I found mine from the 1st grade, apparently I wanted to be a farmer. I have absolutely no idea why. Majored in biomedical engineering, so...things changed 😂
I did from 5th grade to early college years . I too in pre teen angst threw away one diary due to being love sick over a certain boy named Mohamed , whom I had an legendary crush over . I want to encourage my son to keep a journal so he can express himself and have those memories as well. This was awesome Evelyn, thanks for inviting us to meet young Evelyn.
Kept one from 7th grade through college. And I still have them (still in secret locations, and yeah I live alone 🤷🏾♀️). All the tv shows I wasn’t allowed to watch that I watched anyway were updated in my diary by code. The codes were my phonetic spelling of the theme music. 90210 was na na na na na na na na. 😂😂😂
I feel like we often forget that children have really complex and rich inner lives. They have the capacity for extremely poignant emotions just like adults do, just with less linguistic ability to express them. It was an absolute joy to watch and reminisce with you. Thank you so much for sharing! As for my sort-of diary secrets, in elementary school, I went through the yearbooks and circled the pictures of boys who scared me and girls who I thought were pretty. Boy, was that telling!
Lmfaooo I wish I still had mine, my mom read mine and I felt so violated that I threw it away and never wrote one again. Even though all I wrote about was school 😂It's been like 15 years but I'm still salty.
Same. She called me so many names even though there was nothing scandalous in it. It led me to becoming a messy room having teen who was disorganized mentally and physically. I'm a grandma now and I still struggle with it.
Thats horrible. My mother did the same and would throw it away. I find it so difficult to keep an honest journal to this day and I am a grown woman with a teenaged daughter of my own. I try to encourage my daughter to write because she's really quiet and I want her to have a way to process her feelings even if it isn't with me or someone else.
I remember I would write diary entries, and I would go into my older sisters room, steal her pink lip gloss, and put on like 2 pounds of it and kissed the bottom of the page 😂
as a dude i call it a journal. yes. and there are things in it that will never be seen by eyes other than mine. I was tearing with mixed emotions as you read this. we are so innocent as children looking back at even someone else's past is......a lot. blessing.
I wrote about my crush in my diary at 6years old. My sister found it and read it aloud for my mom IN MY PRESENCE. Mortification and betrayal can only begin to describe the feelings that I felt. Took me almost a score to forgive her...in fact, writing this comment is giving me slightly heated flashbacks. Like dzamn, she did me like that huh?
That’s why I never kept a diary. I had hella trust issues and knew my family would read it. At like 8 I believed i was writing my own blackmail manual 😂
Yes I still write in a journal because sometimes I want to give the universe these hands but the universe can fight so I just write down how I feel about the universe lol
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I once kept a diary in 6th grade. I brought it to school one day. (Terrible idea) I remember during art class I went to the bathroom and one of my class mates started reading it out loud to everyone. 😭And of course she was reading the page where I talked about my crush in computer class. And oh was I dramatic about my crushes. I just love his cute lips... I don’t care if he was a bad boy... ect. 🤦🏾♀️ ⚰️💀😫Ahgghhdb. I was so shy I didn’t even take up for myself. I was mortified at the time but I look back now and laugh. But man, why are kids so evil?
Kids are terrible sometimes lol. When I was little I wrote to the Maury show about my feet lol. Someone snatched the paper and read it out loud and I cried :/. I wanna relive that day to snatch it back and cuss them out.
This was the sweetest thing ever. When I was 12 I took a pledge to lose weight. I did 500 sit ups a day for a month. I had a 4 pack but it hurt too much to laugh and I love to laugh so I gave up
My diary experience went a little something like this: 10 y/o me: First page out the gate- writes about a cute boy from class. Dad: Trespasses bedroom. Proceeds to unlock tiny lock, and read about boy. 10 y/o me: Upon returning home, finds diary in kitchen trash along with my hopes and dreams. The end.
AYE SHOUT OUT TO GROWING UP HAVING RELIGIOUS CLASSES AS CURRICULUM!! AND THE UNIFORM! we know damn well the school slacks were never meant for girls with hips. Pockets stuck all the way out always 😂
I kept a diary when I was young till now. Watching this made me start writing again. My secret was my imaginary friend called Chubby who was a cloth cat-snake that said nothing but positivity. Now Chubby is manifested through my meditation. Chubby was Gods people. I had a rough childhood. Ohh, this comment took a turn. LOVE YOUR VIDEO 😅♥️
Omg the level of growth. Lol. I was a special special child 😂😂😂😂 One thing that hasn't changed "i'm super opinionated".... The tragedy is how often I became infatuated when I was younger. Just all infatuated for no damn reason on the guys 🤣🤣🤣
"Dear Diary, how are you doing?" WUT? It's crazy how many of us have the same story of a parent snooping through our journals! I tossed all mine and stopped journaling for a long time because of that. Now that I'm back into it, I encourage my kids to journal too and have assured them I won't invade their privacy like mine was. More journaling videos plz!
Definitely do - it's a great time for self-reflection and meditation. Nowadays a lot of people aren't comfortable with their own thoughts - journals sort of force you to.
