Can you write a short story that summarizes your life...the good, the bad and the ugly..in a paragraph or two?

Question

OK!!! Leave out the ugly if you must!! LOL!

Answer 1

Hmmmmm. Promising young musician/artist from large country family drops out of art school and becomes a CPA. Marries an insane woman and has 3 kids. Gets a promising job which turns into a desperate sweathouse. Divorced, goes back into music while keeping horrible day job. Remarries sweet woman, also a CPA, with a quadriplegic son. A new child is born, future is mixed, but expectations are high. Ex-wife is still crazy and spends 18 years trying to turn kids away from dad. Succeeds with oldest son. Younger son is tragically killed outside home at 16 in a violent act. Quadriplegic step-son has series of unsuccessful and painful spinal fusion surgeries. I quit my job to be a stay at home dad and to sell musical stuff on ebay. Eventually fall into an early out retirement thru old employer. The youngest has ongoing emotional problems due to her brother's death. Wife becomes disabled due to depression, lupus, and daily intense migraines. Migraines only get worse in time.... and no intervention is successful. Bright, but troubled, youngest child has serious school problems academically. She also begins to develop nearly daily migraines at only 14. No success yet with intervention. Oldest son gets married and his wife gets pregnant. Later the insane ex-wife dies unexpectedly and father and son are re-united. Grandson born.... a delight. New hope emerges, but we still deal with difficult issues. Quadriplegic son has spinal infection from the metal hardware, which gets removed, infection is healed and he returns to MSU to continue college.

Currently, wife is unable to assist with any but the most basic home tasks and can't be trusted to add and subtract accurately. Medicines have caused a weight gain of over 100 pounds. She is still the love of my life and always will be. Oldest is working on PhD in Info Technology at Syracuse, next son lives close by and we see him alot. We are working for special accomodations for our daughter at school. Basically.... we all do the best we can. Due to my wife's declining condition, we avoid much thought about the future.

There you go. Not the whole story.... but 54 years in a nutshell.

Answer 2

yes.

I've had a very hard, very difficult, very miserable life; There have been some good times, but most of my experiences have been bad. Anymore i tend to complain a lot about the unfairness of certain situations. I feel as though i managed to come thru all of the traumas of life remarkably, confidently and with a tremendous amount of grace, only to find myself at the bottom of a pit, destitue and in the pit of despair. I feel abandoned when i am in need of reassurance the most. And i feel very angry over injustices that i've experienced lately. My attitude is not the same as it once was either, but i know that in time it will change. BUT, i do know, deep in my heart, that despite how i am feeling daily, or what life brings to me, i have a hope that will never die, or be taken away. That hope is in Jesus. So, the summarisation of my entire life up until this point, and my thoughts on it, can be said as such: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked i will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised." (Job 2:21).

*edit* i hope you had the chance to read the details, as i did mention i was going to delete them. If you have not, well, you can always ask for recap. Thanks ♥

Answer 3

I think I can do this now if you don't expect it to be humorous.

THE GOOD I met my husband when I was thirteen and he was twenty. He was my brother's friend. He says he fell in love with me the moment he saw me but kept his feelings secret until I turned seventeen. We were married the summer I graduated high school.

THE BAD Let's go back just a little bit. Leukemia entered my life at age fifteen. But with the loving support of my family, friends, my cat, and Chemo, I beat that rap.

THE UGLY The death of a child is always devastating but when that death is sudden without explanation and totally unexpected, it can be murderous on a couple. Such is SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) The self guilt is crushing, Why didn't I check her sooner? Then blaming your spouse is damning. Why didn't you check on her? The issuing legal investigation is horrendous.

But we made it through it together, hubby and I. We're back to THE GOOD now.

Answer 4

They were best friends and inseparable up till grade six, then they drifted apart. He got involved in sports and he into art. They stopped talking to each other whenever they bumped into each other in the school halls. The guys he started hanging with were football jocks like he was, and they would make fun of his friend, often bumping him or pushing him against the lockers when they saw him coming. He felt strange doing it because at one time they were so close. They used to play all kinds of games together when nobody was around. For many years they were all they had, they truly were best friends. He was going to football practice and saw his friend being bullied by the jocks. He said to them, "leave that puss alone, let's go play some ball." they laughed and followed the jock. A week went by and he noticed that he had not been in school. He saw his sister in the hallway and asked about him. His sister started crying and said that he was in the hospital and had terminal cancer. He ran out of the school, his jock friends asked where he was running to....he told them to f-off. He ran all the way to his friends room, but saw his parents in the hallway crying. They hugged him and told him that all his son could say was that he missed his best friend. Like it?

Answer 5

Bert listened attentively to his parents discussing the wartime hardships they knew as children. He watched their faces as if their memories would somehow appear there like on TV. "When did that happen ?" he suddenly shouted, interrupting his mother in full flow. "Before you were born," she replied. Her awareness of Bert's presence dragged her unwillingly into the present moment.

But for Bert something had changed, and it could never go back. "BEFORE you were born." The words shocked him. How could there be a 'before' him? Wasn't he there at the start? Hadn't everything begun along with him?

He wandered down into the kitchen to be by himself. He needed to work this out. "If there was a 'before me'," he mused, "could there be an 'after me' too?" Then it shook him. If there was going to be an 'after him', how much time did he have before it all ended?

That realisation shaped his every major decision from the age of four right up until he decided to lose a lot a of weight before he hit forty.

(To be continued - hopefully)

Answer 6

My parents divorced when I was three years old, I tired to kill myself when I was 8 years old, my mom endured depression after my new born brother died and my dad divorced her she didm't leave the house for 5 years. I lived with my mom who tried her best for me to have a normal life, I took piano lessons, and swimming lessons. I moved back to the U.S at 15 went to high school graduated with honors, made my mom proud she bought me a diamond neckless with a heart shape.
Went to college took me 9 years to graduate with 2.3 GPA. a year before graduation I was hospitalized for a suicide attempt got over that finished my classes and graduated, now I have a college degree looked and looked for a job without success, fell into depression suicidal hospitalization, blamed my mom for my unhappiness, mom was going through menopause at the time, decided to married someone like my dad to get back at my mom..forgetting that I am the one marrying that person not her...produced two daughters one healthy, the other one has down syndrome. Husband never happy with what I do, seems like his mission in life is to tell me the things that I am doing wrong...contemplating divorce....college graduation was 8 years ago...no skills..young children...waiting on my life to get good...I laugh a lot when people see me they think my life is perfect...they're even a little envious...

Answer 7

No I can't but will a poem do? This is NOT MY life mind you! It is kinda negative but I was going through a negative phase at the time (years ago)

I have loved
And I have lost
And I have tried
And so....
of me, when I am dead
It will be said....
..........that I have died!

But there is so much in between the lines. More than can be caught is a stanza or 2.

Answer 8

My life's complex, but here it goes... the question of my life:

I'm lucky, but not. The sad comes quickly tumbling over the happiness. Happiness tries to fly through, yet can it always?

Answer 9

I like it best when you choose the words for use in chronological order.

Answer 10

No. I couldn't even sum it up in a chapter or two.