Week 3 Prompt

 


Read the following articles: 

Burning Your Diaries

Some day Someone...

Why You Should Never...

Decide if, one day, you will decide to destroy your journals/diaries. Do you want family members or friends to read your private thoughts? If you don't destroy them, who will?  Do you want to leave the decision in someone's hands? 

Even if you have never kept a journal, think about what you would do if you did. You can also consider yourself as a reader. Would you read diary entries that your parents, girlfriend, sibling, partner or friend wrote?

Mull over some of the ideas in the articles listed above and post your comments on the community blog. Explore the concepts of private, time and space, and/or purpose of a journal. Feel free to use your any of your own experiences and/or examples, references, etc...

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