"Life is too short to remain unnoticed"

Several years ago I was given a mouse pad with this Salvador Dali quote. It was a joke, but not. The full quote is "I'm an exhibitionist; life is too short to remain unnoticed". As canvases mouse pads don’t lend themselves to more than the briefest of insights. I’ve always loved this one.
I am writing an autobiography, which could lead people to think I am an exhibitionist……based on at least one definition:
*Someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals*……I don’t think so.
Based on the second definition I could be:
*The act or practice of behaving so as to attract attention to oneself.*
Like most people I like attention and, like most people, I am particular about the type of attention I like. I have an ego. Much of my professional life has most assuredly attracted attention. I’ve chosen or found myself in roles that have given me a public presence; not as me but as a spokesperson or by virtue of appointment. I’m not sure why that is. Most that know me would, I think, agree that I am mostly very private. I am a natural introvert. I draw my energy from my time alone. I like people, but not all the time. I am shy and not always sure how to be in a crowd. It takes me time to trust, to tell my deepest thoughts. I am also simple and like to laugh easily. I am not at all fragile, although easily hurt by those I love; in a child like way.
The autobiography I am writing is about me and my experience. Of the estimated 14,000 books written about the United Nations in Bosnia only a small fraction are personal stories. Less than an estimated 3% are first hand accounts, and none have been written by a woman soldier. As far as I know no other New Zealand female service woman has ever written a book (if you know her or of her, please let me know).
If I write well this book will, for a short time, bring attention, it will be noticed.
I am ready. I am more ready than I was ready to be the soldier that went to Bosnia; I am more ready than I was to be the spokesperson for all those other organizations that had me be their voice in public forums; I am more ready than I was when losing my job became so public; I am more ready than I have ever been to be noticed. Why? Because the past made me ready to commit to having serving women’s stories told as we would have them told. This is the beginning.