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The Life-Changing Magic of Writing Your Memoir
3 unbelievable transformations that take place when you tell your life story
“It doesn’t have an ending,” I said, staring at the ceiling fan.
“What do you mean,” she asked.
“My book…it doesn’t have an ending. I spent a year writing this fucking memoir just to find out it doesn’t have an ending.”
“Well, what kind of ending do you want?”
You Become the Author of Your Own Life Story
When you finish writing your life story, something amazing happens. You didn’t plan it. You weren’t trying to do it. You didn’t see it coming. But one day it will. You’ll find yourself in a precarious position. An exciting position. Perhaps, the most exciting position.
You are standing in the present. You are standing at the terminus of the past. And that past, the one you’ve written down is, by definition, the most meaningful set of events in the world to you. They happened to you. They made you. This is your story. You’ll never go to a movie or read a book that’s more significant than your…
