Thanks to my professor Cynthia Pittmann, I started to
develop my own Autobiography Project.
The purpose of the Autobiography Project was to learn more about myself
and my ancestors. I can say that the Autobiography Project worked for me.
Through deep research from past memories, I found explanations to my present
behaviors. Also, I remembered situations from my childhood that can help me now
and in the future. With that being said, the activity that helped me the most
in achieving the purpose of the Autobiography Project was the Timeline. 
With the Timeline, I discovered emotional problems that I
didn’t even knew I had. For example, how much my parents’ divorce had affected
me. In my Timeline, I decided to visit (through my memory) every house that I
had lived in. It was amazing to me how much important things I had forgotten.
Luckily, with deep concentration I started to remember events as far as when I
was four years old. Also, remembering my past relationships with my friends,
family and neighbors, made me feel like a whole different person. It was like
seeing myself, but not recognizing me. That, made me realize how much I had
change, both positively and negatively. The Timeline also made me extremely
grateful for all the good and bad things that had happened to me. Thanks to the
Timeline, I now know why I act as I do in certain situations.
Nevertheless, other activities helped me as well. Through
the Venn Diagram, I noticed how much I fought with my mom. Consequently, I’ve
been trying to fix our relationship, so every day we grow stronger and not
apart.
To conclude, I would love to keep the Autobiography Project,
and read it again in ten or twenty years to see how much my life and the lives
of the people around me have changed. Maybe many people that I have mention in
this project will be out of my life or even dead. Therefore, I hope that I can
grow from this project, have better relationships with others, and create
stories that my successors will remember as well.
Ps: This project made me think of the song "If Today Was Your Last Day" by Nickelback, they share some similarities. For example, both make you cherish every memory you have, and motivate you to make the best of your time in Earth. Enjoy the song!
I'm so happy for you in the way that you enjoyed this project very much. Same as you, I remembered several situations that marked my life. The process of making this project was very interesting because of how we had to do progress work in order to have the final draft. I love the way you expressed in this entry. The quote on the picture is very, very true. The only thing we will always carry with us are those memories we create throughout our lives.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your timeline, I noticed that, according to what you wrote, I served you as a mirror or map where you were able to place every event in you life. Timelines are good tools to see from an objective point of view the events that affected our lives. Also, this tool helps us identify where certain situations rose and began to affect us.
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