Assignment 1: Significant Event Lifeline
For this assignment, we were to create a timeline featuring six significant events from our lives. The entire process required me to reflect back on a lot of experiences. How do you know what is truly significant?
For me, significant events were not necessarily huge, loud, garish things that announced themselves with fireworks and lights. Instead, I carefully searched my memories for simple conversations, casual happenings that changed my outlook on life, sometimes without my realizing it. Now, don't get me wrong, some of the events I picked were pretty big. And there will be quite a few more added to the list, I am sure. But these six things really got me thinking about my past and how it will dictate my future. I strongly urge all of you to carefully consider even the smallest things, because they have a huge impact on our lives.
I'm a biology nerd, so I'm going to use an analogy that fits with that perfectly. Everything in life regarding the function of organisms and how they survive is dictated by units so small that we can barely see them with advanced microscopes and other technology! DNA controls nearly every aspect of appearance and bodily function, yet it is one of the smallest things in the body, smaller even than any cell or cell organelle. Tiny errors in DNA makeup can wreak absolute, and sometimes fatal, havoc within the body. Life events are a lot like DNA: sometimes the smallest things have the greatest power, even if they are fleeting. Keep this in mind every day.
For me, significant events were not necessarily huge, loud, garish things that announced themselves with fireworks and lights. Instead, I carefully searched my memories for simple conversations, casual happenings that changed my outlook on life, sometimes without my realizing it. Now, don't get me wrong, some of the events I picked were pretty big. And there will be quite a few more added to the list, I am sure. But these six things really got me thinking about my past and how it will dictate my future. I strongly urge all of you to carefully consider even the smallest things, because they have a huge impact on our lives.
I'm a biology nerd, so I'm going to use an analogy that fits with that perfectly. Everything in life regarding the function of organisms and how they survive is dictated by units so small that we can barely see them with advanced microscopes and other technology! DNA controls nearly every aspect of appearance and bodily function, yet it is one of the smallest things in the body, smaller even than any cell or cell organelle. Tiny errors in DNA makeup can wreak absolute, and sometimes fatal, havoc within the body. Life events are a lot like DNA: sometimes the smallest things have the greatest power, even if they are fleeting. Keep this in mind every day.
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