Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Mitch AlbomA memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
Mitch AlbomThe second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of how important celebrity has become. We sing to get famous; expose our worst secrets to get famous; lose weight, eat bugs, even commit murder to get famous. Our young people post their deepest thoughts on public web sites. They run cameras from their bedrooms. It’s as if we are screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet the notoriety barely lasts. Names quickly blur and in time are forgotten.
Mitch Albom