Draco




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Draco's Life List

  1. 1. get my record expunged
    1 entry . 9 cheers
    3 people
  2. 2. write a memoir
    11 cheers
    349 people
  3. 3. Acknowledge what, if anything, bugged me today, and let it go.
    12 entries . 13 cheers
    2 people
  4. 4. lose weight
    8 entries . 6 cheers
    41,728 people
  5. 5. get in shape
    1 entry . 2 cheers
    10,338 people
  6. 6. thrive
    15 cheers
    19 people
  7. 7. stop drinking
    5 entries . 4 cheers
    1,412 people
  8. 8. figure it all out
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    39 people
  9. 9. survive
    15 cheers
    189 people
  10. 10. overcome anxiety
    2 entries . 18 cheers
    743 people
  11. 11. List 100 things I love about myself
    21 entries . 34 cheers
    41 people
  12. 12. get a masters degree
    2 entries . 11 cheers
    3,042 people
  13. 13. have more fun
    16 cheers
    1,323 people
  14. 14. make a difference
    16 cheers
    7,169 people
  15. 15. be an inspiration
    14 cheers
    218 people
  16. 16. stop homophobia
    29 entries . 36 cheers
    118 people
  17. 17. be thin
    3 cheers
    1,151 people
  18. 18. get a dog
    15 cheers
    4,020 people
  19. 19. write more poetry
    31 entries . 12 cheers
    953 people
  20. 20. create the soundtrack to my life
    16 entries . 8 cheers
    1,888 people
  21. 21. make a list of songs that sound the same . . . to me
    3 entries . 2 cheers
    1 person
  22. 22. buy a brand new car
    4 cheers
    120 people
  23. 23. travel regularly on Amtrak
    1 entry . 11 cheers
    1 person
  24. 24. Design my dream house
    1 entry . 7 cheers
    939 people
  25. 25. expand my vocabulary
    2 entries . 7 cheers
    2,698 people
  26. 26. improve my spelling
    3 cheers
    156 people
  27. 27. get corrective eye surgery or lasik
    2 cheers
    1,087 people
  28. 28. be a hero
    3 cheers
    198 people
  29. 29. start a program to help gay/lesbian teens who get bullied in schools
    1 entry . 5 cheers
    1 person
  30. 30. get a bicycle
    1 cheer
    75 people
  31. 31. master the gluten-free diet
    1 person
  32. 32. make a list of the greatest memories I've ever had
    4 entries . 3 cheers
    3 people
  33. 33. make a list of the best decisions I've made in life
    3 entries . 4 cheers
    1 person
  34. 34. sell my car
    1 cheer
    324 people
  35. 35. find love
    6 cheers
    2,331 people
  36. 36. acknowledge any stressors I encountered today, and size them up.
    5 entries . 3 cheers
    1 person
  37. 37. simplify and declutter
    6 cheers
    41 people
  38. 38. List the initials of all the people who've let me down in life, and explain why.
    1 entry
    1 person
  39. 39. learn to drive stick
    1 cheer
    266 people
  40. 40. drive through the countryside in a convertable with the top down.
    1 cheer
    1 person

How I did it
How to get a better job
It took me
18 months
It made me
Thrilled


How to open a checking account
It took me
1 day
It made me
excited!


Recent entries
Beat my depression (read all 358 entries…)
Identity

So I’m continuing to navigate my way through this thing I’m starting to learn is my quarterlife crisis. So many things have changed that I’m essentially living a whole new life. The thing is, I still feel very much like a college student. It’s been a hard identity to abdicate. And whereas before the goals were so concrete and laid out before me, now my core purpose is so much more abstract. I need a goal, I need to feel ambitious. I think the harsh realities of the real world have caused me to lose a lot of the anything-is-possible, optimistic attitude I had while I was a student. My career aspirations and personal interests are all being challenged now, because my needs are changing, my expectations have changed, and I am changing. I’ve noticed I’m much wiser than I was a year ago. Somehow, the loss of my naivete has been bittersweet. The world seemed so simple and harmless before; now it doesn’t necessarily seem worse. . . just with every decision I make, there is a whole lot more to consider in than I ever had realized.
Sometimes I miss the simplicity I remember. In terms of problem solving, I definitely think much more completely now, and I realize that adulthood is a lot of hard work. With the great freedom comes great responsibility.



Beat my depression (read all 358 entries…)
Still working.

I’m not sure what my peers from my graduating class are doing with their lives, because I avoid Facebook like the plague. But if they aren’t getting married and starting families, I wonder what they’re doing. I feel like I’ve been essentially living to work. My social life was much more colorful and active in college. Since then, it seems like nothing’s left in life except to somehow find a way to quickly procreate to make the miserably mundane 9 to 5 worthwhile. I don’t really see romance or children in my near future, so it’s going to be interesting to see what I end up doing with myself. For now I’m just trying to build a reputation for myself at work. Besides that, I clean and decorate my apartment in my spare time, and try new recipies in the kitchen. It’s a pretty peaceful, quiet existence. Not the most exciting life, but for now it is what it is. I want to figure out how to have more fun and be more social, but I don’t know how to make new friends.

My dream life would have me going on late night trips to New York City to drink and party, or random overnight stays in Atlantic City over the weekend. How fun it would be to know people all over and be able to take on such adventures. I’d love that. That’s what I want in my life: spontaneity.



create the soundtrack to my life (read all 16 entries…)
Kelly Clarkson

“Catch My Breath”

I don’t wanna be left behind
Distance was a friend of mine
Catching breath in a web of lies
I’ve spent most of my life
Riding waves, playing acrobat
Shadowboxing the other half
Learning how to react
I’ve spent most of my time

Catching my breath, letting it go,
turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right
Catch my breath,
no one can hold me back, I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath,
won’t let them get me down, it’s all so simple now

Addicted to the love I found
Heavy heart, now a weightless cloud
Making time for the ones that count
I’ll spend the rest of my time
Laughing hard with the windows down
Leaving footprints all over town
Keeping faith kinda comes around
I’ll spent the rest of my life

Catching my breath, letting it go,
turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right
Catch my breath,
no one can hold me back, I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath,
won’t let them get me down, it’s all so simple now

You help me see the beauty
in everything
Catching my breath, letting it go,
turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right

Catching my breath, letting it go,
turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told what’s supposed to be right
Catch my breath!
Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,
I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath,
won’t let them get me down, it’s all so simple now
(it’s all so simple now!)

Catching my breath, letting it go,
turning my cheek for the sake of the show
Now that you know, this is my life,
I won’t be told it’s supposed to be right
Catch my breath!
Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,
I ain’t got time for that
Catch my breath
Catch my breath, won’t let them get me down,
it’s all so simple now



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