Memoir Craze

      

     What is with everyone writing memoirs these days? I don’t get it; does everyone really have a story to tell? Well the simple answer to that question is no. Even if you are a fantastic writer that doesn’t mean you should write a memoir.  More than likely you are not as interesting as you think you are, sorry to break it you. So please save us your life story, we are not interested. Everyone is getting in on the craze lately, from Hollywood’s elite Paris Hilton to the Nation Football League’s Tim Tebow. I find that it is worth noting that neither of these people is over the age of 30. Now let’s get real. I mean how much can a person do in their life before they are even half way through it and, how much of that stuff is actually worth hearing about.  I mean come on! Paris Hilton of all people. Really? What does she possibly have to write or rather have written for her because we all know she didn’t write her memoir herself? That is another thing that grinds my gears, it’s a memoir, it is your story (no matter how boring it is) so you should at least write it. It is not a biography (a book about you written by another). I think that if you want to tell your so-called story so bad, you should have to actually write it.    

      I can see if you have been through a particular traumatic event or have accomplished something great in your life and, you want to tell people about it but, most likely you haven’t. So for God’s sake stop writing memoirs!  Do you really think that you are that great are you really that narcissistic?  Although, I suppose that you have to be a little bit of a narcissist to write a memoir in the first place. After all it is a book about one’s self but, I digress. Memoirs should be left to those that actually have a story to tell, an interesting one at that.  I’ll admit it, my life isn’t that interesting. Why can’t more people be so modest?  I am not saying that there are not good memoirs out there worth reading, I’m sure there is a ton.  Some people just need to realize that there story isn’t one of them.