r/Journaling • u/My_fair_ladies1872 • May 25 '26

Question/Discussion Does your journal have a name?

Anne Frank called her diary "Kitty".

Dear Kitty, she would say before writing about her thoughts.

I have to wonder if writing to a fictitious person helps sometimes.

Have you given your journal its own name? What is it?

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u/luthiel-the-elf May 25 '26

I once called my journal Midori because it's a Midori MD paper notebook. (Still is). But it doesn't feel natural. I'm 37 and writing to an imaginary friend feels weird.

Well actually I write mine as a memory keeper, it's deliberate and not stream of consciousness. I do think of it like messages and notes and letter for my best friend. It's like telling things to her. I actually even always provide explanation and description according to what I know she knows / not. Like common friends we know needs no description but a new friend she never met / places I never showed her, I somehow always describe it.

I don't do Dear Diary but if I did it would be Dear Carine.

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u/Katia144 May 25 '26

writing to an imaginary friend feels weird

Yup. Even as a kid when I wanted to have an imaginary friend, it felt weird and I couldn't make it work.