I'm doing 42 things
Empress
3 months ago
I’m almost done reading Empress by Shan Sa
sugabelly's Life List
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1. Explore Life
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2. Make new friends in different countries
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3. Make five new close friends
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4. Make a million Naira
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5. Save $2000
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6. Go to Mass every Sunday for a year
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7. pray everyday
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8. write a book
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9. cross the kalahari
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10. Speak igbo more
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11. Learn to drive
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12. Buy a Bentley
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13. Stop being Afraid
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14. Explore New York City
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15. Fall in love
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16. Find my soulmate
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17. criticize less
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18. Learn to SCUBA dive
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19. Sail somewhere
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20. Own a boat
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21. cross the sahara
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22. visit Mali
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23. Plant a garden
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24. Be punctual
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25. Eat Healthily
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26. Exercise Everyday for a year
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27. Lose 125 Pounds
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28. Be kinder
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29. Love myself
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30. Forgive my Father
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31. Grow my business
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32. Start a second company
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33. Build my Mom a house
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34. visit Ghana
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35. visit Ethiopia
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36. live in Egypt
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37. live in Barcelona
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38. live in Spain
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39. live in Paris
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40. live in Morocco
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41. Read 100 New books
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42. Forgive myself
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How I did it
It made me
Liberated 
How I did it: I cried a lot. I went through everything that had happened between us and for the first time I was completely honest with myself. I acknowledged the things I did that contributed to his actions and his behaviour towards me and once I allowed myself to see the whole picture and not just my side of the story I saw that I had done wrong too. Sure, what he did and didn't do hurt me terribly, but he's only human and so am I. I had to see how B… Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Practice
9 months ago
I pretty speak rapid-fire Igbo every day now. Talking to my grandmother helps a lot because I can speak Igbo with her, but I’m still having a lot of problems expressing more modern scenarios in Igbo. There’s a dearth of suitable vocabulary to express my experiences, and it’s frustrating. I’m thinking of setting up a commission to formulate new Igbo words. Our language is stagnating since we don’t make any new words. We can’t have this. I would like to speak Igbo without a single English word included. Apart from that little problem, my progress is quite pleasing.
Untitled
12 months ago
Wow, I said I was going to start tomorrow… two months ago. I have only managed to go once. I do feel very ashamed of myself.
