Memoir

Why do people write memoirs?What power is there in telling our own stories?

I beleive that people write their own memoirs for their benifit and for other's benifit. One of the reasons why people write memoirs for their own benefit is to able to vent about whatever they were writing about and be able to work of some steam. Another reason why people write memoirs is so that they can remember what they have done in their life so that they can think back and laugh on funny experiences. A third reason why I think that people write about memoirs is so that they can put their experiences into perpective and think through their actions.
I think that people also write memoirs for the benefit of others. One of the ways that it would benefit others is that others could learn from their mistakes so that they would not make the same wrong choices. Or it could have the opposite effect, for example if in a memoir there was a very exciting event one might want to do it in their life as well. Abnother way that writing a memoir could benefit others is that others can lear about the lives of the one who is writing for the memoir just to know some things about them. A last reason why others would benifit from this is that they would be more able to glance into the perspective of the person who wrote the memoir or the time period or circumstance under which they write such a memoir. I beleive that a person who write a memoir to benifit themselves and others in these ways.