The Diary of a Young Girl

Well, a hell lot of us know about this personal diary of Anne Frank, but still let me re introduce it to you.

So this "book" is a personal diary of a girl who started writing on her 13th birthday and took us to her journey in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

No, I am not "reviewing" someone's personal diary. It's more of a tool for me to document how much I felt touched with the entire diary and some of my most favorite bits which I could relate the most and which will always help me to be hopeful and grateful towards life in general.

I can't stress enough on how much this diary helped me to explore my own potential for writing or at least start as soon as possible. So here I am venting my feelings right after re-reading it after three years.

"And if I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself"

YES. Thank you for saying this.

Oh, we all know how much of her writing would have been known to world just by looking at her thoughts which she recorded in her personal diary.

"Anyone who doesn't write doesn't know how wonderful it is; I used to bemoan the fact that I couldn't draw at all, but now I'm more than happy that I can at least write."

I always wanted to write on public platforms but I could never do it out of fear of being judged and lack of confidence, Above lines from her diary spoke directly to my conscience. I could never draw or be " artistic" in any way. I never thought writing is an art to which I have a potential knack for!

I don't want to go on living without being artistic in any way, that thought always haunts me. But after reading this diary, it gave me a lot of courage to write, to start as soon as possible. So what I am not talented since teenage, I can devote my time to it and improve. Because it's something I really enjoy.

" I want to go on living after my death"

Well dear Anne, it makes us so happy that the one of your hundreds of wish from Secret Annex got fulfilled. Our hearts ache to imagine how much you missed going to school, to chit chat with your girls, to eat normal food, to live free.

You would have lived after your death with or without dying in holocaust (for those arguing if her diary would have been this famous without her dying in holocaust).

I could feel my heart racing when I reached diary entries of around May 1944, I kept turning pages to see how fast 1 August 1944 was approaching, her last entry in the diary before they got arrested on 4 August 1944!

I kept hoping to somehow go back in time and tell her to write more often than she is doing because their time in secret annex was ticking. And I was getting so fond of the writing which kept improving as time passed. Oh, wouldn't I just warn them if it was possible! But alas, that's what reading does to you. It takes you to the different imaginary trips without you realizing it.

I would definitely recommend everyone to read this at least once to look closely how they suffered during the World War II. And how still after all this, a family kept their spirit high and creative with never ending curiosity for learning, reading and writing.

So here comes the end of my "review" or vent. Ending this with one of my favorite lines from her diary.

"Because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Thank you for reading till here, hoping meet again.

Ritu