Six words: no fewer, no more

People's memoirs. Six words. Surprising results.

Could you sum up your life in six words? "It has been a living hell," maybe.

Hundreds already have in the best seller Not Quite What I Was Planning (Harper, $16.95). Get it? Now the editors at Smith Magazine have revised the book and expanded it into a deluxe edition. Maybe a good Christmas gift for friends who need to get a focus.The book is filled with six-word phrases in which dozens of people — some famous, most not — succinctly sum up their lives.

Joan Rivers, for instance, offers this: "Liars, hysterectomy didn't improve sex life!"Stephen Colbert adds, "Well, I thought it was funny."
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I like novelist Joyce Carol Oates' summation: "Revenge is living well, without you." Not that she's bitter.

Summing up your life in just six words is a fun game for a winter's evening. Think of it as cheap therapy.It can be kind of surprising, too. The end result might be more honest than you ever expected.

Some of the book's "memoirs" are a tad sad. Kelsey Ochs wrote, "Followed yellow brick road. Disappointment ensued." Who can't relate? Gino Serdena came up with "Should have risked asking, he sighed." How many times have we regretted the road not taken?
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But then there are the optimists, the ones who have looked upon their lives with a positive attitude. Like Hillary Carlip: "Take a left turn, then fly."

"Outcast. Picked last. Surprised them all," Rachel Pine says....

Richard Schnedl probably spoke for all optimists with his "Many risky mistakes, very few regrets."...

(complete article by Craig Wilson in USA Today)

How about readers here?
Are you willing to share your six word summary?
Mine is in the combox.

(H/T to KD for the link!)

-ConcordPastor