In the ex-USSR republics people laugh at Western practices of
having diaries. They say can’t they remember all they need? Yes, they can but
it is better to write it down anyway. If you remember something there is a
possibility to forget it. That is why having a diary is wise (and even wiser is
having a set of notebooks, a notebook per every mainline of your activity). I
have my personal set of the notebooks and can say it works! Well, ex-USSR
diaries and notebook having pessimism is nothing but a sort of prejudice.
