02 July 2012

Day Two: Six-Word Memoirs

Life of Love

Hello, Hello! Well it’s day two of the 15 day challenge and todays prompt is all about writing memoirs, short ones, 6 words to be exact. I didn’t know how I was going to do mine, I mean 6 words is really hard to work with! But then I saw Suze at Suze Blog at I really liked the way she set hers out. She came up with milestones or eras within her life and used them as a starting point to create the 6 word memoir. So because I think it’s such a great idea, I’m going to follow her lead and go with a similar method.



Childhood: Daydream Believing: adventure and magical hideaways.



Teenager: Pain, Anger and Truth with Lies.



20Something: Learning from the past; moving forward.

 



To go one step further, I’m going to explain my choice of words and why I feel they describe those decades in my life. First and foremost, the fun that was my child hood! I was a bit of a dreaming when I was younger, I was the type that believed in magical beings, fairies and other such things. I use to believe the characters in my books were real and there was a world of adventure I was missing out on. When I was living in New Zealand, our area use to flood a lot and I thought that I could be like Christopher Robin (but a girl) and turn an umbrella upside down and sit in it like a boat and it would take me away to some place amazing (clearly didn’t understand the concept of what floats and what sinks!) But my point is, I was one of those creepy kids that live in some imaginative world in their head because that’s just how they are.



As a teenager, I wasn’t exactly the poster child for perfection. I was really angry, I was sad, I was a jumble of emotions and while I realise it was my teen years and I’m not the only one to experience hardship in my life, I’m just well aware that all that pent up frustration I had and the animosity I had toward my parents and my family was part of the reason I made bad choices and basically led a life of self-destruction. I wasn’t a terrible teenager but I did make bad choices and if I could go back again and do it all over again OR if I could go back and tell my 15 year old self what she’s doing wrong, I would make it abundantly clear that I’m stronger than the choices I make, I don’t need to be impressing anyone else or fighting for the attention of my parents, I just need to find my own courage and make the choices I know are right.



 

And clearly my 20something memoir is fairly self-explanatory. I’m smarter these days and I’ve made plenty of mistakes in the past that I know what I need to learn and what I need to change in order to shape the future I want. The past is the past and there isn’t anything I can do about it to change it, I made my mistakes and whether or not the choices I made back then were right or wrong, I can’t change them; all I can do is look to the future and realise that the mistakes of my past are what gave my strength in the present. 

10 comments:

  1. "Learning from the past, moving forward" is completely powerful! Congrats on something that I know is very hard: self-reflection. You're awesome, Kerri! Thanks for participating!

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    1. Aww thank you. I'm really enjoying this challenge, even though it's only two days in! But that prompt was simple but complex, if that makes sense :)

      Thanks for stopping by!

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  2. I love these!! :) :)
    So much wisdom and practical advice! :)
    Isn't bread amazing...oh my gosh it is my complete weakness.

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    1. Apparently my mother ate a lot of buttered toast when she was pregnant with me, so I blame her; my weakness for bread is entirely her fault :)

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  3. Do you find yourself often romanticizing the past? I do it all the time and I seem to turn mortifying moments of my adolescence into fond memories. And it's making my adulthood extra confusing. Lol.

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    1. All.The.Time.

      I do it more with my childhood because my teen years were just messy and no amount of romanticizing will fix them, but when it comes to my childhood - very much so.

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  4. Thank you! I like your memoirs as well!! Just an FYI - I tried to reply to your comment, and you don't have your e-mail set up. I have a blog post that I did on CAPTCHA and no-reply e-mails that can help with that!!

    xox!

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    1. Ok thank you, I'll try and set that up and fix the problem, thanks for stopping by and letting me know! :)

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  5. I love the advice you would give to your fifteen year old self. Too bad we don't get do-overs yeah?

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    1. Exactly! When I'm having a moment of "I wish I could go back and change this", I try and remind myself that although I can't change the past, I can use what I know to shape the decisions I make for the future. Just because I made a particular mistake in the past doesn't mean I have to make the same choice in the future.

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