Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Love of A Diary

I have been keeping a diary since the age of about 10. I have yet to unpack that diary to see the exact date.
What I have in my possession at the moment is the one that was randomly pulled from a box in our storage.
Diary Number 6.
1 June 1983 - 19 July 1983

DIARY NUMBER 6
I would sit for hours, cutting out words, phrases and pictures for my diary from magazines. Later I got my girlfriends to keep diaries too and we would spend afternoons together decorating them with statements our dramatic teenage minds thought were profound or mysterious.

CAN YOU TELL I GREW UP IN THE 80'S?
I wrote a lot. A lot of shit too! And I stuck in everything that passed through my hands! Chewing gum wrappers, the receipt from the school stationery I bought, bus tickets, chocolate wrappers... Oh, the chocolate wrappers! And then later, the chewing gum I had in my mouth when I was kissed. Yip, I did that. Revolting, I know.

Cadbury's Star Bar. South Africa 1983
Cadbury's Star Bar. UK 2012