cydonian




I'm doing 13 things
 

cydonian's Life List

  1. 1. find a job that I love
    401 people
  2. 2. go to grad school
    956 people
  3. 3. better manage my free time.
    1 person
  4. 4. finish the story i'm currently writing
    20 people
  5. 5. Learn Sanskrit
    255 people
  6. 6. write a book
    24,971 people
  7. 7. lose weight
    35,275 people
  8. 8. meditate every day
    629 people
  9. 9. dance without being self-conscious
    123 people
  10. 10. get published
    1,936 people
  11. 11. learn playing guitar
    18 people
  12. 12. Send handwritten letters to someone every day for a month
    28 people
  13. 13. Tango in Buenos Aires
    55 people
Recent entries
Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Just remember, even if you don't get the book, 3 years ago

DONT PANIC.

Get a towel.



Research my genealogy
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.



go bungee jumping
Ultimately, there are only two types of people out there. 3 years ago

.. 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.




 

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