I WROTE THE STORY OF MY LIFE

I wrote the story of my life but never once did I stop to read it

Words, plots, characters gushed out of me, yet never once did I take the time to see

If the words were apt, if the plot had inner consistency, if the characters were realistic and likeable

Not once did I peruse the footnotes and attempt to research further the story I was writing

Not once did I check for for the minor spelling and grammar errors nor contemplated whether indeed the whole construction of my work-in-progress was fundamentally flawed from the very first word on the very first page

Never once did I pay heed to the better advice of my elders, to keep a constant tone to my novel, to not portray realism as fantasy, to not turn tragedy into comedy

But recklessly I mixed passages of horror with passages of humour, blended magic realism with surrealism and clumsily juxtaposed soaring poetry with indifferent pedestrianism

Not once did I look back to see if my story made any sense, leaving it instead to others to try and make sense of the story of my life

And so preoccupied was I with the writing of this book that I forgot all about existence and my life instead became this book itself

And now as I come to the final page, I think to myself


Is there still time enough to begin the book anew?