Who will to tell your story when you’re gone? Will you leave it to someone who doesn’t know the truth about your dreams, your thoughts on world events and milestones in your own life?
Not me. I’ll do that myself, thank you very much!
Researching your past ancestors is a lot of fun. I have disappeared for hours into files and documents found online and in various depositories. So, what information will your descendants learn about you besides the basic birth, marriage, and death?
No one who knows how I felt when I removed the training wheels from my bike, or got my first pair of glasses, screamed my way down my only roller coaster ride, moved out on my own, or found out I was pregnant for the first time, or lost my parents.
Best of all, you chose who gets to read your story. Whether you leave it to be discovered after your death, share it, or trash it, that’s your decision.
“But who would be interested in my life?”
If any of my ancestors had left me a document of thoughts and remembrances, I’d be doing cartwheels. We have all lived through interesting times, and one day our everyday lives will be someone else’s “history”.
Memories are a funny thing. Some are there in the forefront, knocking on our brain, demanding to be heard. And others are illusive, hiding in the background and hoping no one will pull them from their safe haven and into the light.
With time, memories can shift. From our adult point of view, we can revisit them, accept them, or let them go once and for all.
Writing your own history has nothing to do with ego.
I wish to leave something for my children and grandchildren, and whoever comes after, and I want it to be in my own words.
Let me show you how to put your own story together and have fun along the way:
- Using the Timeline chart to start, we’ll jot down all the big events we remember, like birth, marriage, children, graduation, jobs, etc. and fill in the gaps as we go.
- We’ll find old photographs that can help trigger more memories and build our histories.
- By reconnecting with family and friends, and asking them to share their recollection of shared events, you’ll be surprised how they differ (no two people experience an event the same).
- We can even return to the scene of the crime as it were, revisit your childhood home, schools, playgrounds, etc.
Will you join me on this grand journey of discovery?
Let’s remember the past and share it with the future.
Go get your copy of the Timeline and let’s begin! (Examples and blank copies for your to use are at the bottom of the Media Page)