When I first started writing my book it wasn’t to make any money or to get famous or anything, no it was because I wanted to get all my bad experiences out there. Get it off my chest if you like.
I suppose I never intended to publish this book. It was going to be more of a family thing, a sort of memoir of what I’d done in my life which would serve as lasting legacy for them to read and at the same time a way of explaining all the things I did and why.
Suffering from lack of self esteem and confidence I found it painfully difficult to cope with life and to interact with people. This was to lead to many encounters which were farcical and indeed sometimes dangerous.
Born into an age of “deference” it never crossed my mind that I should rebel in any way. I was scared to say anything against authority and that included my Father. What he said usually got carried out. I did as I was told.
Looking back, it now seems amazing that I could just do as instructed without question whether or not it was good for me. But this is how it was.
My new autobiography sets out just what happened to me, from growing up in a strict military family and all that this entails to growing up and leaving home and finally how I settled down doing what I should have in the first place.
I found my lack of self esteem and lack of confidence so debilitating that in many situations I would try to escape from responsibility by “Running For Home” which is the title of my new autobiography.
I could not settle at anything, being artistically minded this just did not fit in with much of what I did such as join the Merchant Navy and later the Royal Navy. These episodes were full of adventure and incident fraught with danger which I could barely cope with and took me to places I could never have conceived of previously. Ironically, I now do not regret any of it and can look back on all these years with a feeling of achievement at enduring all that I did and rather than considering it all a failure, I now feel a sense of pride at my all my experiences which I now share with you.
In writing my new autobiography, I felt that it was a healing process and very therapeutic to the extent that it has changed my life forever.
If you have ever felt unworthy, not confident or worthless then perhaps this account of my life and all its adventures, sad time and humorous times might just help you to come to terms with your own life. It might even encourage you to finally get round to writing about yourself; you never know where it might lead.
If you would like a free review of Running For Home then you are very welcome. Thankyou for looking at Top Autobiographies.
