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Diaries, are you serious??
2003-02-04 16:48:10 (UTC)

Who's there?

Dear Diary,

Who are you? Seriously. I mean, people write to you as if
you've been their long lost friend, and yet you never
respond back. You give no words of advice, no words of
wisdom, and heck, you can't even give a hug, and you are
still a friend for people. You are a single thing in
their lives, yet you sometimes become the only thing in
their lives. But why do people write to you? It boggles
the mind when you really think about it.

Some would say that you offer a state of comfort, a place
to unwind and record daily events. But why would someone
want a recording about what happened to them a year
before? Why do you make people live in the past, instead
of the present? And why would anyone want to “talk” to a
book? Some conversation you give. You are alone, and you
attract loneliness.

Scholars have concluded that you have siblings, three
others to be exact. If this is true, then who are your
parents? Where is the history of your life for us to
read? People know little about you, sometimes even
nothing, yet they trust there deepest secrets to you.

Do you know why? I do. Because what you offer to people
is something that nothing else in the world can offer.
You make people dream when they are awake. People’s
fantasies, wishes, and real inner thoughts are told to
you. Why? Because you can’t tell others. That is why you
exist, and that is why you have become so popular.
Imagine the thought of always having a friend, no matter
what you do or what you say.

Throughout my recordings, I shall demonstrate this
theory. I shall show you, diary, how you please people
without knowing. How you create a world for them that is
nothing more than a façade.

This diary, is about you.




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