3.6 - Extra/Replacement Exercise - Your Life in Three Sentences

Think about your life and try to sum it up in two or three sentences.

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Examples

1. My life has turned out wonderfully, but I never thought it was wonderful along the way. I want people to like me and befriend me, but I’m not a very good friend.

2. My family has been a blessing to me.  Even though my parents didn’t get along well, they always took care of us and each other.

3. Marrying my husband changed my life. I had reached the point where I had given up on love and having a family but the wait was worth it.

4. I often wonder if I was a good parent to my son. If I had done things differently in dealing with his TS would his life be better, worse, or the same.

5. Being a tomboy placed me outside the norm, but because of it I was exposed to activities I loved and people who were fun to be with.

6. Life with my parents was difficult because of my father’s drinking. Yet I always felt I’d be taken care of and okay.

7. Having two older brothers who were very athletic and into sports made me competitive. I played along with them—soccer, baseball, basketball—and loved it. But it also made me an outlier among girlfriends and somewhat awkward around guys outside of playing sports.

8. I have many people who like me, but I have trouble maintaining a close, lasting friendship with a female. I think jealousy enters into it, or maybe possessiveness. I have to be number one and only.

9. My parents, brothers, and I did lots of things together until our teen years when we each started to go our separate ways. Then once my parents died, it became seeing my brothers on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

10. I’ve always felt like an outlier—with family, friends. The only group I didn’t feel that way with was coworkers once I established myself as a teacher—maybe six or eight years into it.

11. I have difficulty maintaining friendships. I think I expect too much from friends, things like loyalty, honesty, a willingness to talk things out if the relationship gets rocky. What I want isn’t always the way things should be or could be.