I'm doing 13 things
Just remember, even if you don't get the book,
3 years ago
DONT PANIC.
Get a towel.
cydonian's Life List
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1. find a job that I love
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2. go to grad school
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3. better manage my free time.
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4. finish the story i'm currently writing
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5. Learn Sanskrit
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6. write a book
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7. lose weight
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8. meditate every day
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9. dance without being self-conscious
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10. get published
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11. learn playing guitar
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12. Send handwritten letters to someone every day for a month
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13. Tango in Buenos Aires
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Recent entries
Your mileage may vary,
3 years ago
but I ended up finding out that my great-great-great grandfather was some sort of a minor royalty in some principality on India’s east coast and that, there’s a forest named after my family’s (rather distinctive) surname.
Alas, post-colonial, democratic India demands either we descendants make our own money, or continue living in this vast, sprawling urban jungle in central India. Still, rather cool seeing your surname in a decrepit, disused ancient temple; felt straight out of Indiana Jones, among other things.
.. those who have bungy-jumped, and those who haven’t.
Essentially, those five seconds on the plank were the longest of my life, mostly because all of my worst nightmares, and worst fears simultaneously came to life.
I had to eventually ask the instructor to push me. The rest, as they say, is history.
