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How Will the World Remember Your Life?
Writing your own eulogy, or a letter to yourself each year can help clarify your creative goals
One of my high school classmates passed away recently. We weren’t friends but I was funny, he was funny, and we got along well enough in school. We golfed once, after high school, with a couple of other friends. He drank a beer a hole, which was not something I could keep up with.
The only time I impressed him was one evening when I drank several beers without apparent effect. I don’t know how I did it but I definitely drank the beers. That was the sort of thing he cared about back then.
As our interests and lives diverged, we lost contact. Hit obituary popped up in my Facebook feed, and that’s that. He was survived by a couple of kids.
Got me thinking about my own mortality, especially having survived my run-in with cancer this past summer. (Yes, I’m making his death about me.)
Memento Mori
We are all going to die. There is no easy way to say it, but it’s true. Luckily, most of us have an ability to not worry about it, to go about our day to day as if everything is fine.
I depend on it for how I plan my writing: I plan my creative projects as if I’m going to…
