I am looking to start getting into this. But I have never enjoyed writing. I also feel a little iffy knowing that my diaries are sitting around somewhere in my room and my family can find it at any moment. If I were to type it would be faster, more secure as I can encrypt it, and it would not get lost as easily as I can upload the encrypted file to a cloud.
However, is typing any less effective at making you feel better than writing?
I kept hand-written journals for decades. One day I dug out some from the early 80s and thought, this is all just me whining at myself. I gathered them all up and burnt them. It was quite cathartic! I kept a couple of travel journals and I still have a notebook I whine into once in a very long while. I’ll burn it when it’s full. It’s just not interesting.
And you wouldn’t want your baby brother finding it and blabbing it to the world.