The manifesto
01What disappears
We come into this world with limited time. Rich or poor, schooled or not, we all arrive with a deadline and, one day, we disappear.
I have thought about this a lot.
Sometimes I return to my past and remember a scene that marked me deeply. It happened at an exact moment. Nobody else knows it and it is written nowhere. While I exist, that story lives with me. When I am gone, it could disappear too.
And if that happens to me, how many stories like that must already be lost across all of humanity? How many unique, unrepeatable moments will never be known again?
This project is born from the desire to save a small part of everything that is usually lost.
A story does not disappear when it ends. It disappears when nobody can find it again.
02A page from every life
You, too, are a universe of stories.
Some are happy. Others perhaps not. There are experiences you tell often and others only you know. All of them have shaped you and brought you to the person you are today.
We could not keep them all. But perhaps we can preserve one: the one that most represents you, the one that most transformed you, or the one you would not want to disappear with you.
A page cannot hold an entire life. It does not pretend to.
A page is simply a door: a chance for someone who never knew you to meet, even for a few minutes, something true of you.
We are not looking for famous lives. We are looking for human lives.
We are impressed by the immense: the ocean, the mountains, the universe. But life also depends on small and silent things: a bee pollinating, a conversation that changes someone, a decision nobody witnessed.
It is the same with human beings. Some people perform acts that end up in history books. Many others hold families together, endure loss, love, resist, change and help without any record remaining.
This book wants to keep both the extraordinary and the seemingly small, because both are part of humanity.
03Chosen by other humans
Those who write their stories will also help read and choose the stories of others.
Each participant will receive anonymous stories. They will never read their own, and they will not know who the others belong to. They could be reading the story of a banker, of a baker, of a president, or of someone whose name has never appeared anywhere.
Money, fame and influence disappear during the reading.
The original language will not be shown at first either. Each person will be able to read the stories in a language they understand, while the original text remains intact and will always be the canonical version.
The question will be simple:
Which of these stories moved you most?
The stories that resonate most will pass to a final selection made by a human council. Nobody will be able to buy a place. Not even the founder will have a reserved page.
Every life will compete under the same rules.
04Our promise
The digital book will be free forever because its purpose is to preserve and to share, not to lock away.
It will hold 366 stories: one for every day of the year, including February 29. One life per page. None will have more space than another.
I cannot promise you that your story will end up among the 366 selected.
What I can promise you is that it will be read with attention by other human beings.
That is why I invite you to write with honesty. Do not try to seem extraordinary. Do not write what you think others want to hear. Tell what truly happened, what changed something inside you, and what only you can tell.
Those on the other side will be human too. And they will probably recognize the truth when they find it.
A digital copy of this book will travel to space. But its most important journey will begin earlier: when a story crosses the distance between two strangers and, for a few minutes, one life is understood by another.
One page per life. One story for every day. A small record of what it meant to be here.