I did twice and my mom read them and then would bring up private things I said on the sly when she was mad at me 😪. That’s where my trust issues began. I filled one journal last year and even then I still never FULLY express myself for fear of someone finding it, reading it, and using it against me. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Love your personality so much!
This was such a great idea for a video, I actually started to cry a bit😢 I came across my childhood diary a few weeks ago. The entries span from ages 11 to 17, a very rough time in my life. Some happier highlights that I remember: -I had named my diary Charity, after a character from my favorite soap opera that I should NOT have been watching, Passions. -My handwriting never really got any better in the span of 6 years. -And I developed a hopeless crush on any and every boy that ever spoke to me. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Before I even watch this, Evelyn I hope you publish a memoir one day (soon) because my black soul is rejoicing at how lit it would be! Especially hearing you narrate it on audible with potential Kenyan annunciations. Please make it happen😁😁❤️ ok lemme watch now
Michelle and Trevor Noah are two people who can write their faces off. I found their memoirs to be highly detailed and balanced with those succinct and hilarious moments that kept me laughing and thinking about my own life.
I never had a diary because growing up in a very religious home I knew my parents would be against so I kept all that stuff in my head. It was just safer that way. My daughter is 13 and while she doesn't keep a diary where she writes things down, she is an artist and all her feelings can be seen in her art work. She has dozens of sketch books, and she doesn't let anyone see them. It's her private life so I let her keep it so.
I lost or threw away alllll of my childhood journals. I try to purposfully journal now and it's so it or miss. I realized that technology has my back low-key because I use the hell out of the Notes app on my phone. I never intended to use it as a journal but I actually went through through the notes one day and realized that I digitally journaled my way through two years of divorce. It was so dope to see how far I've come.
I use my phone to journal as well. It started with the notes app but since seeing a therapist, I've started using voice notes. I find that speaking is a more direct way to capture my thoughts
In Oct of 1999 I was about to be 17. And I thought your brother’s name was baby Blo? 😂😂 honestly I had no idea his name was Steven 😊🤷🏿♀️😂. Okay back to the video
I found my diary from when I was in 10th grade. Let’s just say, I’m happy I’ve gotten command over the English language (I used to talk like I wasn’t going to school everyday😅) and I’m no longer infuriated with my mom lol.
I see you experience that oldest sibling angst. I had 3 siblings 🤣. Never kept a solid diary cuz i saw enough folks on TV get their secrets read. And my mom seemed like the type to do that, so i bottled everything up.
Awww! This is making me nostalgic to read my old diaries. I already know young Bri was a nerdy and emotional child so the second hand embarrassment I'm about to catch reading my younger self's thoughts back...Jesus help 😂
How does one write about one’s self: A Memoir. Seriously though, I’m trying to write a personal statement right now and it is impossible!!! Also, the dramatic music throughout this was fantastic-particularly the “Steve is a crybaby” section. 😂
Girl, I feel your struggle, I just finished my personal statement. I highly recommend Alan Gelb’s “Conquering the College Admissions Essay,” it’s super easy to read and was a huge lifesaver for me. Good luck!
When you said 'I don't want to say the rest' 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Steve! I don't keep a diary but I did used to write imaginative stories and some diary entries as a child. I remember writing about a time when me and my sibling were on 'non-speaking terms' 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️. A couple of years ago, I found a card I wrote (at age 6) to my best friend who moved schools, telling her what was happening at school and how I missed her and I didn't want to go to school without her (or something along those lines) 😣
Omg! I absolutely love this! I've kept a diary since I was 8 years old and periodically read over my old ones. My 8 year old self also simply listed the days events with no real commentary or specificity. Thank you for sharing with us and giving us context. That really set it off! I def thought Evelyn was going to recommend "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. I like Tiffany but there is no way in HELL I will listen to her talk for 8 hours. I'd rather just read it. P.s. Gabrielle Union's book (We're Going to Need More Wine) on audible changed my life 🍷💜
I was given a diary in elementary school I just found it yesterday...i named it Di Di. There's pressed rose petals and ticket stubs. I read a couple pages...yeah nobody must ever read this my goodness I think it reads like I was was psychopath. My mood swings were crazy.
" everyone thinks I am a happy smart girl, but really I feel like nothing" I know that is an emotional journal entry but I couldn't help but relate this to my 10 year old journal self and could not stop laughing.
Also cried when you said you felt like nothing! I kept a diary as well which was filled w some disturbing and dark poetry lol. Nowadays I only journal regularly when I’m in a bad place, but I still write some disgusting mushy poems about my bf 😭 they’re literally so embarrassing I read em and say “ew”
Hi Evelyn! I'm 24 and I have kept a diary since I was in 5th grade ( and I still have them all!). You know what's funny? Since I have journaled through most of my life, I know which journals were from a certain period in my life. I'm a very happy person, but I have one journal from when I went through a three year depression in college. Every once in a while I'll re-read through my journals , but that one I have yet to read again. Your video kind of inspired me to maybe take a peak at it... or at least think about doing it at some point haha! Loved this video Evelyn and thanks for sharing :)
Ohhhh!!! This was precious and innocent! I wished I kept some of my childhood diaries, but teenage angst! But now being a 20-something, I keep a diary because, FEELINNNGGGSSSSS!!!!
