But in a diary we just “write”,don’t we? And there is value in just writing. I feel as if I need to defend “writing”.

To put it very simply, writing I feel is the documentation of different aspects of our existence through language.

And our existence in general is described as thinking, feeling and doing.

Putting all those aspects in language(on paper, in a word doc. whatever)documents our existence and may (or not) generate meaning and further thought.

Just because someone’s diary is a plain personal record of events and experiences that are supposed unreliable by someone else doesn’t make reading that diary a less valuable way of knowing that person.

There really are different ways of knowing.

There is so much to who we are that both observation and introspection are needed to get the full picture I think. I don’t know if we learn more or less about a person if we read their diary vs. observe them and draw our own conclusions about them.

There are different ways of Knowing, each equipped with limitations and strengths. I did say that already didn’t I.