John had always wanted to write a book
He thought about romantic fiction
There were too many of those around
Same for all those juicy crime thrillers
After so many false starts
He decided to tell his own life story
Not just a conventional autobiography
It had to have some meaningful life lesson
He reflected back on his own childhood
How hard it had been at school
He was not a particularly gifted scholar or athlete
Bullying haunted him almost daily
Somehow he managed to scrape into college
He he never really fitted in
He did not want to join the constant party crowd
The dedicated academics who never left the library were too boring
Dating was a challenge for him
He was intimidated by all the pretty girls
He dated the same plain Jane throughout college
They both knew it was a relationship of convenience
They did however get married soon after they started work
John worked hard and was a successful accountant
Then the kids started to arrive
The years seemed to fly by in a constant cycle of work and parenting
When his children eventually left home
Jane declared she was leaving him
She had finally found true love elsewhere
John was now alone and at a crossroads
John had reached the final chapter of his book
Describing how shrewd investments allowed him to retire early and become a writer
His biggest regret was wasting the first fifty years of his life
So he decided to travel and learn new things for the next fifty years
His publisher rejected the book because the first fifty years were so boring
John deleted all those chapters and expanded on the rest
His life message was do not wait forever because the end arrives fast
His book was a best seller
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