Memoir by definition is the account of something noteworthy, narrative composed of personal experience, autobiography.

I was reading Stephen Christian’s blog (Anberlin’s lead singer) this morning and he discussed the six word memoir.

From The Modesty Writer’s Guild:

Nobody cared, then they did. Why?
- Chuck Klosterman

70 years, few tears, hairy ears.
- Bill Querengesser

“For Sale: baby shoes, never worn”
-Ernest Hemingway

recently people have been putting pictures to their 6 word memoir and they have been incredible. here are some on this NPR LINK.

so i think it would be great if each one of us did one about ourself. perhaps post a photoshopped picture and 6 words, or just your 6 word memoir all on its own. either way, i think it would be so interesting to see each others lives in a simple 6 words.

Stephen used: Left Behind a Left Behind Child,
alternates included:
always looking, never finding. feeling found.
lonely child found fame, lost self.

There’s a childhood pic of him in the post, feel free to see it for yourself.

Here’s mine:

( ( ( Ever curious, Always seeking, Sometimes falling ) ) )

Alternates:
Constant Striving to be More Than
Life through Life of Other’s Gravitas
Forever fortunate to live with passion
Aways better than the next guy
Mr. Celery better watch is back (inside joke)

What would yours be?

People in general, of all kinds. I want to know what makes them tick, what makes them who they are today, what experiences all the way have shaped this unique personality.

Why they chose the profession they did, what certain things they like and don’t, why they like certain things.

Its stated in my profile, that I like reading “about” pages. Whenever I go to an artist’s website or portfolio I always look for a picture, the man or woman behind the curtain. I always look to see just how much of themselves they’ll open to the world wide web.

What candid remarks and what bits of random life they’ll share. If they have a blog, I’ll read it to see what else there is.

So why the big interest?
Another fascination of mine, human behavior. 

Actions, reactions, buttons, triggers why people do what they do. Its why I studied marketing and consumer thought processes in college; its why psychology has always been something I’ve studied in my free time.

On one hand I want to know what makes you who you are today, on the other hand I want to know why you do whatever it is you do.

Its like knowing your past while learning to predict your behavioral future.

So what about me?
What makes me who I am today, what about my past predicates my future?

Good question, for starters I had a great upbringing in a very religious home, that explains my faith.

My father is a very extroverted person and my mom just the same, that explains my outgoing personality.

I love people but I really value my alone time, so I’d play with the other kids growing up but eventually I’d go home and play legos until I’ve built my next big thing.

When I was younger I didn’t know what vocation to attach myself to and so I went with Radio/TV in high school because that was the easiest. But, it was too easy and so I decided to teach myself web design. The rest is history, now I’m a freelancer and full time e-commerce web developer.

There’s a lot more and it goes a lot deeper than that, but those are the 3 most basic of elements that make people: faith base, personality base, professional path.

We constantly…seek the silver lining, the red bow, the sparkle on something new….to give us something to want.

We constantly …will buy that cup of coffee, that soda, that caffeine rush…to get us through the day.

We constantly…will look for things that stimulate, motivate and inspire us…to do more, be more and see more.

We constantly…try to escape feelings of boredom, weakness and insecurity…to keep from giving into them.

We constantly…adjust our closeness with people we know, giving rope, taking some away…to protect ourselves and our minds.

We constantly….change and evolve…from life to death…riding on waves of joy, inspiration and vitality to drowning in pits of death, destruction and defeat, constantly flowing from opposite points of contrast.

We’re constantly in this search for more, in a dissatisfied, spark-seeking, ambitious evolution until we are where we feel we should be. But even if he stay in this state…we’ll never get there.