How does a story of life unfold? Do we write it down in sequence or just as a series of musings. Generally when people tell their stories they'll jump around, like time travelers. Granted we are telling a history but in reality life is more like a novel. One person's fact is anothers fiction.
Personally I think I like the musings idea, perhaps with a narrator. That's the way my mind works. Thoughts pop in, I discuss them with the little person living in my brain and they evolve into coherent stories or resolutions or whatever. Also, at this age what do I really remember with blinding accuracy. I definitely don't remember when things happen and I barely remember sequence. I'm lucky I remember what happened or if what happened really did happen. So is a life story more like a docudrama than accurate history? More of 'well it sorta happened this way,' than 'this is the way it was'?
I was born and one day I will die. That is the only thing I can say with absolute certainty. That and I can only give a date to one of those events. My life is a Holmesian (Sherlock) journey through what happened in-between the aforementioned events. Well, maybe not quite that. Yet a story is still a story true or false. It's just dictation coming from my psyche.
I don't know if I want my son to read about my life in my lifetime. My story gets ugly at times, it's tumultuous. I don't want his view of me to change due to something written on paper that I can't explain. I've had some extreme experiences that are better left buried, even after I am. So if this is the case why write this at all? It seems like just a wee bit of self-aggrandizement for no particular purpose. Especially if I leave out the juicy bits. A life is really only a life. A short time on Earth and poof!
And when you're done what do you do? There will never be a final chapter. Plus sometimes the most interesting things happen after the lights go down. Or maybe it's just the taste it leaves in your mouth when you're done. What do I know. Does it even make sense.
My life story so far: Birth, Love, Marriage, Childbirth, More Love and a sprinkling of good and bad in-between each event. That's pretty much it.
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