I did as a preteen, but my mom read through it and made my dad read it so they could both sit down with me to discuss it. After that breach of trust and embarrassment, I never really felt comfortable writing my thoughts down in a diary.
Who else could keep me 10 whole minutes as they read from their childhood diary? Never mind crying tears of laughter throughout? Gotta go find mine now.
This is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂 I don’t laugh at too many TH-cam videos because I feel like you tubers normally force it.. but you are sincerely hilarious!!! Keep em coming!!
I kept several diaries and actually have one today that I don't write in very often, I'll admit. I'm sad I didn't keep the ones I had from my childhood. I'd love to go back and read them.
I kept a regular journal through high school and college. I still write from time to time but nothing as dramatic as the early years. I have a box that I keep them in. Watching this makes me want to read them.
This was great. I do have many journals that I've kept from high school...I love too see my growth and progress. My current journal is more like a prayer journal but it's so therapeutic!!
Yes I keep a diary/journal. I have on & off for most of my life. All my childhood diaries we're destroyed in hurricanes. I do it to get the thoughts out my head.
EVELYN! LOL I tell you, everytime I watch your videos I feel more and more like you're my spirit animal. I can't believe you said fluffy! That's how I describe my extra "fluff" as well... I've never heard anyone else say that, so that definitely made me laugh. I still write the time on my journal entries... Not sure what difference that will make in the future because it hasn't seemed to make a difference thus far from the past LOL, but I don't feel right when I don't do it. I was always told to write, but I enjoyed speaking more growing up, but being an introvert, and being older now, I've learned the value in consistently journaling. The release is necessary and as much as I resisted writing before, I secretly enjoy it now!
I have ripped out pages, ripped them out to hide them easier hahaha. I also threw out the ones from when I was younger, unfortunately. When you read 'I got an invitation to Amy's GLAMOUR party' I got so excited. We all know how that ends.
Kept a journal since I was in fourth grade, I’m 23 now 😬. Some things are way too painful to read again, but it’s still nice to have the option to relive certain moments in my life.
I had a diary from 11 to 13. Its a little depressing. My outlook on life was so different from my peers, not in a bad way. I was just over everyone and lonely even though i am the oldest of 6 kids @ the time. I cut my hair and played my violin. 😲lol
Where is the freakin' LOVE button??! A simple like for this video just doesn't do it justice! Girl! The entries from June 6 and June 12, 2001 had me ROLLIN'!!! I love that little shopping list! You're inspiring me to look for my old journals and diaries and see what kind of thoughts my younger self had. Thank you for sharing a few of your memoirs with us! Love you girl, peace
I kept a few, but I would never read them out loud. There was the typical cringe-y crush stuff that would be okay, but I really let loose when I was mad or frustrated. I wrote some...unkind things lol. I don't want to stir up trouble. I think I got rid of the evidence long ago. I hope my parents didn't pry and read those things. I'm kind of scared to ask.
yes!!! i also like listening to people narrate their life story! i tried to keep diaries in middle school but my mom took them away. idk why. but i officially started journaling again like 5 years ago! I wish i still had those older diaries!
I had LOTS of diaries with LOTS of secrets, and my older sister(S) used to find them, steal them, and read them OUT LOUD to my granny (she raised us). This incriminated me to no end, and I'm still traumatized by the aftermath of that 😌😫
This video really made me wish I had my old diaries lol! I keep a diary now for a few reasons. I think they’re good for reflection and evaluating yourself over time. Diaries are also how people long into the future get an idea of what everyday life was like in the past.
Love this video! I do keep journals since 4th grade but I was embarrassed that someone would find it😳so I torn it up and threw them away. Starting at 16 years old, I vowed to myself to never dispose my journals no matter how embarrassing they are. I’m now 31 and still have them👍🏾I still keep a journal to document my life and as I get older I want to look back on who I was or still am. I love these videos you produce Evelyn! And no it’s not bad you wanna lose weight. I felt the same at 10 years old😬and still do now. Whatever you decide weightwise, you’re the greatest! Keep on with your storytelling! I’m here for it!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I have kept a diary/ journal all of my blessed life... and when I see an old one I laugh and reread the thoughts and ideals of my youth! Sometimes... I even read some to my children!
I been keeping a diary since as far back as I can rememeber. Now, facebook is kind of a diary...sort of. I write philosophical things there. But I think I am going to start an Igbo diary and start trying to journal in Igbo as a way to practice, but also multi task.
"I was always me." I feel like that also describes my journal entries. I've kept all of mine, since I was 10. I'm 34 now. I hope, should I have kids someday, to share some of my entries with my kid(s), so that they can hopefully find some connection and common ground in that weird world of adolescence. Thanks for sharing Evelyn!!!
I still have my diaries from like the 6th grade. I too was a stressed out kid. I still write. I like the ability to look back and reference what was going on in my life during any period of time. I have SO MANY great stories that I COMPLETELY FORGOT about. And it's the BEST de-stresser I have ever had. Works every time. Everyone should at least try it.
I used to keep one but after a while, as an adult, I learned that I was ruminating in too many unproductive thoughts so I stopped. It’s fun to read the ones from when I was young and innocent.
I kept a diary off and on when I was really young. In college I journaled frequently and still do to this day. I have five just from my college years. It’s interesting to look back at my thoughts and see my growth.
