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
10,622 people -
4. Learn to drive a car
365 people -
5. Join the Peace Corps
2,404 people -
6. learn Dutch
590 people -
7. open my own business
358 people -
8. go on a picnic
138 people -
9. be in a band
1,479 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
845 people -
15. fall in love
24,746 people -
16. Graduate from university
850 people -
17. write in a journal for a friend
1 entry1 person -
18. kiss someone on new years
25 people -
19. Learn to apply makeup
358 people -
20. watch "Away We Go"
1 person -
21. Put a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea
832 people -
22. take a picture every day for an entire year
51 people -
23. live by the sea
524 people -
24. Send a postcard to Postsecret
2,839 people -
25. Learn Java
693 people -
26. feel pretty
353 people -
27. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
18,696 people
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