Famous lives get biographies. The rest of us get nothing. But a life that nobody wrote down was not a small life, and a story nobody has heard is not a story not worth hearing.
Every nobody deserves a way to tell their own life, and to be seen by others.
Write the ending you want to deserve.
Travel to the last line of your life and write the one line you hope it will say. That is your epitaph. It stands at the front of your book to remind you what you hope your life will one day become.
Live the story that makes it true.
Beneath your epitaph, write your story while you live it: the moments that made you, three to start, more whenever life adds more. Every chapter is a step toward the line you wrote.
Be heard. Be known.
Your book stands among everyone else’s. Strangers open it, read how far you have come, and mark what stayed with them. Signed or anonymous, your choice. No sign-up to read or to write.
Epitaphs from people like you. Open one to read the story behind it.
Sample epitaphs. Placeholders until the first real stories are written.
“She was brave enough to start again.”
“He loved one woman for 43 years and never said it enough.”
“I spent too long becoming someone I didn't want to be.”
“A father who gave his kids a childhood full of questions.”
“She left every place a little kinder than she found it.”
“Seventeen years at a job he never liked. Then he stopped.”
“She forgave her mother. It took forty years.”
“Still working on this one.”
What would yours say?
Write your own story