Quotes / Six Word Memoir

This could be taken a few different ways. To me it speaks to growing up in a world where you can’t always achieve your dreams- the contrast between a smiling child wearing a plastic fireman’s helmet and a disillusioned man turning 40 and working at a white-collar job he despises. Well done =)

That’s a comically cynical and so so true. Tends to be the case with growing
up, “I want to be a fireman” now look at us, who’d of thought it !

Woah! This is so sad! (my initial reaction) But then I realized that it could be interpreted the other way as well, so that “things changed” resulted in no longer just thinking but knowing you could.

So I really like that this can be interpreted in two completely different ways – it has just the right amount of ambiguity – and that it says so much by means of implication. All in all, this is my favorite of the 6-word memoirs that I’ve read so far. Good job!

It’s a good reflection, but it isn’t visual. The same concept in a (verbal) picture would be better.

I absolutely love it! It captures the presence of life. And how things change and dreams don’t matter anymore. I have no suggestions for this quote except get it published!

Good luck in the contest. I do like this, brief but gets the job done. Is the point that you were trying to help the person in question but wasn’t able to? That’s what I obtained from this. Good luck.

-Skye