Do you worry about privacy with your journal, or change what you’d write based on the fear of someone reading it?

Honestly sometimes I am worried about privacy. However, if I don’t write down my true feelings it’s an irrelevant practice if you tailor your writings to hide your true self.

Yes, I do. However I think that the possibility that someone will found it and read it is very low. So I don’t think about it when I’m writing, it would stop me from writing what I actually feel.

Sometimes I worry about privacy with my journal, and in the past I have told stories differently in fear someone might read them. Since I made a commitment to writing every night and to be honest with myself, it has encouraged me to live every day in such a way that I would not be embarrassed for someone to read about it. I fail at it all the time, because I’m human, but knowing that I’ll have to record my own actions helps me be more thoughtful about what I do during the day.

No I never worry about that. I keep it on my desk in plain View and trust those around me not to look at it. Even if they do though there is truly nothing to hide or be ashamed of in my journal.

Sometimes I notice myself writing in my journal as if someone else will read it but once I recognize this I can be myself in my writing and write only whats necessary to me. Sometimes I worry as if I’ll be marked on my journal entry but it’s only me who sees it. I’m only competing with myself, there are no judges. 😊

I do currently have that fear, my parents used to read my journals and tease me for the content, but I’m no longer living at their house and working on getting over that fear.

My journal isn’t my deepest thoughts but I do put in things that I like to keep private. Even protecting my simple feelings is important to me so if i knew someone who as ever wading Mubarak journal I would change what I write

Sometimes. I have had a bad experience with it before, but I am much more trusting of the people that have access to it now. They know it is a place for my own private contemplation.

I now have a diary app bc during high school some mates found out my diary and decided to read it out loud in front of my class.

Definitely! I always twist and rephrase my thoughts in order for them to be a bit more cryptic and opaque... every time my personal, inner feeling get out of my mind, I fear losing my control over them...