John Johnson... I mean Jeffrey Jeffreyson... I mean Erik Erikson

I'd like to reflect on the assignment we did in class a few days ago. The class where we all wrote down the 20 most significant events in our life (10 from past, 10 in future), we came to some unique results and some not so unique results.
I think these results can be explained based on Erik Erikson's stages. First and foremost, check out his name. A guy with a name like that knows what he's talking about. But seriously, there was a reason why our 10 events that had already happened were so much different from each other's responses than were our 10 events that would happen in the future.
Erik Erikson's stage chart explains how we go through different stages in different parts of life, and a lot of the way we turn out depends on those around us, and upon ourselves. So what I derived is that the reason our first ten events were so different from each others' was because we were all already raised in different ways up to this point. For example, perhaps Gabe was more adventurous in his "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt" stage from age 1-3. Perhaps Gabe was in an environment where he could explore wherever he wanted, and hence learned to trust himself a lot. That could explain why Gabe's highlight event from age 5 was his first kiss, while mine was a more reserved event: my kindergarten graduation.
And the reason why our future events were all so similar (like marriage, college graduation, retirement) was because we have not yet experienced those ages, and our experiences have not been able to shape us into unique human beings yet.
So Erik Erikson knew what he was talking about. (So does Phillip Phillips, but that is a different story.) The way we experience different stages of life impacts the rest of our lives.