I started my first diary 25 years ago on 28th September 1989. I used a lined hardback notebook that I decorated with stickers and pictures I cut out of magazines. How many of these pictures do you remember? I’m amused that there are so many images connected to the film Young Einstein because I don’t think I’ve seen it, but I guess I really wanted too.
I’ve never looked back through my diaries, and so to recognise my growth over the last quarter of a century I thought it would be interesting to reread them and share my words of wisdom. So here are my words from my second entry on 30th September 1989 (you can read more of this entry in a previous post).
Oh, the luxury of staying in bed until I was bored because I had nothing else to do; something I’ve forgotten about since having children. I might have had a black and white television in my room at this age, but my main entertainment would have been books.
And if you’re curious this is what I looked like about this time. This picture was taken during the summer holidays at the Who Framed Roger Rabbit display at MGM studios.
A lot of memories in that post 🙂
I can imagine, you were a great influence on me at that time so things like Pretty in Pink and the two Corey’s are definitely due to you!
Oh the Neighbours and Home & Away pictures, that takes me back…..I wouldn’t dare delve into my teen diaries, I would cringe so much!
Those programmes were so important then weren’t they. I remember rushing to get home from school so I could get in to see Home & Away.
I admit it is pretty embarrassing looking back over the diary, but it is also a little bit funny. I was starting to question why I’m keeping all these diaries if I didn’t look at them, so it seemed like a good time to start. Go on – have a peek in your diaries! Over the last 25 years I’ve changed a lot, I’m much less dramatic and negative now – I’ve regularly written that I hated people or things and that is word I rarely use now. If I continue with reading them I wonder if I’ll have similar thoughts inn 25 years looking back on what I’m writing now.