Life story or blogs? (#189, Topic O)

For the last several years, our children wanted us (their parents) to write our life stories (separately) before our mind becomes incapacitated or, worse, before we leave this world. We have, so far, not done so, on account of (1) our lack of time and (2) our not having led an interesting life. Instead, I initiated this blog as a substitute. Now that I have done almost 200 entries, I find this a far better alternative to writing a life story. This is because a life story, given that we have not led an interesting life, tends to be tedious reading, one uneventful year after another in a chronologically sequenced recitation. In contrast, blogging, while invariably haphazard and disorganized, has the advantage of being spontaneous, allowing the coverage of an incidental matter in some detail and with freshness stimulated by something I read or come across immediately before writing. In time, perhaps, these random blogs may be reorganized into a chronological sequence -- with fillings here and there (if I am still around at that time) -- thereby making them, together, a life story. We'll see how all these work out, particularly since I have offered to talk about this as an alternative to a group of retired professionals of Chinese ancestry.