Now is the time to write your stories.
Do you really think another branch of your life later on will present more opportunity?
If you do not record what you have witnessed, what you have seen and heard, the multifarious panoramas of your existence, who will?
First, simply accept that your memories and your present life have stories worth recording and remembering. Do not argue with yourself. Do not assert that you have done nothing, accomplished little, been nowhere. Stop it. You have experiences no one can reproduce.
Begin anywhere. You do not have to begin at the beginning.
Remember one thing: one voice, moment, image, noise, crash of music, vast city, the Virus, one stranger, one meeting, a dog, a storm, a sea, a house.
Write one sentence. What comes next?
No?
Then begin with who, what, where, when.
Revise later. Do not worry about mistakes. Do not worry about perfection. Just unpack what you remember. Write for yourself. Decide later if you will show it to another. All that matters is the writing.
Clarity of expression matters more than anything — and truth. That means bringing your memory and integrity together to try your best to get it right.
Once you start to write, the discoveries will come in thick bunches. The more you write, the more you will see, the more you will remember, the more you will come to know.
Look, many of us are living closer to the blade than ever before in our lives. Nothing is guaranteed. Write as if your life has been worth the time, that it is worth the time. It has been. It is.
Write.
