I'm doing 43 things
There’s only so much you can hide under long sleeves. I got so sick of my friends telling me to stop doing it, like I immediately could or something.
I had to work for a few days as a waitress and to my horror the shirt I had to wear had short sleeves. I got so many questions about ‘who’s been scratching you’ and ‘how did you do that?’, I probably lost track of all the stories I made up. It made me so sad to see people looking at me like I was a freak.
Obviously, my mum found out around this time. She didn’t tell me to stop, because she knew my sister had done it too, she just told me to be careful. That made me sadder still.
In the end, to be honest, the important task is to learn to stop doing it.
Gloomy_sunday's Life List
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1. Help my friend overcome her depression
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2. Have an underground lair
423 people -
3. make a smaller ecological footprint
1,029 people -
4. live on a boat
300 people -
5. Visit Canada
613 people -
6. get a pet Duck
62 people -
7. tag my city with "You Are Beautiful" stickers.
1 cheer129 people -
8. find 100 things that make me happy
151 people -
9. disappear
125 people -
10. save my fruit seeds and plant them in public spaces
7 people -
11. work for a museum of fine art just for the fun of it
15 people -
12. date someone who is in a band
7 people -
13. write a book and have it published
1 cheer2,727 people -
14. model nude for an artist
1 cheer105 people -
15. Learn to play the banjo
489 people -
16. not feel ugly
1 cheer201 people -
17. Dye my hair a crazy color
1 cheer215 people -
18. sleep under the stars
4,221 people -
19. be a great mother
285 people -
20. go skinny dipping
3,275 people -
21. Visit Ireland
2,749 people -
22. be a tea snob
3 people -
23. run away for a few days without telling anybody
205 people -
24. Go on a road trip
3,803 people -
25. Become Skinny
705 people -
26. design my own tattoo
4,998 people -
27. Worry less.
4,778 people -
28. compose more music
33 people -
29. write a poetry book
61 people -
30. be someone's muse
224 people -
31. live in a foreign country
2,517 people -
32. Stop cutting
632 people -
33. grow a garden
920 people -
34. learn to embroider
124 people -
35. dance in my underwear
11 people -
36. Be a crazy cat lady
68 people -
37. make people think
114 people -
38. Learn how to make my own clothing
1 entry172 people -
39. Be fluent in another language
237 people -
40. yell at a stranger
25 people -
41. Improve my photography skills
576 people -
42. To live instead of exist
11,669 people -
43. have no regrets
1,595 people
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