I'm doing 28 things
Too bad I didn’t work on this BEFORE signing up for a semester abroad… Hopefully spending four months in Madrid will help.
stargirl0's Life List
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1. be happy
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2. live simply
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3. remember that I am free and alive
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4. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
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5. dance more
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6. Learn to fly
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7. live in the woods
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8. play strip poker with giant robots
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9. Learn to pick locks
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10. Learn to knit
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11. learn to swing dance
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12. learn to walk in heels
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13. save the world
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14. pet a walrus for many minutes
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15. see a gorilla
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16. be proud of what I create
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17. send more snail mail
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18. find beautiful things
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19. be a good friend
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20. post quotes from my dreams
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21. Keep a journal
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22. weigh 125 pounds
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23. get better grades
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24. travel cross country
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25. hug a giant sequoia tree
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26. talk to strangers
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27. get a car
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28. become fluent in spanish
1 entry . 1 cheer2,487 people
How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: We began our conversation as a sort of exercise in hope - the hope that we would get through the winter and escape somewhere come spring. We looked at pictures of graffiti on the internet and read about German architects. One thing led to another until suddenly one day we were on a plane, flying through the night to Scandinavia. We moved through foreign countries in absolute innocence, looking for beauty and real places. When we were mist… Read how I did it…
It made me
exult.
How I did it: Hold in your mind's eye the image of your ideal Jesus. Perhaps He is a disco devotee, eating ice cream, selling insurance, an angry nun, or Sylvester Stalone. Contemplating your ideal Jesus, begin to sketch His outline. Do not neglect to include the necessary disco ball, good humor wrapper, pie chart, ruler, or boxing gloves. Then, taking great care and caution, insert a stylin' red cruiser between the legs of Ideal Jesus (tm). … Read how I did it…
It made me
extravagant. 
How I did it: Every day is a new chance to fall in love with people and their potential. People move around in smooth arcs or spiky arcs with smooth or spiky minds, interfacing or bouncing or becoming enmeshed, and the dances they do are as beautiful as the dances done by robins or bumblebees or tulips. People wear jackets with brass buttons, and people wear checkered pink and tan blazers, and people wear pin striped shorts, and people wear grins. Peop… Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I’ve been waiting for this since my first Spanish class in, like, seventh grade, and I leave for Madrid on Friday. So overwhelmed, so happy, so scared of being unable to communicate. Forty eight hours until the adventure begins!
I’ve been offering to do people favors, e.g. give them rides, and inviting them places, and trying to deepen acquaintanceships by staying in touch and making plans.
I’m trying!
