A “reflection of yourself” is essentially a memoir of what has happened in your life, and many people will write something with a lot of facts (age, DoB, location, parents and siblings, school(s), etc). If you are a good writer, and want to make it stand-out from others’, put MOST of your time into the preparatory work on it. Sit down, and jot down significant things that happened in your own life, or that of your family - just bullet points. If there is something painful, or difficult, sad or interesting - and especially if you learned something from it and regardless of the situation, if you overcame some issue, learned a new understanding, became a better person in some way from it… or even if it involved someone else, but you personally learned a lesson…
Next, flesh out (on paper or the computer) no more than three of those stories - everyone loves a story infinitely better than just facts, but it must be real and personal to youA “reflection of yourself” is essentially a memoir of what has happened in your life, and many people will write something with a lot of facts (age, DoB, location, parents and siblings, school(s), etc). If you are a good writer, and want to make it stand-out from others’, put MOST of your time into the preparatory work on it. Sit down, and jot down significant things that happened in your own life, or that of your family - just bullet points. If there is something painful, or difficult, sad or interesting - and especially if you learned somethi
