1) Family
2) The Shirley Girlies
3) The Crew
4) Seeing someone smile and knowing it’s because of me
5) Helping someone through a problem
6) Dancing to 90’s classics in the Krazyhouse
7) Taking a good photograph
8) Listening to music that I connect with
9) Dancing like a crazy person to music when there’s no one else in the house
10) Singing like a crazy person to music when there’s no one else in the house
11) Getting a compliment
12) Writing
13) Watching a Tarantino film
14) Getting in at 4 in the morning and finding something good on TV
15) Breathing in when there’s nothing weighing me down
16) Knowing I have people to worry about, and to worry about me
17) Hearing a band for the first time and liking them
18) Reminiscing with friends
19) Walking a new route
20) Thinking about the future
21) Knowing that one day I’m going to fall in love
22) Ben and Jerry’s
23) Jimmy Eat World
24) Getting good grades
25) Baking
26) Christmas
27) Fridays
28) Finishing something I’ve been meaning to do for a while
29) Walking bare foot in public (on the beach, in town etc)
30) Chocolate
31) Going shopping and having loads of bags
32) Some of the views in the Lakes that make me feel tiny
33) Smiling at a randomer in the street and them smiling back
34) Paying off a debt
35) Getting all dressed up
36) Moments of genuine faith in God
37) Looking at the clock and realising I’ve been chatting to this person for hours without noticing
38) Walking in the pouring rain
39) Looking through my work from primary school
40) Finding the perfect thing in a sale
41) Getting really into a book
42) The feeling of waking up healthy after being really ill
43) Hitting it off with someone new
44) First Kisses
45) Waking up and realising I have 30 more minutes before I need to get up
46) Disney movies
47) Looking through old photos
48) Giving someone a gift that I’ve spent ages thinking of and trying to find, and knowing they’ll love it
49) Coming up with a brilliant idea
50) Liverpool
51) Getting warm after being out in the cold
52) The Irish accent
53) The thought that the world is my lobster!
54) Jeff Buckley’s ‘Hallelujah’
55) Details
56) A good hug
57) Pyjama socks
58) Vivid rainbows
59) Being happy with what I see in the mirror
60) Overcoming the blips
61) Realising I can do it alone
62) Painting my nails
63) Finding that fiver I put in my pocket last time I wore this jacket
64) A really romantic scene in a movie
65) Jokes
66) Finding the silver lining in something bad
67) Being spontaneous
68) Realising that that event I was dreading is quite a lot of fun!
69) Finding someone to talk to when I can’t sleep, and realising I’m not the only person in the world that’s awake
70) Buying a Big Issue
71) Understanding something difficult in maths
72) Personally written letters or emails
73) Hearing a quote from someone influential that speaks to my cause
74) Feeling that genuine twist of inspiration
75) Winter, when it goes dark early in the evening
76) My room
77) Finding someone I know when I thought I was all alone
78) Eating out
79) Summer holidays, especially after months of working every hour God sends for exams
80) Making people laugh
81) When it all works out
82) Finding that person you know you can tell anything to
83) When I realise that the reason people are looking at me funny is because I’m grinning uncontrollably for no reason, just an un)explainable happiness
84) Café 23 with the girlies
85) Deep conversations
86) Seeing a landmark I’ve always wanted to and it being better than I imagined
87) Giving up something that I wanted to make someone else happier
88) My pink pig
89) Drawing
90) Knowing I’m doing the right thing, despite what everyone might say
91) Being the one who believes wholeheartedly in a friends dream
92) Overcoming something due to my own strength of character
93) Laughing at something no one else finds amusing
94) Seeing it all go right at last for someone I know deserves it
95) Hearing of inventive proposals- I love the ways people promise their lives to one another!
96) Parties
97) Thinking about the bad times whilst experiencing the good, and knowing it always works out
98) Real life romance
99) The phrase ‘I love you’
100) Looking at this list
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1. make a difference
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2. do something crazy
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3. become a published writer
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4. Visit all the major landmarks in America
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5. see the northern lights
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6. work harder
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7. save a life
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8. see the pyramids
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9. travel to every continent
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10. volunteer in Africa
547 people -
11. Get married
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12. Get a job
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13. Be more altruistic
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14. leave little messages, quotations,pieces of art etc. for strangers to find
179 people -
15. Spread the word that "door hinge," in fact, rhymes with orange - kind of.
61 people -
16. Get 3 B's in my A levels so i can go to Liverpool University
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17. Graduate from university
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18. stand up for what i believe in
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19. Give blood
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20. watch all movies on AFI's 100 Best movies list
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21. Get a tattoo
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22. Kiss in the rain
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23. Go diving at the great barrier reef
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24. Learn to play the drums
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25. create the soundtrack to my life
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26. do 3 nice things every day...because I remember hearing somewhere that maybe all the world's problems could be solved if everyone did 3 nice things a day
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27. Make one person smile everyday
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28. go to dublin
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29. get my driver's license
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30. Read 'The Catcher in the Rye'
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How I did it: i met a boy, called Mathew, and i suppose that's all the active 'doing' there was to it. Oh, and letting myself be open, if that counts. I've been with people before but always been worried about letting myself get hurt, or becoming one of the people i've always thought of as pathetic, those girls who can't live without someone. But with him it was different, so I figured it was about time I let go of inhibitions and just became fully par… Read how I did it…
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1) Family
2) Shirley Girls
3) The Crew
4) Seeing someone smile and knowing it’s because of me
5) Helping someone through a problem
6) Getting good grades
7) Dancing to 90’s classics in the Krazyhouse
8) Taking a good photograph
9) Listening to music that I connect with
10) Dancing like a crazy person to music when there’s no one else in the house
11) Singing like a crazy person to music when there’s no one else in the house




