I’d like to think I’d do anything for my friends. I don’t have a lot of friends, but the ones I do have I like to think they know I’d always be there for them.
I need to be better about keeping in touch with friends I haven’t seen in a while. Being a friend is more than being there in a crisis or when asked. It is being there often and really being there for each other. I want to be more like that.
Feb 12, 2007, 04:57PM PST | 0 comments
I’ve always been against tattoos. Not on others, but for myself…
If I was to get a tattoo two years ago, it would have had no meaning, decorational at best. I’m also disgracefully bad at making decisions and very fickle, anything I picked I would have hated a month later.
When my younger brother got a tattoo at the age of 20, I tried to talk him out of it. He didn’t listen and got it anyways. I’m glad he got the chance because he was killed in Afganistan two months later while serving with the Marines.
Now a tattoo would have meaning for me. A way of connecting with him and memoralizing him as well. I just don’t know what get and where to put it. I’m hoping that it will come to me and will just feel “right”.
Feb 12, 2007, 04:21PM PST | 1 comment
My little brother was killed one year ago this past Friday while serving in Afghanistan with the Marines. He was only 20 and my best friend.
I’ve been struggling for this year over what has happened and have been trying to find a way for me to honor his life. Nothing seems to be enough, no matter what I think of. What did stand out however was running a marathon.
It has always been something I’ve wanted to do “some day” but the distance and difficulty has always kept me away. Not anymore, I’ll be running the Chicago Marathon in October for Matt. I am going to be running for a charity (yet to be determined) that supports a cause Matt cared about. Probably something related to helping children overseas since he was very touched by them during his short time over there. He never asked for things for himself when care packages were sent – just jolly ranchers and pens for them to give to the children.
I am going to run this marathon not because I want to, but because I have to. For you Matt.
Feb 12, 2007, 03:47AM PST | 6 cheers | 1 comment
I'm doing 15 things
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verbaiche wants to Read 1,000 books
stop hating myself
own a home
Have a best friend.
Lose 10 pounds and keep it off.
get in shape
run a marathon
Make my room *MY* room
Learn how to cook everything from scratch
Record an album
go to Heaven
learn french
go to Germany
emilija2 wants to be happy
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Visit Japan
be closer to nature
be more compassionate
Go on a road trip
give up alcohol
shop thrift stores, garage sales, farmer's markets, vintage stores.
show my family how much i love them
understand why men do what men do
throw things away
climb a fourteener
eat healthy
write a novel
