I kept a diary as a teen. I enjoyed making the daily summary. It was mostly about my escapades with my friends and my crushes and adventures with boys. It was light hearted and funny; not filled with sadness or worry. When it was full, I threw it in the dumpster. I threw away practically everything I ever wrote. I felt it could be ‘incriminating’, should it fall into the wrong hands (not literally criminal in any way, though).

I’ve really regurgitated plenty of thoughts in my over 6000 posts here. Yet this is also different from journaling and from a diary.