Tuesday, January 24, 2012

6 word memoir

I read a cool article the other day on a man named Larry Smith who asked people to write into him and describe their lives in six words. That was five years ago and he has never stopped getting six word memoirs and has published several books with peoples descriptions of their lives. It got me thinking about myself and the people around me.
What are my six words? If I choose six today will they apply to me next week, next month, next year? Can they encompass everything I am or what the people around me think I am? My answer "Maybe" maybe they will change, maybe they won't, maybe they describe what people see in me or maybe they just describe what I see in myself.

Some of the memoirs that he got are the following:
--I am more then a twin -Diane Campbell
--Abandoned at 5, learning to thrive-Melinda Hui
--Was hot. Raised kids. Lost cool - Trudy Love
--Survived the divorce. Learned to live. -Laurel Hadley
--I dance daily watched or not watched -Olivia Whitman

So I thought about this and I would have to say that being in my late thirty's that the six words that fit me right now are: "You have always had the power"

What about you what is your six word memoir?