DAY 1 - YOUR LIFE IN TWO SENTENCES

 

1. Sum up your life in statements of one or two sentences. Write as many as come to mind.

 

Examples (but remember these should be about YOUR life)

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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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I’ve met and had relationships with many people, but I have trouble maintaining a close, lasting friendship. I think jealousy enters into it, or maybe possessiveness. I have to be number one and only.

 

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.

 

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.