My best friend wrote “to” me in a journal when I went off to college and I read it this summer. Although she didn’t write often and stopped half way through the year what was written was cute, poignant and revealing. Because it was in writing she was able to express some of her more private feelings; ones which she wouldn’t necessarily be able to express face-to-face. In all I was flattered and honoured that she decided to do something like that for me. So I’ve decided to do the same. I’m not very good at expressing the way I feel and I have trouble letting people in, but I’m hoping that I can be just as vulnerable as she was in her journal to me. I can’t decide whether to do it just for a year or fill up the whole journal first. Whichever comes first I suppose.
Arcada's Life List
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1. do well in school this year
10 people -
2. Continue learning Japanese
8 people -
3. exercise regularly
10,498 people -
4. Learn to drive a car
351 people -
5. Join the Peace Corps
2,383 people -
6. learn Dutch
576 people -
7. open my own business
353 people -
8. go on a picnic
131 people -
9. be in a band
1,486 people -
10. go to the museum of modern art
4 people -
11. get in a fistfight
12 people -
12. go to the Isle of Skye
4 people -
13. grow lilies of the valley
1 person -
14. Make a scrapbook
831 people -
15. fall in love
24,426 people -
16. Graduate from university
849 people -
17. write in a journal for a friend
1 entry1 person -
18. kiss someone on new years
23 people -
19. Learn to apply makeup
351 people -
20. watch "Away We Go"
1 person -
21. Put a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea
824 people -
22. take a picture every day for an entire year
52 people -
23. live by the sea
522 people -
24. Send a postcard to Postsecret
2,841 people -
25. Learn Java
681 people -
26. feel pretty
348 people -
27. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
18,540 people
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