The Curious Story of... you.

Some people travel to exotic locations. Some people dance and sing for kings, queens, princes, and princesses. Some people make it to Carnegie Hall, some win national championships. Some have fantastic and extraordinary journies through life. Some see their own lives as simple, ordinary, even boring. Every persons life is unique. Every persons story is unique, and even curious. The curious case of each of our lives are stories worth sharing with those we love; heck, even with anyone who will listen.

It is important that we share the stories of our lives because this is how the memories of who we are live on long after our inevitable departure from this rock we call Earth. Every time you share, or hear, a story of great-grandpa's life, or your late Aunt Millie, that person comes alive again in your mind and heart. Memories and stories are the only way that humans come close to reaching immortality.

Knowing your story, and being able to tell it, helps you understand yourself better. It allows you the opprotunity to understand the events and people that shape who you are. It helps you better understand why you profess what you do. The old adage is true, you can't really know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

The movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" got me thinking about my story. One could certainly call my story 'curious'. Starting my life, the doctors told my parents they should let me die because I couldn't live long on my own. Even if I did I'd be paralysed and be severly brain damaged. Well, here I am 37 years later. I can walk, think, I am even working on my Masters Degree.

What is you're 'curious' story?