Recently, a friend of mine said that the name of his autobiography would be Drunker Than I Thought. This made me laugh. Then it made me think what I'd call my own autobiography. There are lots of possibilities. But I also feel like titles are confining in some ways. I mean, how do I (how does anyone) find a few words to encapsulate a life? Daunting. But then I thought again and realized that it's a fucking title and it could be fun to think of things and I should get the hell over myself. So I thought of a few things. Many were food related. This makes a lot of sense since I love food. In the end, only one real food-related title made it into the list of possibilites. What is surprising is that as I was brainstorming ideas two allergy-related titles popped up. They're kind of funny, so they're both on the list. A few more speak to the way I'm feeling about my place in the world right now and a few are pieces of me. The initial list was REALLY long. But it's an interesting thing to do. Both fun and painful. Anyway, here are some of the titles I came up with:
Are You Gonna Eat That?
Acquired Taste
Stop Looking at Me
Not Exactly How I Pictured It
'No' is a Complete Sentence
Gone for Kleenex
Itchy
I Don't Need a Map
Illegible
Unqualified
Controlled Bleeding
I'm Not Tired
The Color of October
15.7.11
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Hahaha. I love it. I may have to steal this idea, if only for my personal journal. I think Controlled Bleeding is quite nice.
I LOVE this exercise!!! You picked such good ones!! Although I don't know if I'm in the right headspace to think about headlines for my life. I feel like I'd create one long laundry list of bad, depressing self-help book titles.
Let's stick with "Strong, Brave, True." That's my title.
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