My Life Events Time-Line
My freshman year class all created a time line about five feet long, with our major events on it from our lives. After everyone was finished, we then weaved them all together to form this quilt-type dealio. It took us about two weeks to create our own spin on them, and I'd have to say that I really enjoyed this because it really shows my life, where it was and where it's headed now-a-days.
The first five symbols on my time-line
This would be the start of my time-line. The first symbol stands for my baby blanket that I no longer have due to a moving mix-up. The second sybol are three alcohol bottles, sybolizing my mother's drinking addiction that she's had all my life. The third symbolizes the telephone poles that my parents used to spray-paint big black X's on to tell me where I could play and where I couldn't. The fourth symbolizes the yelling and screaming that went on for most of my childhood from my parents-they fought A LOT. The fifth symbolizes a personal matter that happpend to my sister and I in our younger years, and I didn't necessarily know how to express that on paper and so that's why it's so jagged and messy. I made this time-line with five feet of reciept paper, and colored pencils. It took me about two weeks.
The next three symbols and their meanings
The sixth symbolizes my beauty pageant dress that I wore back in 2002 when I entered as a small child. The seventh symbolizes when my big brother Caleb taught me how to ride my bike for the first time ever. The eighth symbolizes my love for The Little Mermaid and how I look up to her, even though she's purely fictional.
The rest of my time-line
The ninth symbolizes when I got my very first job at Culver's in my hometown of Clear Lake. I still cureently work there. The tenth symbolizes the obsticles in my life, and how i've come past tham, and how i'm dealing with them now in life. The eleventh symbolizes my battle with deppression and how it's completely genetic in my family. It's actually become a large problem, and we all fight it in my family, but mostly my mother; she seems to have the hardest time with it. The twelvth is half a glass of water, and it symbolizes me looking at life in a new persepctive; the glass is half full, not half empty.