I was reading the entry on the far right in the background when you were talking about Audible..."i feel tired and sad..feel like a loser" I have so many old journals as an ADULT like that from feelings I carried from a child. I just hope that you dont feel this way in your heart of hearts now. Things changed for me when I really got the truth of who I was in Christ. There is NOTHING like the love of God.
I have, until very recently, always journaled in composition notebooks. I have books and books dating back to fifth grade. WHEW, CHILE. The drama. The depression. The uncontrollable pre-teen perspiration.
I loved this. My first diary years started around yours, 1999 when I was around 10. I kept a diary all throughout highschool as well. I still have them to this day at 29 years old. I remember writing about how hot Keanu Reeves was in the Matrix and this boy in a crest commercial LMAO. I sometimes as I'm cleaning up I'll take them out and read them, ugh miss those times...sometimes.
I'm 50+ and I've kept my diaries from when I was 11 or 12. Occasionally, I still write in a journal, but for the most, part, I have to say, that now my daily LOTD videos have become my form of journaling. Not only do I talk about what lipstick/gloss I'm wearing that day, but I also talk about my day at work, a co-worker or two, unemployment, etc. So, I write a lot less now, but when I feel something needs to be written for posterity's sake, I'll enter it in my journal.
I kept I diary on and off as a kid but I threw them away. I wish I hadn’t because I’d love to see exactly when I lost hope in people...especially myself. I, too, felt like I was nothing at a very young age. As a teen it fluctuated and then senior year I went off the deep end and some how climbed back up around my early 20s. The issue I have is that I’ve never addressed those feelings so now I’m almost 30 and have to do the adult thing of finding a therapist that’ll drag these past skeletons out and help me face them. 🤷🏽♀️ #DiaryOfAMagicalBlackGirl
I've kept diaries since I was 7 and I'm in my 30's now. Mine are pretty difficult to look back on because they just show a lifelong battle with depression. But hearing yours read was so sweet! This was a really nice video idea and you've always been a creator. :)
Did y'all ever keep a diary? Tell me all yo secrets!
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Evelyn From The Internets I too threw mine away 😔
I found mine from the 1st grade, apparently I wanted to be a farmer. I have absolutely no idea why. Majored in biomedical engineering, so...things changed 😂
I did from 5th grade to early college years . I too in pre teen angst threw away one diary due to being love sick over a certain boy named Mohamed , whom I had an legendary crush over . I want to encourage my son to keep a journal so he can express himself and have those memories as well. This was awesome Evelyn, thanks for inviting us to meet young Evelyn.
Kept one from 7th grade through college. And I still have them (still in secret locations, and yeah I live alone 🤷🏾♀️). All the tv shows I wasn’t allowed to watch that I watched anyway were updated in my diary by code. The codes were my phonetic spelling of the theme music. 90210 was na na na na na na na na. 😂😂😂
I kept a journal from 7th to 9th grade. Every time I look back at it,i get shook. I was a very down and out person.
I threw em out. My mama kept breaking into them to correct the grammar with red pens. 😥😥😥
Lol WHAT???😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yo, your mom is savage! LMAO
Omg! What! 🤣😂
I’m crying!! 😂😂
she did what now???? 😂💀
"I know God will help me with the report" Amazing 😂 I need some of little Evelyn's faith and confidence, tbh
Professors who make software? That's next level pretend lol
Right?!
I feel like we often forget that children have really complex and rich inner lives. They have the capacity for extremely poignant emotions just like adults do, just with less linguistic ability to express them. It was an absolute joy to watch and reminisce with you. Thank you so much for sharing!
As for my sort-of diary secrets, in elementary school, I went through the yearbooks and circled the pictures of boys who scared me and girls who I thought were pretty. Boy, was that telling!
Definitely
It's so funny, because I did the opposite. I circled all the boys I liked, exed-out the boys I didn't liked, and exed-out the girls who were bullies.
Lmao Baby Evelyn was straight and to the point. I definitely still have my journals from the third grade...
Jouelzy what cracked my skull...October 11th 1999 I was wilding out in my first semester of college! #damn 🤦🏾♀️
First thing I thought is that you had OUTSTANDING hand writting as a 9 year old
SugoiZoe Hahahah thank you!! We also had penmanship class lmaooo
Evelyn From The Internets A whole penmanship class?! The UK missed out on that one 😂
Lmfaooo I wish I still had mine, my mom read mine and I felt so violated that I threw it away and never wrote one again. Even though all I wrote about was school 😂It's been like 15 years but I'm still salty.
Moms. Same thing happened to me. The violation.
I feel seen.
Same. She called me so many names even though there was nothing scandalous in it. It led me to becoming a messy room having teen who was disorganized mentally and physically. I'm a grandma now and I still struggle with it.
That's so sad😭😭😭
Thats horrible. My mother did the same and would throw it away. I find it so difficult to keep an honest journal to this day and I am a grown woman with a teenaged daughter of my own. I try to encourage my daughter to write because she's really quiet and I want her to have a way to process her feelings even if it isn't with me or someone else.
