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Not that I am anyone famous or powerful, but I do often think about my legacy.

How will I be remembered? How can I leave a record of my life journey, of its many interesting moments? How can I share at least a fraction of the ideas, thoughts and emotions that my brilliant brain generates without much of a rest? There is no sarcasm in my use of the word “brilliant”. Your brain is brilliant too. There is a beautiful alien living in our heads. Dammit, now that I came up with this metaphor, I’m thinking of the movie Venom, of a fucking ugly all-powerful funny monster that lives in us.

Well, there is one way to address “legacy”. Write a book. A memoir. I started writing actually, a few years ago (here is Chapter 1!). But a memoir at a young age? Too pretentious. Some manage it but it’s not easy. Later maybe. Besides, there is a problem of “too many thoughts in my head”. It’s a song by Weezer. I couldn’t possibly fit everything into a narrow genre of a memoir. The developmental editor would shoot himself or herself trying to connect the dots. Too many fucking dots.

So here I am, dropping a myriad of stories, just for a few weeks so far, but I see a path. A path to a myriad of stories over the coming years and decades.