I'm doing 38 things
chertre's Life List
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1. lose 5 lbs
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2. practice mindfulness
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3. eat like a french woman
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4. find the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake
1 person -
5. bake a perfect souffle
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6. love myself
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7. read a book a week
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8. read Wuthering Heights
36 people -
9. rent an apartment in Paris
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10. become a morning person.
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11. exercise daily
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12. meditate daily
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13. overcome depression
444 people -
14. adopt a homeless dog
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15. run on the beach for the sheer joy of it
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16. go on a roadtrip with no predetermined destination
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17. backpack across south america
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18. tell someone how much i love them
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19. see tori amos in concert
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20. get braces
587 people -
21. pay off my student loans
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22. plant a tree
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23. buy a new laptop
180 people -
24. buy a nice, new digital camera
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25. learn photography
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26. drink absinthe (and see the "tiny green fairy")
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27. learn an instrument
228 people -
28. get rid of things I don't need
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29. be more selfless
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30. volunteer overseas
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31. complete my reading list
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32. complete my movie list
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33. memorize emily dickinson
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34. make a painting
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35. write a novel
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36. accept death
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37. have a tattoo
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38. stop using splenda
4 people
How I did it: I think the main thing to realize is that everyone is more alike than different, and that everyone experiences pain. Some experience it short-term (hunger or thirst... getting sick... a broken heart), others long-term (mental illness, being handicapped). And there is also the kind of suffering that comes from being human, such as aging.Your mind is either at peace or it is not-- many of our actions stem from this. If you are content with … Read how I did it…
How I did it: In middle school I decided I'd learn this and over a period of a month or two I would occasionally practice in front of the mirror. All it takes is really practicing your brow muscle/s in front of a mirror.EDIT: Alright, so I realized this could have been more detailed! Basically, first decide which brow you want to learn to raise (I'm right-handed and learned to raise my left brow, for whatever reason at the time). In front of a mirror, … Read how I did it…
How I did it: I think I fell in love with the idea of Paris when I was fourteen or so and started picking up calendars and notebooks with pictures of this lovely city. When I had to decide between learning French or Spanish in high school, I decided on French because I thought, "Well, here's a language I'll encounter in history and literature!" But the language also connected me to French culture, especially movies, whose setting was consistently Paris… Read how I did it…
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