SELLING YOUR LIFE

SELLING YOUR LIFE

If you had to sell your life story as a best selling book

could you write your history through
     --places you called home
     --schools that educated you
     --the cars you owned
     --every girl you ever kissed
     --every job you ever worked, and
     --any good deed you did?

But if you did, who would want to read about you?

Instead, could you write about?

--landlords that had you evicted

--schools that expelled you

--cars you crashed

--every girl that ever dumped you

--the bosses that fired you, and

--your time in prison?

Good guys and sucess

Bad guys and failure

Dull or fascinating?

Who would sell more books?

Villains or heroes

Good is never as glamorous as evil

I always read villains first.



Reviews

[Michael G. Smith]

Both have shaped history; Churchill and Hitler, Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar. I love reading biographies of historical characters.

[Michael G. Smith]

And poetry by Washington authors.

[Glen]

rutherford, a wonderful little poem and lots to think about there....perhaps a mix of both for an autobiography...perhaps it'd be more about writing it for our own clarity rather than who might read it?

[Pryde Foltz]

An interesting thought.
But my favourite kind of read
above all, is a villain redeemed.

[rutherford]

Pryde,
Thanks for adding this new dimension.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

I will have to agree with you...on the last line...even though in the end the good one wins the day...In the world we live in people would want to read the bad stuff...just the way the minds of the world works...with reading...

[rutherford]

Glen, was my reaction to the confessional best sellers. Thanks for the review.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Good to know...thanks for sharing...this one...