Miss Diary and I are on the set where two painted windows, a vase with flowers on a shelf and a table in the center can be seen. Lights and cameras pointed at us. Both of us are sitting on two red sofas, ready to start the interview. Miss Diary is fluffy and pink with a very colorful unicorn, glitter and sparkling pearls.It also has a turquoise padlock.
Welcome Miss Diary! Thank you for coming!
Thank you for having me!
How are you?
Fine, as always.
Good to hear. Can you tell me your story? How it all started.
Well, it all started a long time ago when I was still an eucalyptus, actually, I was many eucalyptus… as many as my pages! I was tall and healthy, but one day someone cut my legs and took me to a factory, where I was cut in millions of pieces. Then I was taken to a tank where I was cooked with a lot of disgusting substances. I turned into a weird paste, I couldn’t even recognise myself…I was so scared that I even passed out! I woke up on a horrifying machine… I was reeeeally big and thin… and another machine came and started to roll me up. Then I was taken to another factory where I was cut into small pages. And this is just the beginning of my story…
How did the factory thing make you feel? Was it painful? It sounds like it was…
It sure was! I’m going to be serious with you, I don’t blame the people that did those horrible things to me because they were just doing their job and made the masterpiece you’re interviewing tonight, but at the time I was really mad at them. I didn’t understand why they were doing that to me. It made me feel worthless, I mean, I didn’t even have a choice! I didn't have a voice!
Miss Diary, I can see you have a cover… which, by the way, it’s gorgeous! Do you remember when you got it?
I do! That was actually very painful because they had to glue it and it was like someone was pulling my hair. But it was totally worth it! Now I feel comfortable and fashionable.
Since you’re a diary, I assume you have an owner. Does he/she use you often?
She does, she uses me every single day! In fact, she uses me as her therapist. Sometimes she goes through some deep moments and opens up with me. Even though I can’t talk to her because that’s not my job, I'm not supposed to interfere with her feelings directly. I felt bad for her, she didn’t deserve…she described horrible things, feelings that were destroying her, but thankfully this was in the past, she recovered, she’s finally happy and I think that deep down I helped her. And I’m glad I did!
May you tell us one story of an event that has marked you?
Sure! I remember this as it was yesterday. She came home smiling, for the first time in a while. She wrote the opposite of everything she had ever written before that day. It was her birthday and right in the morning she woke up with her family around her, they ate cake for breakfast and planned to have dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant. She had already made some progress at her new school, she had a nice group of friends and, for the first time, she had people around her who loved her instead of bullying her. She thought it would be a normal day at school, as no one knew it was her birthday… or so she thought! When she arrived at school everyone was acting normal, she went to class and she had a surprise test. She was a good student so it was easy for her, but at the bottom of the last page it was written “Look at the door”, she did so and her best friends, who had suddenly disappeared, entered the door with a cake singing Happy Birthday and going towards her. She said it was the best surprise EVER!.
What a beautiful moment!
Do you have any plans for the future?
I have a couple of things in mind, maybe… and only if she agrees with me, of course. I think I should be published, because her story is so inspiring. She stood up when there was no one else to help her. She has experienced so much… adventures, ups and downs… I think that deserves a book! But that’s only in the far-off future, for now I will continue on her side. Look at me, I’m only half written, she still has a lot of memories, feelings, good and bad days to write about.
Is there any negative aspect in being a diary?
Good question. In my case, I can’t think of any negative aspects. I love my owner. She's the best, but I guess that depends on the Diary. My owner had another diary when she was younger and he, yeah it’s a Mr.Diary, is still on the shelf. Sometimes I talk to him… he’s so annoying and stupid! He says that she was selfish and childish in her actitudes and he was tired of reading about her “little” problems.
That's problematic! Do you have anything to say to the diaries out there?
Don’t be the kind of diary that doesn’t care about their owner. Read their problems, understand their ways of thinking and acting, help them get better if they’re not OK. You can be saving their lives.
Thanks for coming! I wish you all the best, and I hope you get published one day. The world needs to read the inspiring pages with the story you keep saved by a little key.
I hope so. Goodbye, and, again, thank you for the invitation!
Daniela Curto, 9º E
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