Did you have one as a teenager ?Did you keep them & can read all of your exploits, worries , memories?
Do you still have one?
My DDx2 recently turned 50, yes 50 . Sadly that is just a year younger than my own Mum was when she passed away 😢💔
I digress .
Taking down a garden shed recently we uncovered a few boxes of my DD & DS teenage belongings.
I have no idea how they got into the shed but we managed to recover a lot of stuff that wasn’t spoiled .
And yes , her teenage diaries & letters from friends .
I put them all together in a box for her 50th Birthday 🎁
she now has Teenage girls 18,14,12 .
Omg what a laugh they all
had , she was the original version of Adrian Mole when you read the diaries .
However what struck us was that these teenagers my own GDs won’t have any of this as it’s all done on electronic gadgets, mobile phones mostly .
Where will all those memories be ?
The future will not hold those for them to be found in a shed , an attic or the back of a cupboard sadly .
I know my DD will spend many hours with her own DD’s & all those memories written in felt tip pen , scrawled every few days pages at a time .
They in turn will be able to continue to read & remember the times they all say together reading .
So , do you still have those innocent diaries , the ones that say ‘ today I
kissed …,,,, ’
‘ Gail & I bunked off of school, Mum came back from work early . We hid behind the end of the bed , I sat on top of Gail , i’m not sure how Mum didn’t hear us laughing 😆
I asked Mum if I could go to Cardiff with …… , she said ‘No’ I’ll ask her again tomorrow if she says no again , I’ll know she means it !!
Those sort of things !
For myself , I have suitcase of my own Mum’s letters & from those I have written a biography of her life for our whole extended family.
