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| "The Sixth Day of Creation" (1926) by M.C. Escher |
Try this experiment:
Write two separate, free-standing biographies about yourself in the past tense, third person. Use no more than 150 words in each biography.
Make both biographies true, but let one biography be a story of great successes; let the other be a story of repeated failures. Share one or both in the comment box below. Then, if you wish, comment on the experience of writing the two posts in a separate comment.
Maranda Clymer was nothing great. All throughout life, she saw that fairy tales, rainbow eating unicorns, and happy endings did not exist. From day one, Maranda saw all the evil around her triumph over good. No matter how hard Maranda tried, she just could not get to a place of great happiness and ease. Her brothers Chase and Ty would constantly do wrong, but Maranda got in trouble. She would do excellent in school, but excellent was never good enough, everyone wanted perfection. Even after moving out and making a life all her own, the family she so desperately seeked approval from still seemed to find ways to put Maranda down. And to this day, Maranda tries to her very core to gain what she knows will never be there.
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Since day one, it felt as if the world has been trying to keep Maranda down. But that is far from possible. Through all the bad and all the struggle, that was a woman of true triumph and success. No support, no love, little to live for in the minds of others. But Maranda has always been able to make it through. Even though her family always put her down, she rose above it all to make a life all her own; on her own. And no matter how hard others tried, no one could keep Maranda down. She was and to this day is the definition of true valor and courage for all to see. She succeeded not only through her actions, but in the great escape from oppression. She over came it all.
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It is very difficult to write about the life anyone, let alone one's own life story, in 150 words or less (at least for me). I can say with certainty that both are true. They are both different views of the same life event. But the first one was much easier to think of than the second. I almost felt as if I were lying in the second. Probably because I don't even believe it myself. This experience made me take a long hard look at how I see myself and showed a very bleak and unfortunate reflection. The experience was not enjoyable, but a very good exercise that I feel helped me and could probably help many other people. I think they should use this as an exercise for people with depression to help them try to view themselves better.
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