I remember I would write diary entries, and I would go into my older sisters room, steal her pink lip gloss, and put on like 2 pounds of it and kissed the bottom of the page 😂
Miss Maris lmfaoooo
“STEVE... IS A CRIME BABY” 10 year old Evelyn was dead about to throw hands
Miss Maris 😂😂 A crybaby
as a dude i call it a journal. yes. and there are things in it that will never be seen by eyes other than mine. I was tearing with mixed emotions as you read this. we are so innocent as children looking back at even someone else's past is......a lot. blessing.
Omg, I so agree with you 👏🏾
Josharmond Mckinson-Romney this comment reminds me of Doug Funnie. "It's not a diary, it's a journal!"
Bruh why did I tear up when you said “sometimes I feel like nothing” 😢 lol this was such a good idea for a video! ❤️
Curliful yes, just hearing that hurt my feelings too. Like oh no please don’t feel like that baby Evelyn lol
"today was good i had a good day" young evelyn flexing on us
also july 17, 2000 is nearly a month before i was BORN evelyn ahhh
I wrote about my crush in my diary at 6years old. My sister found it and read it aloud for my mom IN MY PRESENCE. Mortification and betrayal can only begin to describe the feelings that I felt. Took me almost a score to forgive her...in fact, writing this comment is giving me slightly heated flashbacks. Like dzamn, she did me like that huh?
That’s why I never kept a diary. I had hella trust issues and knew my family would read it. At like 8 I believed i was writing my own blackmail manual 😂
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🤣🤣 same!
Yes I still write in a journal because sometimes I want to give the universe these hands but the universe can fight so I just write down how I feel about the universe lol
Tyi Blackmon This is MY LIFE! 😂😂🙌🏾
@@Roseyyyyyyyyyyyyy I'm so glad I'm not the only one lol 😂📝
Tyi Blackmon 😂😂👊🏾
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evelyn, you do sponsorships SO RIGHT. i have zero problems watching sponsored content from you, because i know that the entire video is relevant without it being "in your face" or pushy. Brands, are you watching? This is how we want our sponsored content.
I once kept a diary in 6th grade. I brought it to school one day. (Terrible idea) I remember during art class I went to the bathroom and one of my class mates started reading it out loud to everyone. 😭And of course she was reading the page where I talked about my crush in computer class. And oh was I dramatic about my crushes. I just love his cute lips... I don’t care if he was a bad boy... ect. 🤦🏾♀️ ⚰️💀😫Ahgghhdb. I was so shy I didn’t even take up for myself. I was mortified at the time but I look back now and laugh. But man, why are kids so evil?
kktori 😂😂😂💀 Awww I felt that! Kids are cruel , I wouldve been mortified
Kids are terrible sometimes lol. When I was little I wrote to the Maury show about my feet lol. Someone snatched the paper and read it out loud and I cried :/. I wanna relive that day to snatch it back and cuss them out.
I did the same thing in 4th grade🤦🏽♀️. I brought it to school except I actually read it to a few people because I lacked common sense
This was the sweetest thing ever. When I was 12 I took a pledge to lose weight. I did 500 sit ups a day for a month. I had a 4 pack but it hurt too much to laugh and I love to laugh so I gave up
Awww that is so cute
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I teared up a little for baby Evelyn. The first sad one really took me back. This was sweet.
My diary experience went a little something like this:
10 y/o me: First page out the gate- writes about a cute boy from class.
Dad: Trespasses bedroom. Proceeds to unlock tiny lock, and read about boy.
10 y/o me: Upon returning home, finds diary in kitchen trash along with my hopes and dreams.
The end.
Why do we have the same exact story 😭😭
Melanated & moisturized, Lupita level acheived
AYE SHOUT OUT TO GROWING UP HAVING RELIGIOUS CLASSES AS CURRICULUM!! AND THE UNIFORM! we know damn well the school slacks were never meant for girls with hips. Pockets stuck all the way out always 😂
This was a breath of fresh air! You need to read those accusations to your mother and brother.
Yes! #KeepingReceipts. But you know they might clap back with that 1 Corinthians 13 "love keeps no record of wrong". 🤣😂🤣
I kept a diary when I was young till now. Watching this made me start writing again. My secret was my imaginary friend called Chubby who was a cloth cat-snake that said nothing but positivity. Now Chubby is manifested through my meditation. Chubby was Gods people. I had a rough childhood. Ohh, this comment took a turn. LOVE YOUR VIDEO 😅♥️
Omg the level of growth. Lol. I was a special special child 😂😂😂😂 One thing that hasn't changed "i'm super opinionated"....
The tragedy is how often I became infatuated when I was younger. Just all infatuated for no damn reason on the guys 🤣🤣🤣
I know GOD!!!! Shondough!!!🙌🏽🙌🏽😂😂😂😂😂
"Dear Diary, how are you doing?" WUT?
It's crazy how many of us have the same story of a parent snooping through our journals! I tossed all mine and stopped journaling for a long time because of that. Now that I'm back into it, I encourage my kids to journal too and have assured them I won't invade their privacy like mine was. More journaling videos plz!
The holy ghost after reading GOD...I'm here for it! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
My kids are 8 & 9 and this video makes me want to have them write a journal entry a few times a week.
