How we think about our lives
Conversation is not a linear thing, and neither is memory.
People don't talk in complete sentences. Pay attention to a conversation, whether it's one you're having or one nearby, and you'll notice this. People stop and start other sentences midway through, jump from one thought to another, and back again, all over the place. We all do it.
One thought about a time and place in your life takes you through a labyrinth of other thoughts and memories. There is also no sense of space and time in this process. How you think about a memory from fifty years ago is the same as one from last week.
When you consider your life journey, it doesn't unfold in neat, linear blocks, one on top of the other, forming a straight structure. Your memory and your thoughts about your life are nonlinear, bouncing around, heading down side streets off the main road, and on the merry-go-round.
If you want to write your life story from these memories of your life, this doesn’t come out of you as a complete book, in chapters, paragraphs, or even full sentences. Life story writing requires work, commitment, organization, focus, and time.
However, once all of this content is accessed and written down, it can be organized into an autobiography or memoir about your life. The benefits of life writing come in two parts: life review, and writing about your life. Once you get it all down on the page, or the screen, you can make sense of seemingly unrelated thoughts and memories. Everything is related somehow, in some way. Like water, it's all interconnected. You just have to find the patterns and themes that make up the fabric of your life, and weave these together into a tapestry.
That tapestry is your legacy, one that you can enjoy and leave behind for your kids, grandkids, and countless generations to learn about you through a life story book.
This is what Senior Legacy Books does to create private autobiographies, memoirs, and tribute books that celebrate the memory of deceased loved ones. I delve into those core memories that form the fenceposts of life's journey, and I build and expand upon them through interviews to craft life legacy books.
Each chapter of your life requires a new version of you, represented by a chapter in your life story book. When you read about your life as a book written in your voice, you can relive parts, gain a better understanding of painful episodes, heal, laugh, and smile at the person you've been throughout the only life you'll ever know.
Understand where you are in life by understanding where you’ve been.
