Two Soul Exercises

1. What will be written on your tombstone — not the name and dates and “beloved so-and-so,” but the real unstated epitaph?

Mine: “I still might be a famous writer someday.”

2. What would be in the index of the book of your life? What subject would have surprisingly many entries? What subject would have surprisingly few?

Mine: Too many entries for “Self–pity” and “Self-absorption.” Too few for “External world, involvement in.”