If you decided to write..

Ah Mack, after researching and documenting our family history going back a few hundred years 20+ years ago I started doing the same for for my now 80 years on this planet. Like yourself it is not published and intended for future familys 'education' and 'entertainment' however unlike yourself I have not written that final chapter for have been 'gone' once and returned better than expected I still have no idea what is to come as yet.
I will say that as I slowly move into my dotage I am amassed by the sudden and unexpected memories from the far distant past that surface which I try and insert into the written ramblings for future readers. The difficulty is trying to remember what I just remembered long enough to get it to text and wondering how close to the actual truth it comes, mind you upon adding to to the file only to find that I have saved the same story before and finding that it matches gives me a little faith that I have not totally 'lost it' just yet!
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Only 2 books here, both with highly unimaginative titles.

They have not been printed - they are just online PDF files. The first is about the life of my wife and I, and is entitled "This Is Our Life." It ended at the time of her death.

Then I started a second book, about my final years, which is ongoing. It's entitled "This Is My Life." It already has a final ending chapter, making it appear to be completed. But at the end of each month, I update it by inserting a new chapter before the closing chapter, which is about life's lessons, favorite quotes, and other personal thoughts.

There are no plans to publish these. The public would have no interest. They are just life summaries that my family may care to read someday. :D They have access to my files and know these books are there - but if they never read them, I won't know or care.
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I find in writing it eases my mind, gets things off my chest and allows me to even sometimes see my flawed thinking. I find my memory
of the how's and why's don't always match up to others in how they saw things. It helps me to understand things about them, especially
my sons and how they became who they are. Doesn't mean I am right or wrong, just means they weren't privy to underlying things.
Like you, I don't know if they will read it but it's here.
 
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