I'm doing 29 things
Would you break the law to save a loved one?
Absolutely. Especially if it was a silly law and what I was doing wasn’t hurting anyone else. Probably also if it did hurt someone but they never knew it. (Pretty morally lax, but true.)
If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
I would stop striving for things in my career. Although I’ve come 97% of the way towards my ultimate career goal, I think if I knew I’d die in 5 years, I’d drop the questing for the 3%. Enjoy the part I do have, not sweat the small stuff. Take even more vacations, be nicer to people, help other people more. Stop being so grabby: after all pretty soon I won’t need anything anyways. Be more accepting of my husband’s flaws. See beauty in the world every day instead of just sometimes. Accept my body.
Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
More worried about doing things right (see above). If I only lived to 40, it’d be damn time to shut down the voices in my head (my mother, my mean Russian violin teacher from teen years) and just get on with it already. Agonizing and feeling bad is helping no one.
What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
I sleep a lot, and purposefully schedule leisure time. To read, take trips. Luckily I have this luxury, which not having kids helps with! (but this was a conscious choice not to have kids.) But I still know plenty of people (childless and with plenty of money) who still work too much. Plus it helps as I’m in a creative field so I justify the rest by needing it to recharge my creativity! :-D
Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
I do push it more than once. Although I know it doesn’t make it move faster, it makes me feel like I am doing something and not standing there completely helpless at the whims of a mechanical device (although I know I am.)
Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
A joyful simpleton. Joy is what I would like more of in my life. Not brains. Of course the challenge is being joyful without giving up your mental faculties. A work in progress.
Georgina47's Life List
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1. Find the motivation to become healthier.
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2. Practice finding joy and daily gratefulness.
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3. Learn Spanish.
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4. Visit the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica.
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5. Start singing again
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6. Take a sculpture class
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7. Read 10 books I feel like I "should" have read. Hopefully enjoy them!
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8. Have a beautiful garden
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9. Visit all 50 states
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10. See all the films that have won the Best Picture Oscar
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11. Go parasailing
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12. Learn "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" on the violin
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13. Tidbits of Randomness!
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14. Practice "And How Am I Like This?" when judgementalism, impatience or annoyance raise their smug heads
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15. Go on a rejuvenating spiritual retreat.
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16. Capture my parents' oral history on audio or video.
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17. Make a career plan to take myself as far as I can (or choose to) go.
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18. Learn how to draw with pastels
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19. Sponsor a child at El Hogar in Honduras
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20. Attend church twice a month.
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21. Do 43 More New Things!
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22. Grow my own vegetables.
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23. Change all beneficiaries on life insurance, 401k, IRAs, etc.
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24. Record an album.
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25. Develop some emotional resilience.
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26. Complete the 50 Questions that will free your mind
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27. Learn to play disco bass.
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28. Meet goal on Weight Watchers
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29. Attend the Best Friends/ No More Homeless Pets Conference
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I’m no longer telling ANYONE ANYTHING. I take in confidences for friends but they don’t leave my mouth.
I was burned big-time by a close friend (not anymore) who I had told something to in confidence and she blabbed.
Now I keep myself to myself.
11. Visit Buenos Aires.
12. Walk on a glacier. Actually got to do this twice on our recent trip to Chile/Argentina! Perito Moreno and Glacier Viedma. Awesome!
13. Sleep in a geodesic dome. We stayed at this awesome place in Chile: Ecocamp Patagonia.
14. Visit the Columbia River Gorge.
