I'm happier as a nobody - fewer people expecting me to do things for them.

Well, here again, you have an excellent opening line for a story. Or a line of dialogue in a story. Just in every-day conversation, you keep tossing out these gems. That's how I recognize a natural writer, like @goat-girlz, @my-job, everyone...

Fiction

is the way to write about the past, in my opinion. Label it memoir, I won't even glance at it, but tell the assorted glorious or sordid truths in the guise of fiction, and I'll devour it...