Everyone Has a Story

Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

I remember hearing that same story during a literature class in college and just the other day I came across it again in one of my morning blog reads. As I began to do some further research on what the story behind the six-word challenge was, I came across a project dedicated to the very legend.

The project is called the, "Six-Word Memoirs" and the site invites users to post a summary of their life using only six words. Apparently, there have been several books published with the thousands of posts they received during the first few weeks the site launched and even in the past couple days people are still posting regularly.

After reading some terribly depressing posts mixed in with some really freakin' hysterical ones, it inspired me to start thinking about how I would describe my life in just six words. After hours of counting words on my fingers and randomly cussing alone in my cubical, I came up with five good ones that I think do a good job of describing me in a nutshell.

Here goes...

1. More like my mother every day.
2. Have the memory of a goldfish.
3. Making it up as I go.
4. Queen of sass taking every opportunity.
5. Finally trying to live without regrets.

Here are a few of my personal favorites from the site....

1. Not quite what I was planning.
2. In a Manolo world, I'm keds.
3. Fell in love, married, divorced, repeat.
4. Four children in four decades; whew!
5. Lived in moment, until moment sucked.

It's much more difficult than it looks, but for some reason I find it to be really interesting and if nothing else I got a few good laughs out of it.

PS: I would be interested to see what all of you lovely readers would say if you had only six words to describe your life - so if you're up to give it a go, leave a comment with what yours would be or even some of your favorites from the site. :)