Journal #1 (Reflective): If you could tell your life story to one person, to whom would it be? Where would you begin (moment that changed your world view)?
If given the chance to tell my life story, I do not believe that who I told it would be of critical importance. Although in reality there is a good chance I would end up telling a close friend or family member who may have a more extensive knowledge of my background, I feel like the general point of telling this kind of story is much more introspective and I could tell my story to even a complete stranger. Through telling a story about my own life I would force myself to remember and consolidate the things that greatest affected me as I grew and developed as a person.Through facing these memories, both good and bad, you begin to come to an understanding of how much you have grown as a person. You do not often have an opportunity to reflect on yourself as a changing individual, and because of the very gradual shift in ideals and attitudes toward the world you may not notice how much you have progressed. Because of this I believe the value in telling your own life story is not what someone else takes from it, especially when it might be irrelevant and forgotten by them, but addressing your past and confirming who you are in the present.
The question of where to begin such a story is much harder to answer. I don't feel like my life, at least so far, has had many defining moments or periods of time that have drastically changed who I am as a person or how I view the world. If anything, my academic and social experiences through school have slowly changed my attitude about the world and myself. Thus, if I was telling my life story I would probably begin with my current thoughts and beliefs as a high school student, then work my way forward chronologically from my early years in elementary school and the experiences that shaped me. This way there would be a clear endpoint that my story steered toward, giving it some sort of direction as I told it.
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