List five possible openings for your biography

That was one of the challenges or questions on my new favourite website Soul Pancake. Here are mine.

1. When I was 7 I fell off a jungle gym right onto my back, oddly enough all I could think of at the time was an eagle that had snatched a chapati from my hand earlier. When I was 14 I fell off a bunk bed onto my back, that time my mind was blank.
2. The word “Love” is an odd one isn’t it? How can one word so encompass all manner of emotion. I can say “I love my mother” or “I love food” and they both make perfectly good sense but that doesn’t mean I would like to eat my mother or would have liked my ancestors to have been aubergines.
3. Why isn’t life enough?
4. I am a ghost writer and this is someone else’s story.
5. I once participated in an exercise to list five possible opening for my biography. I am not using any of them.

What are yours? Feel free to comment them or go over to Soul Pancake and participate.

~ by darlkom on April 21, 2009.