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 Thanks to SMITH magazine for starting & to Tess/hrtScholar for sharing this wonderful idea that is spreading so creatively. Here's what it involves - VERY simple & beautiful & you can do it in a minute…
Write & share your life story in just 6 words.
No rules, no limitations, pure choice & freedom for ingenuity, creativity, wisdom & humor.
Here's how it started.
Short on words, deep in meaning, from LA Times
When SMITH magazine asked readers for their six-word memoirs, the miniature life stories had huge impact. ~ By Larry Smith & Rachel Fershleiser
“Everyone has a story. That's the tag of SMITH magazine. Yet until we asked the world to send us six-word memoirs, even we had no idea how true it was. We took a page from Ernest Hemingway. According to legend, he was challenged to write a novel in only six words and came up with “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” We posted the same challenge online, but we asked for true-life stories – in just half a dozen well-chosen words.
To launch the challenge, we posted examples from names we figured most readers would know, such as “Eat, Pray, Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert (“Me see world! Me write stories!” and celebrity chef Mario Batali (he sent 7, each enlightening but none as pitch-perfect as “Brought it to a boil, often”). More than 15,000 (and counting) submissions later, we are continually struck by what proves possible in just six words.The short, short life stories keep coming in, from the inspirational (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”)…
Here are several other speak-for-themselves examples:
Found true love, married someone else.
~ Bjorn Stromberg
Secret of life: Marry an Italian.
~ Nora Ephron
I think, therefore I am bald.
~ Dickie Widjaja
Me: consistently avoiding death since 1978!
~ Daniel Fowlkes
It was embarrassing, so don't ask.
~ Alex Lindquist
ABCs MTV SATs THC IRA NPR.
~ Jancee Dunn
Put whole self in, shook about.
~ Melissa Delzio
Here is a dozen that I came up with:
From the impossible to the unimaginable
Proved them wrong, now being weself
Co-create from future, immersed in now
Looking for adventure and finding self
I wondered much, stumbled upon truth
Learning to be, while sharing being
MTV MBA ROI NLP EFT ILP
Aha Yummy Yahoo Ole Om Ahh
Not yet who I actually am
I knew not, Yes We can
Best is yet to hit me
Being and becoming, from inside out
& last but not least my envisioned epitaph:
Brought joy like no one else :)
What is yours? Life story just in 6 words…
Dare & share…
D a r i n a :)
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