I'm doing 37 things
我識學中文
I’m only in Chinese 101, though. Some helpful websites are zhongwen.com and cojak.org
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1. make a difference
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2. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people
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3. write a novel
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4. read the quran
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5. fall in love again, and, for a change, actually be loved back, while I'm at that
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6. study wicca and witchcraft
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7. Read all the books in my "must read" pile
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8. move out of state
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9. Memorize Scripture
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10. Watch all of Hayao Miyazaki's films
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11. be more compassionate
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12. learn Tai Chi
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13. learn falun gong
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14. become less enraged at instances of stupidity
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15. learn chinese
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16. Obtain a Masters of Divinity (M.Div.)
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17. try geocaching
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18. spend an entire day watching the extended version of all three Lord of the Rings movies back-to-back-to-back
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19. Floss Every Day
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20. Research my genealogy
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21. exercise regularly
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22. make a smaller ecological footprint
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23. watch the IMDB.com Top 250 movies
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24. Read the Book of Mormon
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25. improve my German
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26. Send a postcard to Postsecret
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27. graduate from college
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28. plant a tree
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29. get tested for ADD
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30. go to burning man
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31. Watch "The Wizard of Oz" at the same time as listening to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"
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32. Read the entire Bible
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33. spend more time with my grandparents
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34. learn esperanto
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35. get a dog
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36. practice Franklin's 13 virtues
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37. become a unitarian universalist minister
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Recent entries
And I’m not sure I can really communicate it. I just said to myself if I think I’m happy, then I am. It might sound like lying to yourself, but if you get in the habit of thinking in a positive, happy frame of mind it will come naturally after awhile.
I think one thing holding me back for so long was I always needed some prerequisite to be happy. I’ll be happy as soon as _. The problem is there’s always something else to get, to become, to do. But now I know I can be happy before, during, after, and even if these things never come to pass.
I read aloud Ecclesiastes in its entirety to a Christian friend the other day. I knew I liked it, but I had forgotten why until then. There is so much wisdom in it. I think I’d like to memorize it all.
Incidentally, that’s just what the protaganist of Fahrenheit 451 did.
