"Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it."
When you tell the same story to different people, what do you habitually add or leave out? What does that habit say about you?
Do We Remember How We Lived, or Live How We Remember?
Gabriel García Márquez grew up in the small Colombian town of Aracataca, listening to his grandparents' stories. Through 'magical realism', where reality and fantasy blend naturally, he portrayed the memory of Latin America and won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
During the year and a half he spent writing One Hundred Years of Solitude, he earned almost nothing, and his wife Mercedes kept the family going by pawning household goods. When mailing the finished manuscript, they could only afford postage for half of it—and he liked to tell how he accidentally sent the second half first.