I'm doing 35 things
is a little out of the question
While I’m a student.
Cancelled for now.
Nathan Coppedge's Life List
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1. Get Paid for my Ideas
4 entries . 31 cheers25 people -
2. Create an Art Movement
7 entries . 20 cheers5 people -
3. find work I'm passionate about
3 entries . 36 cheers939 people -
4. Find goals compatible with a life, even as I have not yet lived
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5. Talk to women
19 entries . 19 cheers7 people -
6. Look for poetry in life instead of poems
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7. live comfortably
3 entries . 6 cheers88 people -
8. Seek the extraordinary, create and dwell amongst the extraordinary
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9. Explain how like life, perpetual motion might be possible without being fully understood
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10. Live just so
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11. find the love of my life
8 entries . 12 cheers1,038 people -
12. explain myself
6 entries . 2 cheers7 people -
13. Write an Archetypal Book
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14. Spend a week in a garden forgetting myself and remembering things that haven't happened
1 entry . 15 cheers2 people -
15. Learn to enjoy being kind and sympathetic
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16. Live above the fog
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17. grow my garden
5 entries . 11 cheers4 people -
18. fine-tune my sense for fine things--sensations, experiences, considered objects, modalities
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19. Become socially adaptive
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20. Make a list of "Worthies" in 43things: Interesting goals and profiles
2 entries . 2 cheers1 person -
21. attend some literary events
3 entries . 11 cheers4 people -
22. living life as an adult to the extent that that's possible
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23. Stay true to my original sense of romance
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24. Say something extremely clever when I'm an old man
2 entries . 9 cheers1 person -
25. learn to relax
2 entries . 10 cheers648 people -
26. Write many little quotations--they're fun
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27. general self maintenance
6 entries . 2 cheers1 person -
28. List short-term goals when it seems useful
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29. succeed on my own terms
3 entries . 13 cheers2 people -
30. Dedicate a series of small poems to easily forgotten blessings, and post them here
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31. expect the unexpected
9 entries . 5 cheers6 people -
32. catharsis
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33. List things related to gratitude
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34. practice t'ai chi
2 entries . 1 cheer120 people -
35. have a wider masculine persona
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person
How I did it
It made me
deep 
How I did it: I found an ad for a subsidized housing complex. It took a year of waiting, but I was unemployed and receiving checks from the government, so it seemed like the right time to move to somewhere cheap.A warning to potential housing prospectors: I still don't have a love life, I still have resentments about my family life (with my parents), and I haven't skyrocketed onto any social scene.However, the benefits of living alone were not entirely… Read how I did it…
It made me
happy / content 
How I did it: Its important that my therapist doesn't convince me to take more medication. Little steps are all I can afford. My life feels okay besides a headacheNothing particularly is going wrong anymore is the kind of nonsense I have to say to get this goal published Read how I did it…
It made me
desire flirts 
How I did it: [gradually, unconsciously, and out of need; also, I need to open a new goal] elaborating, lesbians and blondes have seen my hidden malice since in the first case I feel maliciously repressed (flirting is difficult even normally), and in the second case somehow during a period of weak mindedness I became subject to anti-blonde humor my prejudice towards males has mostly been a case of status and assessments of appropriate or available conf… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
Dedicate a series of small poems to easily forgotten blessings, and post them here (read all 7 entries…)
recover former rules
man leaves
several things, like dice
and tin cans
back on the road
