1.5 - To Sum Up...

After a few days or weeks of looking at items from your past, collectively what do they say about your life?

Create 10 sentences to sum up your life.

If you’re struggling to get started, try to write/record one or two about each stage you listed in your timeline. For me that would be childhood, high school, college, professional work, family.

 

Examples

 

CHILDHOOD

To sum up, in my childhood 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.

To sum up, having two older brothers who were very athletic and into sports made me competitive--I played along with them at soccer, baseball, basketball and loved it, but it also made me an outlier among girlfriends and somewhat awkward around guys outside of playing sports.

 

HIGH SCHOOL

To sum up, getting good grades, excelling in sports, and being awkward around boys are my strongest memories of high school.

 

COLLEGE

To sum up, I struggled to make friends, put most of my energy into getting good grades, and finally found my element when a basketball program was started and I made the team.

 

PROFESSIONAL WORK

To sum up, I’ve always felt like an outlier—with family and 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.

 

FAMILY

To sum up, 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.

To sum up, 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.

To sum up, 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.

To sum up, 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.