You are not your past.
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.
Before you measure the years, you measure the days.
It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.