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=== What Has Motivated You to Write This Personal History? === | === What Has Motivated You to Write This Personal History? === | ||
''History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'' (Sir Winston Churchill)<br><br>Here is a good place to tell your reader why you are writing this personal history. Was it because your family or friends wanted you too? Or did you decide to do it on your own? If so, why? What may have motivated you to begin this project can be of help to others who maybe thinking of doing the same thing themselves. <br> | ''History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'' (Sir Winston Churchill) | ||
<br><br><i>Here is a good place to tell your reader why you are writing this personal history.</i> Was it because your family or friends wanted you too? Or did you decide to do it on your own? If so, why? What may have motivated you to begin this project can be of help to others who maybe thinking of doing the same thing themselves. <br> | |||
*How old are you at present? | *How old are you at present? | ||
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=== Ages 30 - 40 === | === Ages 30 - 40 === | ||
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.''(Groucho Marx) <br><br>Life may be settling down to routine by now and you are playing the game of getting ahead in life. Here you can also describe your efforts to teach your children and watch them grow up. For many, thirty marks the end of youth and the real beginning of adulthood.'' | "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.''(Groucho Marx) <br><br>Life may be settling down to routine by now and you are playing the game of getting ahead in life. Here you can also describe your efforts to teach your children and watch them grow up. For many, thirty marks the end of youth and the real beginning of adulthood.'' | ||
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===Ages 40 - 50 === | === Ages 40 - 50 === | ||
"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.''(Oliver Wendell Holmes)'' <br>Your probably thinking about how your life as been up to this point. Here you can tell about your successes in your occupation and/or family. | "A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.''(Oliver Wendell Holmes)'' <br>Your probably thinking about how your life as been up to this point. Here you can tell about your successes in your occupation and/or family. | ||
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=== Ages 50 -65 === | === Ages 50 -65 === | ||
''I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.'' (Agatha Christie) <br><br>Some go through “mid life crisis” at about this time. You may wonder if you should have taken a different course. You may feel deeply about some failures you have endured. Here is the place to tell about that. | ''I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.'' (Agatha Christie) <br><br>Some go through “mid life crisis” at about this time. You may wonder if you should have taken a different course. You may feel deeply about some failures you have endured. Here is the place to tell about that. | ||
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=== Retirement === | === Retirement === | ||
''It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.'' (Scott Elledge) <br><br>Some look forward to this time in their life. They think they can now take it easy and let the world worry about all the things it likes to worry about. But many find life even busier. | ''It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.'' (Scott Elledge) <br><br>Some look forward to this time in their life. They think they can now take it easy and let the world worry about all the things it likes to worry about. But many find life even busier. | ||
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=== Summing Up === | === Summing Up === | ||
''We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.'' (Marcel Proust) | ''We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.'' (Marcel Proust) | ||