Diaries Saved Lives

What stays persistent throughout history is people using diaries to write their feelings out and what they did for the day.

This was the same for letters until technology became more prevalent. 

Many people wrote letters to their loved ones from different states, letters or postcards sent to friends, or condolences or congratulations cards.

Since technology had advanced more ways for people to communicate in less time and hassle. People do not send out letters as much anymore.

This is not the case for diaries though, they may not be popular as they once were back in the day, but it was still a way to write anything out to free your mind.

I saw this one YouTube video where a murder happened where this women’s nephew murdered her husband and investigators found good solid evidence in the husbands diary of clues of who his killer was.

He wrote down his feelings of fear he felt for his wife’s nephew since he was getting many death threats. This whole trial was in the late 60’s at the time.

The husband writing his diary is what made everyone around the world know what he felt before he was killed.

I am sure many diaries led investigators to have clues on many murders and disappearances.

Attaining and writing a diary also helped many specialists and professionals inside of what that persons mindset was like and used for psychological research.

This also is evident that when writing your feelings down in a diary your mental state is much better.

Writing your feelings down on paper is a reason that people in the 50’s and even before this time period had good control over their emotions and it was therapeutic for them.

They wrote about everything and made people feel like they could be vulnerable in a safe space.

This is good especially since mental health was not widely taken seriously nor advocated for preventing some common deaths at the time.

All I have to say is diaries are life savers and is in a way a comforting shoulder to cry on.