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Socrates believed in the existence of absolute truth. In Socrates’ view, there was a distinction between facts and truth. We merely acknowledge facts; truth is something we discover. While our memories are not always facts to be acknowledged, they always contain truths to be discovered.

Our memories are like songs. Songs are notes and lyrics written on the sheet music, but truth comes from the singer, not the song. Truth is what the singer discovers when brave enough to sing from their heart. We write our personal song in the experiences of our life. We discover the truth in our memories if we are brave enough to seek it in our heart.

My goal in writing Memories at the End of Time was the discovery of truth in my memories. Writing about my memories gives more back to me than any person reading them will ever be able to take away. In the recalling of these memories, I have learned much about who I was, who I am and who I am becoming. In looking back over the arc of time, I realize that I often looked on blindly at life and said that I could see. I am amazed how old I had to become before I bothered to discover the truth of those memories; before I attempted to apply the truths to understanding if my life was worth living.

The book is in the process of being published, but in the meantime the section below gives you some idea of what is inside.

What makes life worth living?

While my memories of those choices may not offer answers, maybe they will be helpful to others in the choices they must make. Hopefully, the Divine Wisdom described by Socrates will guide them to choices that make life worth living.

"Socrates taught that ultimate wisdom comes from knowing oneself. The more a person knows of himself, the greater his or her ability to reason and make the choices that will bring true happiness. Socrates believed that each of us has a divine guide that speaks to us if we listen. His concept of the divine guide suggests two types of reason, human reason, and divine reason. Divine reason interrupts our inherently flawed and mistaken mortal reason. While mortal reason alone leads us to die poorly by tricking us into thinking it can help us master oneself, divine reason will lead to die well by helping us to know oneself.

While not technically a baby boomer, as I was born in 1943 before the post-war baby boom, I share a good deal with that generation. As we move towards our individual end of time, we are a generation that lost its own faith in religion, politics and life. In doing so, we pass on a culture that sees too many values as subjective. It is a culture that gave few answers to the most fundamental questions of existence: What is the point of being alive? What kind of personal journey endows our existence with meaning? Is life worth living? While I cannot offer indisputable answers to these questions, I can offer the answer I give myself: life is a struggle, and we find the answer to these questions in understanding life."