Relish in and Hold on to the Fond Memories You Have with your Loved Ones as Long as you can because you never know when something will happen that will start stealing and stripping your treasured and most cherished memories away.
If you have a Fond Story, then take a few moments and write that Fond Story down so that it can never be forgotten or lost. Write down your Funny Stories or Real-World Lessons for your Future Generations to have something tangible to hold on to. There is a reason Man stopped telling stories ONLY and developed WRITING and began to ALSO WRITE their STORIES down.
This one is just criminal. I have personally known a handful of people who have had “secret recipes” that they never wrote down and never passed on to anyone. For some reason, they were waiting on something. Waiting on what? They all have passed on and instead of being able to make their recipe’s and enjoy them and sit and talk about and remember that person and how much better theirs always was and tell our favorite stories about that person, that person is instead occasionally mentioned. Often, in the context of “remember the blank that so-and-so used to make? I wished they’d written that down.”
If you have a “secret recipe” or a “family recipe,” then take a box of index cards, or get one of those blank books, and just start writing down the recipes and keeping that book with all your other recipe books. No one says that you have to Share that book or those recipes with anyone. However, when you have passed on, it would be nice to have many people making your recipes and remembering you and talking about fond memories of you, than having you occasionally mentioned, and then with a twinge of frustration and anger because you were too stupid and stubborn to share something beautiful with the world, to share your creative genius and artwork with your close friends and family so that a little more of you lives on with them. Or let one of your children or relatives come and visit you from time and time and teach them the recipes and let them write them down if you always just make them and don’t have an actual recipe – that way SOMEONE will know how to make them!
Share your beauty and your legacy with your loved ones left behind and stop being selfish!
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