Sara
12-12-2005, 09:33 PM
Ok, I'm stealing an idea from Jenny. She gave a speech last October about her life. When she gave the speech, she drew a graph, pointing out where the highs and lows of her life fell on the graph. She explained all the high and low points. I thought it would be interesting to see your life graphs and read about your lives.
So, here is a template picture that resembles the one Jenny drew:
http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgCLAkkUp7FKKvN!mqpQsbLclOlKQqtLxIxy6KE9dprLEmqFFk6D3FxrMNhDZWedg!qsRg69uK!1yHUsqo2qRXrK3e5grEOvuBg6RpCCx2s/template.bmp?dc=4675551531505924783
You draw a graph with the positive life events above the line and the negative events below the line. You write what your age was when the big events took place and write one or two word descriptions for each event. Your age now goes in the top right corner.
Here is what my graph looks like:
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/7236/sara11ye.th.png (http://img484.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sara11ye.png)
And here are the explanations my of highs and lows:
8: I had a lot of hospital visits when I was younger. I had asthma and pneumona at the same time and was hospitalized for two weeks in the winter. I came back with a fear of needles and blood ...:sick:
9: My parents divorced when I was nine. The divorce didn't bother me. The hardest part was moving, leaving everything, and nearly everybody I knew.
12: I became an Acer! 1994 rocked! My friends got tired of it soon enough.. but I didn't! HAHA!
14: I was in middle school. Not fun! Got bullied, like almost everyone does. I took it a little harder than most but I came out the other side of it with a healthy respect for the compassion of others.
16: I got to live in Sweden as an exchange student. It was fun to begin with...
17: ...but became a lot harder. I created my own little version of Hell and lived in it. Anxiety piled up and nothing was ever the same.
20: I was able to let go of many things that happened in my past and started looking toward the future. It helped a lot. I returned to some old places and was able to give up the 'old ghosts' which followed me around.
23: After many years of thinking and studying, I embraced the Christian faith and was baptised. This was partly due to some posts at THB!
Now it's your turn! Use Paint or another program to draw your graph and write about your life!
So, here is a template picture that resembles the one Jenny drew:
http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgCLAkkUp7FKKvN!mqpQsbLclOlKQqtLxIxy6KE9dprLEmqFFk6D3FxrMNhDZWedg!qsRg69uK!1yHUsqo2qRXrK3e5grEOvuBg6RpCCx2s/template.bmp?dc=4675551531505924783
You draw a graph with the positive life events above the line and the negative events below the line. You write what your age was when the big events took place and write one or two word descriptions for each event. Your age now goes in the top right corner.
Here is what my graph looks like:
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/7236/sara11ye.th.png (http://img484.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sara11ye.png)
And here are the explanations my of highs and lows:
8: I had a lot of hospital visits when I was younger. I had asthma and pneumona at the same time and was hospitalized for two weeks in the winter. I came back with a fear of needles and blood ...:sick:
9: My parents divorced when I was nine. The divorce didn't bother me. The hardest part was moving, leaving everything, and nearly everybody I knew.
12: I became an Acer! 1994 rocked! My friends got tired of it soon enough.. but I didn't! HAHA!
14: I was in middle school. Not fun! Got bullied, like almost everyone does. I took it a little harder than most but I came out the other side of it with a healthy respect for the compassion of others.
16: I got to live in Sweden as an exchange student. It was fun to begin with...
17: ...but became a lot harder. I created my own little version of Hell and lived in it. Anxiety piled up and nothing was ever the same.
20: I was able to let go of many things that happened in my past and started looking toward the future. It helped a lot. I returned to some old places and was able to give up the 'old ghosts' which followed me around.
23: After many years of thinking and studying, I embraced the Christian faith and was baptised. This was partly due to some posts at THB!
Now it's your turn! Use Paint or another program to draw your graph and write about your life!