Memento Vivere

Memento Vivere—*remember to live*—is a memoir about what happens when you forget.Etched into the author’s skin as a promise to himself, those two Latin words become both a compass and a contradiction: a reminder to move, to love, to risk—set against years of retreat, fear, addiction, grief, and quiet disappearance. This book is not a victory lap. It’s a reckoning.Through psychiatric wards and recovery rooms, skydiving jumps and European train rides, marriages and divorces, sobriety and relapse, the author traces a life lived in cycles of motion and collapse. He writes candidly about bipolar disorder, addiction, institutional treatment, and the strange, raw wisdom found among people the world is quick to overlook. He writes about grief that stacks too high—about losing parents, children, love—and the way loss can hollow a person out until simply staying alive feels like an achievement.At its core, *Memento Vivere* is about participation. About showing up badly. About choosing motion when stillness feels safer. It’s about the courage to live again after fear shrinks your world, and the humility to admit you don’t get it right every time.This is a book for anyone who has:* Felt themselves slowly disappear* Loved deeply and lost painfully* Been undone by grief, addiction, or fear* Wondered whether living fully is still possibleWritten with brutal honesty, unexpected humor, and hard-earned wisdom, *Memento Vivere* doesn’t offer tidy answers or hollow inspiration. Instead, it offers something rarer: truth. A reminder that living isn’t something you solve—it’s something you practice.Some days, you forget.Other days, you remember.And that, the author reminds us, is enough to begin again.*Memento vivere.* Remember to live. Read more