Lemon Squeezy I threw mine away like eve did, if you have your kids journal, try and hide them through their teen years 😂
I think I will do the same with my seven year old.
Definitely do - it's a great time for self-reflection and meditation. Nowadays a lot of people aren't comfortable with their own thoughts - journals sort of force you to.
Don't read it.
"I might go but right now, I'm crying."
*literally me when anyone invites me somewhere* lmaoo
I did twice and my mom read them and then would bring up private things I said on the sly when she was mad at me 😪. That’s where my trust issues began. I filled one journal last year and even then I still never FULLY express myself for fear of someone finding it, reading it, and using it against me. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Love your personality so much!
"I told her to hush tho because it was my solo " 😭😩😂 mama better gon on somewhere
“everyone thinks I’m a happy smart girl, but sometimes I feel like nuthin” ... is someone dusting onions? 😩
This was such a great idea for a video, I actually started to cry a bit😢 I came across my childhood diary a few weeks ago. The entries span from ages 11 to 17, a very rough time in my life. Some happier highlights that I remember:
-I had named my diary Charity, after a character from my favorite soap opera that I should NOT have been watching, Passions.
-My handwriting never really got any better in the span of 6 years.
-And I developed a hopeless crush on any and every boy that ever spoke to me.
Thanks so much for sharing!!
This is great! And I looveed Passions!!
This was so sweet and adorable. Baby Evelyn was a cutie and Woman Evelyn is smart and beautiful as well.
I didn't want this video to ennndddd...😭😭😭😭 so so good
I got way emotional when you were 9 and you said “sometimes I feel like nothing” 😭😭😭
Me too🤗
So did I.
Before I even watch this, Evelyn I hope you publish a memoir one day (soon) because my black soul is rejoicing at how lit it would be! Especially hearing you narrate it on audible with potential Kenyan annunciations. Please make it happen😁😁❤️ ok lemme watch now
I’m reading (listening) to Becoming by Michelle Obama. I started with Audible because of you 😊
Michelle and Trevor Noah are two people who can write their faces off. I found their memoirs to be highly detailed and balanced with those succinct and hilarious moments that kept me laughing and thinking about my own life.
I never had a diary because growing up in a very religious home I knew my parents would be against so I kept all that stuff in my head. It was just safer that way. My daughter is 13 and while she doesn't keep a diary where she writes things down, she is an artist and all her feelings can be seen in her art work. She has dozens of sketch books, and she doesn't let anyone see them. It's her private life so I let her keep it so.
I lost or threw away alllll of my childhood journals. I try to purposfully journal now and it's so it or miss. I realized that technology has my back low-key because I use the hell out of the Notes app on my phone. I never intended to use it as a journal but I actually went through through the notes one day and realized that I digitally journaled my way through two years of divorce. It was so dope to see how far I've come.
I use my phone to journal as well. It started with the notes app but since seeing a therapist, I've started using voice notes. I find that speaking is a more direct way to capture my thoughts
@@PortraitofAsha Does it transcribe it for you? Or do you play it back to listen to it?
In Oct of 1999 I was about to be 17. And I thought your brother’s name was baby Blo? 😂😂 honestly I had no idea his name was Steven 😊🤷🏿♀️😂. Okay back to the video
Just Call Me Wah dang you’re old af now
I found my diary from when I was in 10th grade. Let’s just say, I’m happy I’ve gotten command over the English language (I used to talk like I wasn’t going to school everyday😅) and I’m no longer infuriated with my mom lol.
Progress 🙌🏾
Nikki D For sure 💯 😁
I see you experience that oldest sibling angst. I had 3 siblings 🤣. Never kept a solid diary cuz i saw enough folks on TV get their secrets read. And my mom seemed like the type to do that, so i bottled everything up.
I'm journaling more nowadays. Because all my friends who can afford therapy started journaling and i steal their homework sometimes to heal myself
Awww! This is making me nostalgic to read my old diaries. I already know young Bri was a nerdy and emotional child so the second hand embarrassment I'm about to catch reading my younger self's thoughts back...Jesus help 😂
I could never read my childhood diary because I was the definition of extra. I'd just be rolling my eyes as I read.
How does one write about one’s self: A Memoir. Seriously though, I’m trying to write a personal statement right now and it is impossible!!!
Also, the dramatic music throughout this was fantastic-particularly the “Steve is a crybaby” section. 😂
RIGHT!!! I made it so interesting.
Girl, I feel your struggle, I just finished my personal statement. I highly recommend Alan Gelb’s “Conquering the College Admissions Essay,” it’s super easy to read and was a huge lifesaver for me. Good luck!
When you said 'I don't want to say the rest' 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Steve! I don't keep a diary but I did used to write imaginative stories and some diary entries as a child. I remember writing about a time when me and my sibling were on 'non-speaking terms' 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️. A couple of years ago, I found a card I wrote (at age 6) to my best friend who moved schools, telling her what was happening at school and how I missed her and I didn't want to go to school without her (or something along those lines) 😣
Omg! I absolutely love this! I've kept a diary since I was 8 years old and periodically read over my old ones. My 8 year old self also simply listed the days events with no real commentary or specificity.
Thank you for sharing with us and giving us context. That really set it off! I def thought Evelyn was going to recommend "Becoming" by Michelle Obama. I like Tiffany but there is no way in HELL I will listen to her talk for 8 hours. I'd rather just read it.
