212 - Be the Change - And Still I Write

MALE NARRATOR For centuries, people all around the world have kept diaries. They wrote down things that happened and maybe what they thought about it. They wrote to themselves, about themselves. And in the process, they wrote down their hopes and fears, and wisdom. In a way, these writings are like pictures frozen in time, and if we’re lucky enough to read them later, their writers tell us what the world was like, to them, on any given day. Teenagers have kept diaries too, but their stories all have something in common: growing up. Regardless of where they’re born, kids often ask the same questions: Who am I? Where do I belong? How do I fit in? For children trying to grow up in war, and who live with violence, poverty, and injustice, questions like that are important and urgent. A lot of diary-keepers never meant for anyone else to read what they wrote. Their words were private and maybe used just to focus their own thoughts. But other people wanted someone to read their diary. They wanted people to know their story because, in some cases, they thought they might not live to tell it for themselves. When you read a diary, you don’t just find out what happened during someone’s day. And you don’t just find out what they thought about something, you learn what they felt about it. You get to see what was in their heart.

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