I am my own hero. I just recently realized.
TheNakedEye's Life List
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1. Do what I really want in my heart, no matter how far out of my comfort zone it is. Trust life to work itself out.
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2. Never do anything less than my best.
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3. Never let another person be my constant.
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4. Stop worrying
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5. Stop trying to control everything
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6. To live instead of exist
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7. Work at a restaurant where I can go to the farmers market daily to hand-pick fresh product.
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8. Apprentice under Thomas Keller.
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9. Learn to trust, and trust wisely
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10. Take risks without fear
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11. Go on a roadtrip across the USA
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12. Have patience
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13. Improve my posture
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14. Stop apologizing for being me.
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15. Be less of a perfectionist
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16. Talk to myself like a friend instead of a critical bitch
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17. learn self-defense
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18. Learn how to whistle loudly without using my fingers
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19. Finish what I start
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20. Try to decide if I have faith or religion and what I have faith or religion in.
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21. Go to Culinary School
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22. figure out my career goals
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23. Scream at the top of my lungs into an Abyss
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24. improve my public speaking skills
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25. learn Latin
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26. learn how to take pictures
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27. Read every book on my list
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28. share a kiss on a ferris wheel
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29. learn to lip read
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30. Learn to pick locks
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31. see the northern lights
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32. visit New Zealand
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33. watch the IMDB.com Top 250 movies
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34. receive a letter from Hogwarts apologizing for the late owl but informing me that i am actually a wizard.
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35. Write my name in wet cement
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To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair, and to try to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he’s forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.
I gave up on this ages ago, and when I opened my list today to add something else to my list, I saw it in my “I give up” list and realized that I wrote something that I’m terribly proud of. My assignment for my english final was to choose three songs that I relate to and to explain why they are important to me. I loved writing that paper, and I feel so much more connected to the people that I love, because of it.
