Why else do people start keeping a diary? It probably comes from a deep loneliness.
This is so true! At some point in my life, I kept a diary because I was very lonely. Not like I didn't have people to talk to, I did. In fact I had a lot of friends, but at the end of the day, it was my diary and I only.
The diary 'listened' to me without any castigation. If only it could talk back.
Eventually, I grew out of the diary stage to a journal stage. I don't call it diary anymore. I think it became a journal because it was more my daily activities, my thought and all