Is this life story worth turning into a memoir, or is it too similar to stories already told?
I’m wondering about writing a memoir and want honest feedback on whether the life arc is distinctive enough to carry a book.
I grew up as a highly sensitive child in East Africa and lost my mother early, becoming an orphan and carrying grief, solitude, and a strong internal world into adulthood. I eventually built a high-achieving immigrant life in the US—working at FAANG as a Software Engineer and later achieving decent success in finance/Wall Street. Much of my identity was built around logic, independence, hard work, and a relentless “prove yourself” loop.
Romance was another unexpected chapter: while deliberately avoiding relationships because I believed I couldn't afford the distraction, I unexpectedly fell deeply in love with a college girl. The relationship became complicated and painful and left a lasting imprint.
After eventually reaching financial safety and stepping away from the conventional career path, something happened that I didn't anticipate: a sudden and intense spiritual/psychological awakening. Over the following months I experienced what I interpreted as kundalini-type energetic openings, crown/third-eye phenomena, vivid visionary experiences, and profound changes in perception and awareness. The experience wasn't something I had been seeking through a spiritual practice—it emerged unexpectedly during a period of rest and safety.
The dramatic shift was that the person who had spent decades building, proving, achieving, and accumulating suddenly became far less attached to those things. Ambition, status, money, relationships, identity, and even conventional ideas about family and purpose began to look completely different. I became much more drawn toward simplicity, solitude, spacious awareness, and a life with very little unnecessary chaos.
The story is still unfolding rather than ending with a neat “I found the answer.”
Does this combination—early loss and orphanhood → high-achieving immigrant survival/proving identity → unexpected love → major career/financial success → sudden awakening → radical detachment from the life previously built—feel distinctive enough to be worth shaping into a memoir, or does it ultimately sound like another awakening story?
Honest criticism is welcome.