeay!).
At first, I’m a bit confused. Why? I used to write a diary in elementary school
and it’s been a long time since that moment. So, here, let’s take a look about a
brief explanation about diary.
What Is DIARY?
A
diary
(sometimes referred to as journal or notebook) is a record (originally in
handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by
date
reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A
personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings,
including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience.
Someone who keeps a diary is known as a
diarist.
The word
"journal" may be sometimes used for "diary," but generally
a diary has (or intends to have) daily entries, whereas journal-writing can be
less frequent.
Although
a diary may provide information for a
memoir,
autobiography
or
biography,
it is generally written not with the intention of being published as it stands,
but for the author's own use.
By
extension the term
diary is also used to mean a printed publication of a
written diary; and may also refer to other terms of journal including
electronic formats (e.g.,
blogs).
Why do we have to start keeping a diary? Why am I doing this kind of thing? I
mean, today lesson is especially great because I took a moment to think about
what I’ve made in the past and by writing a journal or diary, I’m able to write
what I believe in, how I feel, what my goals are and I can transfer my problem
into a diary, so, later, I can make problem-solving to my problems (reflection).
Writing a diary itself, I feel like I’m having a dialogue to myself, another
me. By writing a journal, I think that it allows us to see how far we’ve
changed over time. It make us understand our self-better. That’s how I’m
starting to write a journal/diary. Here, I will give you tips and reasons why
you have to start putting pen to paper.