Rather than by having your car die in the middle of the road.
Ahem.
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meet wikipedia's notability standards
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1 person |
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be a Supreme Court justice
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7 people |
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solve one of the 'Millenium problems'
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2 people |
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think better
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6 people |
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sing the sublime in the vernacular
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1 person |
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put a skeleton nightlight in the closet
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1 person |
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get off this planet!
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7 people |
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Earn a doctoral degree
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23 people |
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learn to navigate by the stars
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57 people |
| 10. |
make a crop circle
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41 people |
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sell things on etsy
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155 people |
| 12. |
learn to raise one eyebrow
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257 people |
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experience weightlessness
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158 people |
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be photographed by the sartorialist
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4 people |
| 15. |
learn to speak another language fluently
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175 people |
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sign with a gorilla or chimp
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2 people |
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Publish a translation
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2 people |
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have sex in a confessional.
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2 people |
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Make a kite
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42 people |
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start a school
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102 people |
| 21. |
Learn to play the guitar
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12,667 people |
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live on every continent
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41 people |
| 23. |
learn the thriller dance
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2,719 people |
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Read ALL of Joyce's Ulysses
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3 people |
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See a total solar eclipse
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263 people |
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write my screenplay.
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21 people |
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be a milf
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31 people |
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host a radio show
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97 people |
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improve my piano skills
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64 people |
| 30. |
have sex on a piano
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5 people |
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live forever
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766 people |
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meet deadlines
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31 people |
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smuggle myself overnight at the library
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2 people |
| 34. |
play strip poker
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1,483 people |
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learn to skip stones
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12 people |
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pose nude for art classes
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2 people |
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lend money to an entrepreneur on Kiva
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2 people |
| 38. |
build a treehouse
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391 people |
| 39. |
write (and illustrate?) a collection of highbrow erotica that would make Anaïs Nin proud/ blush
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1 person |
| 40. |
Evolve discreetly into a 1950s domestic goddess
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52 people |
| 41. |
Complete the monopoly board pub crawl
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15 people |
| 42. |
put a message in a bottle and leave it in a public toilet
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27 people |
| 43. |
make a lasting positive contribution to the world
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2 people |
Rather than by having your car die in the middle of the road.
Ahem.
Live according to my thoughts, values, and opinions. Do not carelessly mimic disagreeable traits of others with whom I have frequent contact (e.g. parents, suburbia). There are enough monsters around me without me becoming one too.
My parents do a lot of things that I don’t like. Much to my dismay, however, I often find myself doing and saying things that they do and say, things of which I consciously disapprove, and that do not reflect my own opinions and values.
Case in point: I like to consider myself a cautious optimist, while my mother frequently refers to the worst possible scenario as if it were an inevitable conclusion (which often becomes a self-fulfilled prophecy).Unfortunately, given my horrible tendency toward mindless imitation, her negativity tends to slip out of my mouth. This is utterly unacceptable.
My parents are not the only ones whose bad habits I adopt when I’m not paying attention, though they are the key culprits.
I need to act more sentiently.
I need to pay attention to what I’m doing.
I need to stop being so sensitive to disapproval. I need to mean it when I decide not to give a shit about what you think.
I need to be brave enough and vigilant enough not to emulate things that disgust me.
I need to be specifically vigilant against:
-Passive-aggressive guilt mongering/ affected, self-indulgent martyrdom
-Insinuated disapproval of those who do not conform to rigid gender expectations
-Unwarranted pessimism/ dour-casting
-Blaming others when it’s not their fault
-Engaging in irrational, paranoid hygienic rituals and resenting those who don’t
-Generalizing arrogantly/ stereotyping without disclaimers
-Letting parental disapproval get to me when I disagree with their rationale (or lack thereof) for it, and allowing this to spoil what I would otherwise enjoy
-Obsessing over aesthetics and physical appearance
-Disregard for aesthetics and physical appearance
-Sexual conservatism/ acting embarrassed about having had sex (I’m glad I did and I’d do it again, and it’s nothing to fucking be ashamed of)