Daily Prompt – March 4, 2026

First of all, I would never write my autobiography. I don’t believe I’m special enough or important enough to have one. I also acknowledge that if someone chose to write a biography about me, I’d be annoyed by what they wrote and that I had no control over it. I am living contradiction like that. That my friends is the true story of my life.

As for the opening sentence of a story I’d never write? It’s hard because my brain is defaulting to all sorts of silly tropes and cliche lines. It was a dark and stormy night… Once upon a time… My life began the day… You all get the idea. I don’t know that there is a good opening line to the story of my life.

I think if I ever truly wanted to write my autobiography it would be written the same way I live my life. It would be one long stream of consciousness writing that wound the story of my life around and around like a labyrinth as I took us on the journey however my brain felt like telling it that day. No chronology, no rhyme or reason, just pure instinct and intuition. I think that is the best way I could honor my life.

With that in mind, the opening sentence would probably be something along the line of “So, I decided to write the story of my life, let’s see where this takes us.”