dear diary

My thoughts are provoked from some of the strangest places... most recently from an hilarious old move I just saw, The More the Merrier (1943) starring Jean Arthur and Charles Colbrun. Here's the scene that really got me thinking:



Mr. Dingle: Do you keep a diary, Miss Milligan?


Miss Milligan: (As she's writing her latest entry) No, of course I don't! (Pause.) Out of curiosity, why do you ask?


Mr. Dingle: There are two kinds of people -- those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done; and those who are too busy to write about it because they're out doing it.



I found myself staring at my own diary on the nightstand that night, wondering which person I was... and which I wanted to be...