Week Three: My Garage Looks Like the Ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark

I'm a hoarder. If I have some sort of sentimentality to something that I own, I will not throw it away or donate it. Take magazines for example. I have boxes filled with Game Informer issues up until 2017/2018 when I realized I wasn't reading the newest issues anymore so it didn't make sense to keep renewing the subscription. But that doesn't even compare to the amount of Entertainment Weekly issues my mom has in the garage. I tried going into the garage a month ago to find some specific issues and I could barely find a couple. AND IT WAS A PAIN IN THE ASS TO FIND THEM! There was nowhere for me to sit, I just kinda sat on a box but the box was for clothes probably because it eventually started to melt off and fall down. If I look hard enough I can probably find them all. But that's a lot of issues, and a lot of boxes in the garage. And those are examples that I hope you can actually, like, understand. I've got other paper-things that I hoard that are a lot harder to verbalize. So with that in mind, yeah, I'm not really too crazy on destroying journals.

Then there's whether or not I want my family reading them. I won't lie, I tend to keep my family life (specifically my extended family, my parents and siblings know me very well), out of my "rest of my life". It's quite easy to do, all you have to do is not use your Facebook account. If my family found my "journals", would I be embarrassed? Maybe a little but it's not like I'm trash-talking them in the journals. If they found them they'd probably either get bored or give up on trying to understand them. I wouldn't want to DESTROY THE EVIDENCE SO THAT NONE MAY KNOW HOW I FEEL! Man I dare you to understand what I write. Not this, I hope you understand what you're reading right now.

Would I read the diary of another person? Depends. Were they arrested for possession of drugs? If so, yeah, I'd like to know what they wrote before getting caught. Now of course that's just a random example. But the point that I'm trying to make is that if someone's life isn't interesting, then their diaries probably don't have any interesting stories to tell. But if your life IS interesting, then let's crack that sucker open because I gotta know what was spiraling through your head!

But. At the end of the day, that's private information. Information that I am not meant to know about. I may be a lunatic but I am one that respects someone's privacy. In short, your secret's safe with me.

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  1. Truffle SaltFebruary 1, 2021 at 8:16 PM

    I like your honesty, if someone is a bore they most likely won't have too many great stories to tell. The journal of a secret agent would be great to read on the other hand. Unless the writer wants their journals to remain private, then it's up to us to maintain their wish and heed by it.

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  2. RsmydraFebruary 5, 2021 at 10:44 AM

    Good to know that there are people who respect privacy still; it seems like a lost cause these days since we feel so much pressure to share things we would not typically do. Our desire to connect with others has been much realized during COVID, so I will curious to see how this all plays out in the next few years; by "all this," I mean our access to social media and our inclinations to share ourselves online.

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