P.s. Gabrielle Union's book (We're Going to Need More Wine) on audible changed my life 🍷💜
I keep a diary for self care reasons. Cheaper than a therapist.
maureen hallissey girl 🤙🏾
This was so damn hilarious. I love it. You seriously have a remarkable gift. I LOVE your videos; it brings me so much joy. Thanks Sis. Ev
That's why little Evelyn had a note book at the zoo. Am looking forward to reading an actual memoir from you
I was given a diary in elementary school I just found it yesterday...i named it Di Di. There's pressed rose petals and ticket stubs. I read a couple pages...yeah nobody must ever read this my goodness I think it reads like I was was psychopath. My mood swings were crazy.
" everyone thinks I am a happy smart girl, but really I feel like nothing" I know that is an emotional journal entry but I couldn't help but relate this to my 10 year old journal self and could not stop laughing.
Also cried when you said you felt like nothing! I kept a diary as well which was filled w some disturbing and dark poetry lol. Nowadays I only journal regularly when I’m in a bad place, but I still write some disgusting mushy poems about my bf 😭 they’re literally so embarrassing I read em and say “ew”
Hi Evelyn! I'm 24 and I have kept a diary since I was in 5th grade ( and I still have them all!). You know what's funny? Since I have journaled through most of my life, I know which journals were from a certain period in my life. I'm a very happy person, but I have one journal from when I went through a three year depression in college. Every once in a while I'll re-read through my journals , but that one I have yet to read again. Your video kind of inspired me to maybe take a peak at it... or at least think about doing it at some point haha! Loved this video Evelyn and thanks for sharing :)
Ohhhh!!! This was precious and innocent! I wished I kept some of my childhood diaries, but teenage angst! But now being a 20-something, I keep a diary because, FEELINNNGGGSSSSS!!!!
So good Evelyn! Sometimes reading my diaries are so cringy. It's life. 🤦🤷
I did as a preteen, but my mom read through it and made my dad read it so they could both sit down with me to discuss it. After that breach of trust and embarrassment, I never really felt comfortable writing my thoughts down in a diary.
Who else could keep me 10 whole minutes as they read from their childhood diary? Never mind crying tears of laughter throughout? Gotta go find mine now.
This is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂 I don’t laugh at too many TH-cam videos because I feel like you tubers normally force it.. but you are sincerely hilarious!!! Keep em coming!!
I kept several diaries and actually have one today that I don't write in very often, I'll admit. I'm sad I didn't keep the ones I had from my childhood. I'd love to go back and read them.
The second diary entry written by Evangelical Evelyn SENT ME 😂😂😂😂 not only are you a poet, you are a PROPHET, amen? 💀
I kept a regular journal through high school and college. I still write from time to time but nothing as dramatic as the early years. I have a box that I keep them in. Watching this makes me want to read them.
lol remember radio shack 😂 and survived y2k 🙌🏾
I used to grade my days too. I'm so curious about those destroyed pages now. Lol!!!
This was great. I do have many journals that I've kept from high school...I love too see my growth and progress. My current journal is more like a prayer journal but it's so therapeutic!!
Yes I keep a diary/journal. I have on & off for most of my life. All my childhood diaries we're destroyed in hurricanes. I do it to get the thoughts out my head.
EVELYN! LOL I tell you, everytime I watch your videos I feel more and more like you're my spirit animal. I can't believe you said fluffy! That's how I describe my extra "fluff" as well... I've never heard anyone else say that, so that definitely made me laugh. I still write the time on my journal entries... Not sure what difference that will make in the future because it hasn't seemed to make a difference thus far from the past LOL, but I don't feel right when I don't do it. I was always told to write, but I enjoyed speaking more growing up, but being an introvert, and being older now, I've learned the value in consistently journaling. The release is necessary and as much as I resisted writing before, I secretly enjoy it now!
I bet even as a fetus you were adorable! ❤️ you Evelyn! 😍
I have ripped out pages, ripped them out to hide them easier hahaha. I also threw out the ones from when I was younger, unfortunately. When you read 'I got an invitation to Amy's GLAMOUR party' I got so excited. We all know how that ends.
Kept a journal since I was in fourth grade, I’m 23 now 😬. Some things are way too painful to read again, but it’s still nice to have the option to relive certain moments in my life.
I had a diary from 11 to 13. Its a little depressing. My outlook on life was so different from my peers, not in a bad way. I was just over everyone and lonely even though i am the oldest of 6 kids @ the time. I cut my hair and played my violin. 😲lol
Where is the freakin' LOVE button??! A simple like for this video just doesn't do it justice!
Girl! The entries from June 6 and June 12, 2001 had me ROLLIN'!!! I love that little shopping list!
You're inspiring me to look for my old journals and diaries and see what kind of thoughts my younger self had. Thank you for sharing a few of your memoirs with us! Love you girl, peace
I kept a few, but I would never read them out loud. There was the typical cringe-y crush stuff that would be okay, but I really let loose when I was mad or frustrated. I wrote some...unkind things lol. I don't want to stir up trouble. I think I got rid of the evidence long ago. I hope my parents didn't pry and read those things. I'm kind of scared to ask.
