Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Six Word Memoirs(s)

Hey boys and girls, it's time for more genealogy fun.

Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):

1)  Larry Smith invented six-word memoirs (see https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/).  

2)  How do you want to be remembered?  What is most important to you?  What six-word memoirs would you write?  

3)  Write at least one, on any subject, and the sky is no limit.

4)  Tell us about your six word memoir(s) in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post. 

 

To do this challenge, I tried to answer the question Randy gave:  How do you want to be remembered? To be honest, I found it difficult to answer this because I was thinking about how I wanted other people see me — and that felt weird to me. But discussing it about with ChatGPT reframed with these questions instead :

What kind of person do I want to be, consistently and quietly?”

“What do I hope people felt in my presence?”

“What would make my life feel meaningful to me?”

“What do I want to embody, not just talk about?”

“What do I want to be true about me, even if no one notices?”

This felt much easier to answer in this way. Answering those questions led me to my responses below.

Open hand with an open heart.

That which is messy is sacred.

Honor what feels real, with care.

I am always learning, forever growing.

I’m forever a student of life.

Lead from love, not from fear.

Imperfectly perfect in the Divine eyes.

Held by the Divine’s loving grace. 

Seek to understand rather than punish.

I bridge between past and present.

Compassion is the key into heart.

I meet myself where I am.