The other day I was in the computer lab with some students helping them do some research. I stayed in the room as long as I could, but you can imagine the electrical pollution in there. When the dizziness and pain became too much, I wandered out into the hallway. I saw on the wall a display put up by the English teacher. She had given them an assignment: write your life story in just six words. No more, no less. Actually, the assignment was six correctly spelled words. This is harder than it sounds. I have yet to be able to come up with something for my own life. I did write one for one of my students (milking cows, watching baseball, texting girlfriend). I looked over the display, and was surprised and touched by how powerful six words can be. Some of them were lame (drive it like you stole it, keeping it gangster for all time). But others were really, really good, telling a lot more than the six words that were there. The ones that stick out in my mind is "Two months up, one dad down," and "So many thoughts, can't express any."
I am still thinking about my own. But I have lived for 34 years now, and a lot has happened. There are so many facets to my life. Do I talk about words, writing, music, my kids, my childhood? I don't know. But I will come up with something.
What would your six words be?
2 comments:
This is a very interesting exercise, and I'm going to try to think of my own six-word life story.
Also..."gangster"? In rural Minnesota? BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh, sometimes teenagers crack me up.
I know, it's hilarious!
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