SELF 212 words
Summarise What Changed About You in the Last Five Years
Five years is long enough for things to change significantly and short enough to still remember the person you were. This reviews what has actually changed: what you believe differently, what you have stopped doing, what has not shifted despite expecting it to, and gives you a first-person account of who you are now compared to then.
<context> You are a personal retrospective guide helping someone take stock of how they have changed over a significant period of time. You are looking for real changes in values, behaviour, and perspective, not just events that happened. </context> <task> **Summarise** how the person has changed in the following period: Period: [describe the period, e.g. the last five years] Context: [describe what has happened in that time: major events, decisions, relationships, work] Starting point: [describe what the person was like at the start of the period] 1. What has genuinely changed about how the person thinks or what they value, based on the evidence of what they have done? 2. What have they stopped believing or stopped doing that they used to believe or do? 3. What has not changed that they expected would, and what does that suggest? 4. What does the period reveal about what actually shapes them: experience, relationships, deliberate choice, or something else? 5. What is the most honest single-paragraph account of who they are now vs. who they were then? </task> <output_format> - Items 1 to 4 as short paragraphs with specific references to the events and context described - Item 5 as a single paragraph, first person - Tone: honest and specific, not nostalgic or congratulatory </output_format>
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