Question

Ideas for writing a memoir?

Answer 1

@ShadowLegendX

Answer 2

Is there a particular subject it has to be about? Like the events themselves...

Answer 3

Not really, just about a specific memory that has a vivid impact. Something special, maybe.

Answer 4

So think of a memory, that you still remember today that really impacted your life, or you remember for specific reason, like it has a special meaning to you

Answer 5

That's where I'm having a problem.
I don't really remember anything too significant.

Answer 6

Unless perhaps taking into consideration the lovely days of Middle School, getting bullied, becoming suicidal, attempting suicide, and then taking that experience to help others who are in that situation.

Answer 7

I don't really know if that counts as a memoir, though.

Answer 8

I gtg but just think, there is always some moment in your life that is precious in some way, you just have to have the courage to share it

Answer 9

Hmm.. I'll try to think.
Thanks! (:

Answer 10

School has never been a happy setting for me, but it was the sixth grade that had the biggest impact on me. It was a somber year. I was always treated by my classmates as if I were a freak or an alien, someone to avoid. I had only one friend, though she was only a friend to me some days, for the other days she was not. I remember some of the things my classmates would say, calling me offensive names, such as "ugly" and "loser," and some of them had even told me to "jump off a cliff." The worst part was that I actually had started to believe that the words they were saying was true. I really believed that I was an ugly loser, and that everyone would be happier if I was dead. It had gotten to the point at which I started to contemplate suicide. During classes, I would write notes to myself, such as "Live or Die?" I recall even asking some of my classmates if they thought I should die, and that one of them had responded by an outburst of laughter, then said "go die behind a bush!"

The worst memory of that year was a certain day in particular. It happened between classes, a small time allowed for a "bathroom break." I was ganged up by a group of the more "popular" kids, who proceeded to push me into my locker (I could fit inside due to how small I was), then they called me names such as "owletgot," "gay," "stupid," "loser," etc. I had already reached my breaking point by then, and one by one, the tears fell. I remember feeling powerless, worthless, inferior, and ready to die. It got worse, though. I had went into the bathroom to go wipe my tears and try to calm myself, when my "friend" entered the bathroom. She got aggressive, pushed me into a corner, and started to say things like "you wanna go, punk?" "come on, try me!" "I'm gonna kill you you gay (censor) owletgot!" At that point, I was already extremely suicidal, and waiting to die, so I told her to "go ahead." She put her hands around my throat and squeezed until I couldn't breathe. As I struggled to breathe, I started to fear death and I tried to push her away, but I didn't have the strength. She would have killed me then and there, but a girl who lived a few houses down the street from me entered the restroom and pushed her off of me.

It is the memories of days like these that motivates me to help others who get bullied. To talk with them and show them that things will get better. It's my desire to help others who have felt the way I did then that motivates me to study the field of Psychology, so that I can have a full-time career that will enable me to help others who experience the kinds of things that I did, or worse. I want to be able to show them how to find their light within the dark.

Answer 11

Does this work as a draft?
Or is this not really considered as a memoir?
Any suggestions?

@Miracrown @ChantySquirrel1129**

Answer 12

Let me read :)

Answer 13

@rvc, since you wanted to read it. :p

Answer 14

This is beautiful. I am sorry for what you had to go through. No one deserves this kind of life. I wish I was there at the time to help you out. Just remember that sharp is your memory, sweet is your name, deep in my heart you'll always remain. Earth wants water, flower wants dew, I want nothing but a smile from you. :) ♥

Answer 15

Awe, that is so sweet! Thank you! ♥
(:

Answer 16

I'm with you always
anytime pm me :)
i would be glad to help u

Answer 17

It makes me sooo mad from reading it. Getting bullied like that? Screw them over, say they need to go stab themselves a million times, or they need to go bury themselves alive. Ugh, PEOPLE THESE DAYS! Makes me wanna go hurt them. T^T

Answer 18

Mira, those people who bullied her like that deserve a life like that. That is where you were wrong.

Answer 19

I didn't even read the part where you "freind" chked you! Her stupid *CENSORED* litle *CENSORED* is mine! Where her little *CENSORED*?! I was cut her *CENSORED* throat! I wil bury her and her *CENSORED* alive. e.e Makes me mad -.- *CENSORED* all of them. Seriously, *CENSORED* all of them. T^T

Answer 20

Such sorrow...
What they reap, they shall sow