DTH-XII-0010
“I am documenting my life so my family has something to hold onto.”
Recording your life — your values, your story, the things you learned — is not vanity. It is generosity. Future family members will want to know who you were, not just that you existed. The specifics are what make it real: not "I worked hard" but the particular things you built and why.
Your Practice
Set aside 30 minutes this week to write one story from your life — a specific moment, not a summary. A decision you made and why. A time you were afraid and what you did. A person who shaped you. Write it as plainly as you can. That is one piece of your legacy, and it exists now because you wrote it.
The Architects
“If you wou'd not be forgotten / As soon as you are dead and rotten, / Either write things worth reading, / Or do things worth the writing.”
— Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738 (verse); confirmed by Quote Investigator