Filched from nightvixen. Each item in the list below corresponds to something that happened in my life that year. I'm 24, so there'll be 24 items in it.
- I was born via caesarian section.
- My sister was born when I was 16 months old.
- I was still not speaking when I was 2, and my mum took me to a therapist, who tried bribing me to speak with candy, in vain. Nothing could overcome my self-consciousness.
- Started attending kindergarten at this age, I think.
- Fascinated with discovering what happens to things they're thrown hard (or as hard as a four-year-old managed). Naughty naughty!
- Both my parents worked full time (even before I was born), and so I saw very little of them. My first recollections of the attendant loneliness was around this age.
- Started learning to play the piano.
- I don't remember.
- The family moved to Auckland in November 1988.
- I became one of the top spellers in class.
- Started going to intermediate school, where I met Nicky, who (much later on) became my first crush.
- I first played with a PC at age 11.
- At the Form 2 school social, I was getting really worried about having no partner when Nicky saved the day, becoming the first person to have touched my emotional space. This was a major turning point in my life.
- My favourite subject at high school was music. At Form 3 I took singing lessons, and at Form 4 I studied for school cert music, where I picked up much of my music theory.
- Harassment at school came to a head, and I started planning suicide.
- My name changed to Chris. This was the start of a great raft of life changes that allowed me to deal with life completely differently.
- Began the Great Amnesia, where I decided to forget as much of my old life as I could. Consequently, I remember very little of my childhood and school life.
- Spent summer solstice with Heather, watching Titanic and walking along Mission Bay until sundown. Heather was my third crush, and this event was another major turning point.
- Became aware of the concept of bisexuality, and having found a resonance to it, came out to close friends and family, and publicly a year later.
- After extensive contemplation, decided never to have any children. (I did not learn the term childfree until a couple of years later, however.)
- At my first ‘real’ job I learnt about personality types, and discovered that I'm INFP.
- Met Vicki through Glenn, my fifth crush. The event behind True love was a major turning point in my life.
- Vicki became my best friend. This happened during a very negative period in my life, so I visualise this event as a phoenix rising from ashes.
- Left the IT world to become a teacher.