Thanks for doing this lol I always write like someone else will read my journals..idk why lol
yes!!! i also like listening to people narrate their life story! i tried to keep diaries in middle school but my mom took them away. idk why. but i officially started journaling again like 5 years ago! I wish i still had those older diaries!
The speaking in tongues 😂😂😂
Love this! I wish that I had kept my childhood journals and diaries. Awww baby Evelyn was my kinda girl.
I had LOTS of diaries with LOTS of secrets, and my older sister(S) used to find them, steal them, and read them OUT LOUD to my granny (she raised us). This incriminated me to no end, and I'm still traumatized by the aftermath of that 😌😫
This video really made me wish I had my old diaries lol! I keep a diary now for a few reasons. I think they’re good for reflection and evaluating yourself over time. Diaries are also how people long into the future get an idea of what everyday life was like in the past.
Love this video! I do keep journals since 4th grade but I was embarrassed that someone would find it😳so I torn it up and threw them away. Starting at 16 years old, I vowed to myself to never dispose my journals no matter how embarrassing they are. I’m now 31 and still have them👍🏾I still keep a journal to document my life and as I get older I want to look back on who I was or still am. I love these videos you produce Evelyn! And no it’s not bad you wanna lose weight. I felt the same at 10 years old😬and still do now. Whatever you decide weightwise, you’re the greatest! Keep on with your storytelling! I’m here for it!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I have kept a diary/ journal all of my blessed life... and when I see an old one I laugh and reread the thoughts and ideals of my youth! Sometimes... I even read some to my children!
I been keeping a diary since as far back as I can rememeber. Now, facebook is kind of a diary...sort of. I write philosophical things there. But I think I am going to start an Igbo diary and start trying to journal in Igbo as a way to practice, but also multi task.
“I was always me!!!” I love all of this❤️❤️❤️❤️
I threw all my diaries away as well. But in HS I used to write poetry. I still have those. Funny how relevant they still are.
"I was always me." I feel like that also describes my journal entries. I've kept all of mine, since I was 10. I'm 34 now. I hope, should I have kids someday, to share some of my entries with my kid(s), so that they can hopefully find some connection and common ground in that weird world of adolescence. Thanks for sharing Evelyn!!!
I still have my diaries from like the 6th grade.
I too was a stressed out kid.
I still write. I like the ability to look back and reference what was going on in my life during any period of time.
I have SO MANY great stories that I COMPLETELY FORGOT about.
And it's the BEST de-stresser I have ever had. Works every time.
Everyone should at least try it.
Oh my goodness i love little evelyn
I used to keep one but after a while, as an adult, I learned that I was ruminating in too many unproductive thoughts so I stopped. It’s fun to read the ones from when I was young and innocent.
I kept a diary off and on when I was really young. In college I journaled frequently and still do to this day. I have five just from my college years. It’s interesting to look back at my thoughts and see my growth.
Jesus, the one where lil evelyn was upset about forgetting her assignment tablet KILLED. started tearing up, no joke.
I was reading the entry on the far right in the background when you were talking about Audible..."i feel tired and sad..feel like a loser" I have so many old journals as an ADULT like that from feelings I carried from a child. I just hope that you dont feel this way in your heart of hearts now. Things changed for me when I really got the truth of who I was in Christ. There is NOTHING like the love of God.
The Last Black Unicorn was soooooooo good!!!!!! Even though she went thru so much (and I want thru none of that), it was still somehow so relatable.
I have, until very recently, always journaled in composition notebooks. I have books and books dating back to fifth grade.
WHEW, CHILE. The drama. The depression. The uncontrollable pre-teen perspiration.
I loved this. My first diary years started around yours, 1999 when I was around 10. I kept a diary all throughout highschool as well. I still have them to this day at 29 years old. I remember writing about how hot Keanu Reeves was in the Matrix and this boy in a crest commercial LMAO. I sometimes as I'm cleaning up I'll take them out and read them, ugh miss those times...sometimes.
I'm 50+ and I've kept my diaries from when I was 11 or 12. Occasionally, I still write in a journal, but for the most, part, I have to say, that now my daily LOTD videos have become my form of journaling. Not only do I talk about what lipstick/gloss I'm wearing that day, but I also talk about my day at work, a co-worker or two, unemployment, etc. So, I write a lot less now, but when I feel something needs to be written for posterity's sake, I'll enter it in my journal.
I kept I diary on and off as a kid but I threw them away. I wish I hadn’t because I’d love to see exactly when I lost hope in people...especially myself. I, too, felt like I was nothing at a very young age. As a teen it fluctuated and then senior year I went off the deep end and some how climbed back up around my early 20s. The issue I have is that I’ve never addressed those feelings so now I’m almost 30 and have to do the adult thing of finding a therapist that’ll drag these past skeletons out and help me face them. 🤷🏽♀️ #DiaryOfAMagicalBlackGirl
I have journals from childhood and it's always entertaining to read my thoughts as a child.
I've kept diaries since I was 7 and I'm in my 30's now. Mine are pretty difficult to look back on because they just show a lifelong battle with depression. But hearing yours read was so sweet! This was a really nice video idea and you've always been a creator. :)