In the book A Million Miles In A Thousand Years, Donald Miller meets Bob, who is an American lawyer who also is a consul for Uganda (there's a story to that!). Bob, it seems, has written 500+ pages of memories of his life.
"The saddest thing about life is you don't remember...not even a tiny percentage" of it. Bob says he "captures memories, because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen..."
So, besides what that implies ( or whatever you "infer" from that), I was inspired to see what value might be derived from writing the story of my life (though I'm sure it wouldn't be a hot seller, despite it seeming certainly significant to me.)
If you care to do it, you might also experience:
The perspective of what really was small stuff in life even though it seemed a big deal at the time.
Some lessons of life.
The wonder of the richness of the life of a human.
A lot of laughs
Maybe some sweet tears from being so touched and moved
How you might want to live going forward
And more...
You might wish to read this piece on the website: Why To Write The "Story" Of Your Life - Putting Life And All Its Pieces Into Reality and Perspective.
May it enrich your life,
Keith G.
I've been busy for the last few months writing an overview book that is also an "internet" book, where each chapter links into an implementation page which in turn has links into what to do and what to read to master a particular area - and go as deep as you wish. The working title is "Implementing Happiness" - a rather modest goal for a book. The idea is to "tie it all together" in practical terms with no woo-woo, such that you have a true perspective of how things actually work - and in the process dropping lots of beliefs that do not serve you and replacing them with doing and thinking what actually makes you happy. I hope that it can create huge value for those who read it and do "the work".
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