This topic is somewhat of a juxtapositional one for me.
One of my oldest artefacts is my first diary written in 1970. One of my newest artefacts is my present diary, for 2024.
With your exceptions, I have kept a diary from the start of my working life as an educator right through until the present day.
EDUCATION, A LIFE FORCE 
It is very wonderful to write your memoirs. Long life. Are you a man or a woman? The profile picture confuses me
A man.