The lifeline is a very accessible exercise to know who we are, where we came from, and it is very important to know where we are going. A blank sheet of paper that we divide in the middle with a horizontal line. Right is today; left our birth. Then we score points in chronological order at the moments we remember important. The line marks what we might consider normal, extremely calm, so we will draw the dots higher or lower depending on what we have stored in memory. For example, that first bike of the Three Kings is a little above; when grandma died, she’s way down. First trip to Paris above. Falling in love with Pepe is so high; Discovering that Pepe hit you with someone else is the bottom line. You’ll quickly see that Pepes gives up as soon as he lifts his head, like the spring in El Corte Inglés. But also sometimes a point is not a point, but a line. There are prolonged periods of joy or misfortune, but the usual thing is that our lifeline looks like a kind of electrocardiogram, a roller coaster that confirms this: this too will pass.
