The UK's BBC Radio 4 is currently airing a series in which various celebrities read from, and discuss, their teenage diaries. It's an amusing and sometimes insightful listen ... though my principal feeling is of astonishment at the fact of such teenaged journal keeping diligence.
I had a diary every year from as far back as I can remember, and was always very interested in the information which they contained, but contributed little to them of my own. None from my own teens survive, so far as I know, but if they did they would make for thin and unimpressive reading.
One diary, from a little earlier than my teens, did surface recently ... and illustrates the point. There are only four entries, all of them in the first two pages. Here is what one ten year old thought worth recording of his life, in early 1963, in the Pictorial Young Australian Chamber of Commerce Diary:
1st January : Stayed up to see new year in
2nd January : Overslept
6th January : Bad rash
8th January : Didn't feel well at first but OK now.
I don't, somehow, expect the BBC to call me any time soon...
2 comments:
Sort of a haiku....
[grin] You flatter me, Doc!
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