Your Life Changing Moment
We are inspired, provoked, enlightened, and humored by user created communities such as http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ which asks people to create a secret and send it in as a form of therapy. I often read the Post secret website or one of the books and see something that strikes a chord with me, makes me laugh, or brings out feelings. One example of post secret is
A slightly less structured community that we are also big fans of is http://www.fmylife.com/ This website and book are dedicated to the funny, sad, or disastrous, yet true stories of people who make a short post that ends with FML as in F my life. One example is "Today, my friend thought it would be funny to put a pretzel on my forehead while I was sleeping on the beach. I now have a pretzle-shaped tan line in the middle of my head. FML"
Next on our illustrious list of the writings of everyday people is a radio program that led to two books and now a Podcast was actually started by National Public Radio in the 1950's. "This I Believe" engages people in the writing and sharing of essays that describe the core values of their daily lives. You can check these out at http://thisibelieve.org/essays/featured/
With simple yet profound brevity, Six-Word memoirs from http://www.smithmag.net/ or the book, "Not Quite What I Was Planning" describe an autobiography in six words. One example, "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know." (This is actually mine, I put it on the back of my iPod)
However, what we think is important in a different vein is how these moments that are written about as secrets, essays, or anonymous posts actually impact your life and how you are changed forever. With that in mind, we came up with the idea for Your Life Changing Moment. These moments can be devastating, lucky, a blessing from a higher power, anything and everything that served as an unequivocal life changing moment for the person you are today.
If you are interested in writing a essay to be added to the Your Life Changing Moment blog, please send the text in the body of an email to jarrydwidhalm@gmail.com
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