In Search of the Meaning of Life (An Autobiography): Book One - The Early Years (The Start of a Dream)

by Mark D Jones

Overview

As I sit here to begin telling the story of my life that I call In Search of the Meaning of Life (An Autobiography), I aim to trace this singular thread of searching that has remained constant in my life of adventure. My life has been a mosaic of many independent events that on face value appear to have nothing in common, that is, when viewed from the outside. One must always remember to avoid drawing conclusions from appearances alone. When I view the events of my life from the inside, there is a great consistency and commitment to this search for meaning in my life. It is no small miracle that I have survived my adventures to this day to be able to tell my story, and it is by the grace of God alone that I've reached this point in my life to share my hopes, dreams, journeys and adventures with you.My journeys and adventures officially started the day I intentionally stepped off the well-worn path of life and onto the path less-traveled. It was a deliberate and calculated decision and my life has never been the same since. It has not been an easy life, for once the comfort of the path well-traveled is left behind, there are few signposts to follow and no maps to guide you. Uncharted territory as they say and not without its pitfalls, danger and misfortunes. I often wondered if this path would ever lead me back to the safety and comfort of the familiar again. In some ways it has and in other ways it hasn't, but The Great Adventure I began in 1976 has never really ended for me over all these many years. I will be traveling this path less-traveled in my continuing search for the meaning of my life right up to the very end.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781983514531
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/13/2018
Series:	In Search of the Meaning of Life (an Autobiography) , #1
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

I began writing my autobiography by hand as my New Year's resolution in the early days of January 1994, because I began to see the events of my life not as stand-alone events, but as a singular journey with an overall context and purpose that had eluded me up until that point in time. I finally began to see all the twists, turns, journeys and adventures of my life following a circuitous pathway that I had traveled my entire life. It was this path and the sum total of my experiences - both good and bad - that had led me to the point in my life that I began to put pencil to paper and write my story.