I'm doing 43 things
I don't mean in a suicidal way
17 months ago
because there are so many things worth living for
Alexis Dean's Life List
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1. create a wallpaper clock
1 person -
2. eat creme brulee until I throw up
1 person -
3. be Charlie Bartlett
1 person -
4. find my dream
8 people -
5. follow every rainbow
1 person -
6. fjord every stream
1 person -
7. climb every mountain
1 cheer5 people -
8. watch movies and eat popcorn and sit on the couch until our eyes droop and our stomachs blow up and the couch erodes into dust
1 person -
9. read all day
1 cheer3 people -
10. be decadent, and broadcast my desire to be decadent to several thousand people through an online medium
1 person -
11. vent
8 people -
12. grow fruit and vegies
2 people -
13. have no wants, only needs.
1 person -
14. learn the guitar and play you love songs
1 person -
15. be more zen
87 people -
16. stop washing my hair
55 people -
17. give
54 people -
18. live without superfluous redundancies
1 person -
19. grow old with you
2 people -
20. own or work on a farm
1 person -
21. do screenprinting
1 person -
22. sew my own "green bags"
1 person -
23. knit a scarf
517 people -
24. be less selfish
1 cheer561 people -
25. spend less time on the internet
980 people -
26. be me
384 people -
27. live in a happier world
1 person -
28. have beautiful, happy children
1 person -
29. start a business
2,092 people -
30. write a book
26,168 people -
31. move out
3,089 people -
32. escape the world
1 entry2 people -
33. learn to cook
8,212 people -
34. try makeup
2 people -
35. make a quilt
1,102 people -
36. design a crossword/sudoku-style game
1 person -
37. create a web2.0 application
2 people -
38. teach
806 people -
39. understand
243 people -
40. act
1,156 people -
41. eat whale meat. haha
1 person -
42. be a little bit more feminine
1 cheer1 person -
43. learn to speak mandarin properly
1 person
How I did it
It made me
free! 
How I did it: finished the first year -- an important milestone so that I knew I COULD do it, but just didn't want to!in making the decision, I talked to people's whose opinions mattered to me, researched what the alternatives were, and had a plan in moving forward: what was the next thing to do? what job was I going to find? what temporal deadline would I give myself?also, I tried not to burn all my bridges, or yell at anyone, or blame anyone else -- … Read how I did it…
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