It's useful to see what your mental state was when you wrote it. At least, when I've gone back to things I wrote in the past I was shocked at how self-absorbed

It's useful to see what your mental state was when you wrote it. At least, when I've gone back to things I wrote in the past I was shocked at how self-absorbed I sounded. I resolved to try and not live in my own world so much... After I shredded my old diary entries.