Open Diary is Back – What does it mean?

I started using OpenDiary a long time ago – when I was in high school – and I have many, many memories here. Some are embarrassing. Some are heart-warming. My account is probably one of the older ones here on this website, going back all the way to 2001, not too long after 9/11. That’s unbelievable, isn’t it? I blogged, wrote, mused, complained, ranted, and sometimes got downright violent here on this website, all the way from 9/11 and high school until grad school in 2014, when OpenDiary shut down. There are relationships, breakups, hopes, ambitions, fits of depression and desperation, and things I have long forgotten documented on these pages.

Since then, I’ve started keeping paper journals and have a hoard of material that’s written, drawn, and accented. I recommend it to all of you. Even if you revive this old habit of yours, consider keeping some paper journals. They’ll be hand-me-downs for kids and grandkids and perhaps even evidence for some future historian. Sex, drugs, physics, rock and roll? Who cares? Let’s be true to the world. Let’s be open with ourselves and share the people we really are. Isn’t that the only way humanity can move past some of its hangups with sex, drugs, religion, and existence?

More to come,

• R