Mémoire

Ahh...memories! The one aspect of life that everyone has in common. Whether bitter or sweet, everyone has memories. It is something you can't fight nor deny. No matter how young or old someone is, they have a memory. Especially when older, memories become harder and harder to remember. In order to savor your life for everything it is or once was worth, it is key to keep your identity through memories. A common way of remembering and keeping your memories is through writing a memoir.
Memoirs have became popular by people who often claim themselves as celebrities and believe it is their duty on earth to keep a memoir of themselves in order to become eternal. They have often been kept by politicians and military leaders. In the eighteenth century, "scandalous memoirs" were kept by prostitutes or libertines. Many memoirs have helped us through history to expose and teach people of eye witness accounts of moments in history , such as memoirs from members of the holocaust.
The term memoir has begun to replace autobiographies, which have become outdated and much too common. Memoirs are a more sophisticated and creative way to keep a diary of memories.
Memoirs are often less structured and less formal, usually written from the first person point of view.