Terry Prone: Today’s the day for young diarists to start writing the story of their lives
2024 may or may not be a happy new year, and we may or may not keep our resolutions. But, on January 1, a new diary is all clean white pages and a sense of glorious possibility
Six-year-old girls were in stationary shops this week picking out aggressively pink diaries with hologram pictures on the front and tin clasps guaranteed not to keep secrets from any prying mother. Picture: iStock
Never mind all that new year resolution stuff. Pointless, the whole thing, and you know it. The truth is that, by February, the gym subscription will be a complete waste of your money, and you’ll have broken your promise to stay off social media and be back frightening and depressing yourself.
What matters, today, is the marvellous possibility of turning the first page of a new diary.
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