My Six Word Memoir

I’m sure many have shared stories of their high school experiences and can relate when I say those four years have taught me many lessons. During this time, I’d come face to face with the fraudulent friendships, temporary romances, and other high school dramas that my parents once warned me about—those of which I simply brushed off as myths. It wasn’t the 90’s anymore— times have changed and people are different—or at least, that’s what I thought.

It started off slow and by slow I mean really slow. My father was a deacon and my mother was the Sunday school teacher for the kids and adults, My Spirituality was something I don’t think much about as a kid. I was more in to Power Ranger and Ninja Turtle that anything else. My mom and dad tried to make god a part of my life but it don’t work. I was just a little kid and all I want was to play.

Running is much more than it seems. People view it as a way to get in shape, lose weight or even just a hobby. It is much more than that, running is a dumbed down version of a psychologist. Two miles in, a lifetime to go, came directly from what someone's mind wants them to believe during a run, it wants them to quit, cut it short. Why would someone keep going if the only reward they could maybe receive is a shiny piece of metal or to lose a few pounds? Why would someone go to practice and push themselves to the point of exhaustion, get up, and do it again everyday? For most, this would be absurd, but a select few realize the undercover benefits that come with this kind of self induced trauma.

Now before you get too comfortable with the simple little title listen up buttercup and allow me to let you in on a little secret. I’m not what you would call a nice guy I might walk the walk, but deep down once you get to know me on a comfortable level I can come off as a dick and often times I don’t think before I talk. It’s good that I’m getting this out of the way because according to Mary Karr in her book titled “The Art of Memoir” she mentions that “the best writers make you feel they’ve disclosed their soft underbellies." Which I believe highly qualifies my memory as a memoir due to the fact that I’m being honest and I’m being myself. I believe that I have given my all into this paper disclosing to you about my personal love life. Now before you read on into my so called “exciting” life allow me to give you a bit of a warning I may or may not say something that might offend you and if you are one of those that gets easily offended, I highly advice you to put this paper down and walk away just pretend you never even laid eyes on it. Now for you brave souls that are still reading this then congratulations, you have passed and you are ready to read about my dysfunctional life.

Final minutes of the first half winding down, my team was marching down the field with a purpose. Across the gridiron was our rival team, Mayfield, who we had beat the previous year in the state championship game. It was a cold November night and the stage was set, playing on their home field, “The Field of Dreams,” in Las Cruses, New Mexico in the semi-finals of the state tournament. Up 14-0, we had the ball and were trying to score before going into halftime. I was handed the ball for a running play and then it happened. Falling to the ground as if I had been shot, I had completely torn my hamstring. I was in complete shock as I lay on the ground. As the pain

Yeah, I directed an episode of Haven in its last season. And that was something I had always been working toward even before I worked on Haven. I've shadowed directors as much as I could and as long as I could in the hopes of one day getting to direct myself. And that actually came to pass, and the experience was beyond my wildest dreams. It was just incredible. I loved it. I was terrified and just completely overwhelmed the whole time with a combination of sheer terror and pure joy. It was amazing.

Today we are leaving Concord New hampshire. We are very upset because we loved our visit. We were packing up to leave. We walked down to go eat some breakfast. I got toast. After breakfast we went up stairs to get are stuff to leave. When we hopped in the car we looked out the window of the car.

We are always told live our lives to the absolute fullest, without any regrets. My grandmother always told me to keep my regrets to an absolute minimum. I may have put myself in a variety of distasteful paths over the last couple of years, I will admit; and I believe that I can only succeed from there. I haven't necessarily had an event or experience to write about, instead, I’ve had a pretty generous handful of them. From the beginning of my freshman year, up until now, my life has been quite a maze. I also know that I have had nobody to blame but myself, and that has helped me realize that my life and the path I take will be solely up to me. I have seen the power that my choices and actions can have. My entire life has been one large experience; it has taught me maturity, responsibility and appreciation for the ones who want to see me

I have recently read “A Clack of Tiny Sparks” and I am astonished at the amount of detail that what you have encompassed in this memoir. The general implication of this memoir was that although you are happy now, you wonder how things would turn out if you had embraced you sexuality sooner. However, the encounters you have in environment, provides readers with an understanding of why you kept your sexuality a secret. The indirect way of telling your story leads readers a need to uncover how you feel and what you were thinking in that moment. Your main tool for doing this was using substitution and other characterizations to convey these feelings and thoughts.

I picked this certain six word memoir, because my family means everything to me. I look at family as if I didn't have them I would have nothing. They're my lifeline. I would not let anything happen to my family. I protect them as much as possible. My cousin Avery had cancer at the age of 7 and it hit my family hard. That is why I chose the picture I did, because I wanted to show that even though some family's do fight sometimes, we can still come together for something we are all passionate about and someone we all value as a family.

I believe that what really sets me apart from the other candidates applying to the University of California is that I am willing to go the extra mile that the other candidates are not. I am hard working and what I really mean by when I say “I am willing to go the extra mile that the other candidates are not” I mean that I am not afraid to do what it takes, I have the determination to back up what I say and the actions I take and that is what really sets me apart from the other candidates.

Ever since i was little my mom was in and out of hospitals because she was really sick all of the time.She was with us all as me and my older brother was growing up. But when my sister was born my mom was only with her for a year. My sister’s first christmas my mom came home and my sister didn’t even really know who she was. I really didn’t know how bad it was till fifth grade when i began to become depressed because of her sickness.

Throughout my life, I feel like I have been pretty successful. I have been able to accomplish some of my personal goals, while both being able to give back to my community and plan for my future. I hope that my with the success I have had already, will help me have an even more successful life in the future.

In terms of ancestry, I know very little about where I come from. On my father's side, much of my linage were African-American slaves. On my mother's side there little information to help me orient myself on a map other than being a mix of European which would include, Italian, Welsh, German, and Irish.

I remember myself sitting near a little block with letters and my mother teaching me the name of each of them. She starts to sing me a song to help me to memorize the alphabet. It is so funny singing the ABC song. At that instant, the door opens, and my father enters the room. That is the first thing carved in my memory, and each time when I think about it, I conclude that we are the best family in the world.