I am writing my biography covering quite a bit of my life and then I noticed that the middle bit was missing, meeting my wife (ex) having the children and all of that good stuff. I worked on the beginning and the end and missed the middle entirely so I am working my way through that.
It's actually interesting (only I would say that) as it is of course quite personal and it is, even for me, an emotional roller coaster because now, writing and thinking about it, the errors and the wrong turns, the choices and the consequences are plain to see I think. I don't suppose that hindsight, the exacting science that it is, might have changed any of it because, here we are and there can be no other outcome but it is interesting in a way to look back.
I wasn't expecting the strong emotions that are going with it, or perhaps I should have as I missed out this documenting the 30 to 40 years part. It's quite interesting to look back though and when I saw that I'd written 50,500 words without the middle bit I was a bit surprised.
So the middle journey part is going to be unfolding over the next few weeks and it will be emotional as there are special moments in there and of course good and bad memories. I re-read the eulogy I gave for my father at his funeral, now 13 years ago next month. If I were to be half the man he was, I'd be pleased.
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