The best part is that there are many people who want to know your story. We are so focused on our daily routines we often don’t realize how stopping to leave a little trail of breadcrumbs behind could help you be remembered forever. I discovered this when I read just two sentences from my Great-Grandmother’s brief history. She mentioned the ruins of a castle where she played as a child growing up in Sweden. I felt I had to go there to know her and connect somehow to this person I never met. So I did. But for those two brief sentences, I would not have had any way to relate with her. Now in a small way I know someone who died before I was even born.
I have since been determined to find ways to encourage people to write their histories. It sounds hard, but with a little help you could do it and create something that will be treasured by your family more than anything else you could give them.
This site will provide you with ideas, templates, memory joggers, and formats that you can use to motivate your work. Now I say work, but I use that word with the most positive connotations.
My own definition would be: work\wərk\ vb 1: to bring to pass, to create, to compose, to fashion, to draw out, form or bring to a form by a gradual process of repeated or continued effort. 2: to stick with it until the product is full and ample. 3: to create a simple but highly valued artifact that will endure through the ages.
I would love to hear your story.
