If You Don't Write Your Autobiography - Nobody Will!

By: Robert Brady

In 2006, my family and I traveled Philadelphia to visit the birthplace of the Constitution. Naturally, the visit inspired us. We witnessed the long conveyor belts of newly minted coins at the U.S. Mint; we saw the Liberty Bell's crack (which, incidentally, was caused when trying to fix a larger crack); and we walked the footsteps of the Founding Fathers at Independence Square.

To me, the most inspiring place was a little museum called the Independence Living History Center. The archaeologists there sift through artifacts gathered from sites nearby. The archaeologists tried to decipher what the artifacts told them about the lives of early Americans.

I wondered what the archaeologists were doing. A caretaker told me that history books aren't written about everyday people. There written about the Benjamin Franklins and the Thomas Jeffersons of the World. We have to put the rest of the stories together with whatever clues we can find.

The archaeologists reconstructed everyday-people's lives from trash!

Do you know where a lot of these artifacts were found? They were found in the colonists' version of the trash. I don't know about you, but I'm sure that I don't want my history to be reconstructed from trash.

The facts...

Chances are slim that anyone will write a book about me. I don't want anyone writing my history but me. I especially don't want a historian reconstructing my history from the items he finds in my trash!

Tell Your Story

Every life has a story. Your life is a worthwhile story. Preserve it. Pass it on.

Writing your autobiography is daunting. It's especially tough to do it on your own.

Move Forward

Just start writing.

Ideas will come to you.

Tell your own story! Don't leave it to someone else.