Be positively impossible to ignore.

Vine, the recently launched service that enables members of the Twitterverse to produce eternally looping six-second videos, has spawned creative cinematography that ranges from (very) brief fashion shows to animated-video baseball cards. Those who successfully pluck six meaningful seconds from the Vine app to loop forever in the Twitter database must be not only extraordinarily imaginative but also exceptional students of human nature. I mean, if first impressions of people are made within seven seconds of a real-world meeting, a Vine video certainly tells Twitter followers a tremendous amount about our individuality, preferences and attitudes in its six-second run.

That fact led me to this inevitable question: If each of us had to pick six seconds from our lives to represent ourselves to the world (whether openly or subconsciously), what scene or montage would we choose? 

Many of us, I suppose, would focus on career achievements—the acceptance of an award, the completion of…

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