Five Year Diary ~ So It Begins
I bought a 5 year diary today. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, each page in the diary covers one day of the year and is divided into 5 sections, so each entry has space for just a few lines. For any given day, entry one will be the first year you start writing and then on the same day the following year, you add another entry below the first, until you have 5 years worth.
Each page in the diary contains five year’s worth of entries for one specific day of the year. So, for 3 April there are spaces for five separate entries. When my diary is finished, there should be an entry on the same page for April 3 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Awesome, right? I have always been fascinated by this concept, but also a little daunted. I wondered if I would be disciplined enough to fill it out every day and keep going for five years! Every now and then, I would go and look at the different 5 year diaries available - and then talk myself out of it.
What changed my mind? Well - last weekend I picked up my journal. I don’t always write every day - but when I do, the entries are fairly detailed. I started to flick through the notes I wrote in 2020, and I was surprised how interesting it was to see what I was thinking back in Feb 2020 as opposed to now. I ended up reading the whole book from cover to cover and it was really awesome to have captured thoughts, feelings , poetry, ideas and other little scraps of paper, drawings and items of interest. Afterward, I realised that it would be great to look back on these journals more often and then I remembered the 5 year diary, where you can look back at the previous year entries as you go. I immediately decided to revisit the idea.
I had another look at what was available and found one by Midori that I loved. It has a pleasing fabric texture to the hard cover and some lovely gold lettering and imagery on the front. It also has cool little pictures within the pages. Most importantly of all, the diary is not bulky and the paper quality is just beautiful, as are all Midori products.
We were up in Melbourne earlier today and so I picked up my diary from Bookbinder’s Design in Little Collins Street, Melbourne. And so, it begins!
I am not sure how I will go with writing in it every day but I will keep you posted.
L x
