I'm doing 38 things
Long ago, I was wounded. I lived
to revenge myself
against my father, not
for what he was—
for what I was: from the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.
I love this poem.
xix's Life List
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1. make a wall-sized painting
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2. live passionately
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3. start flossing
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4. challenge myself more
2 cheers42 people -
5. win the lottery
3,998 people -
6. love my body
4 cheers1,154 people -
7. write a play
664 people -
8. embrace adventure
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9. stretch every day
575 people -
10. make new resolutions every day
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11. Finish what I start
4,068 people -
12. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
21,231 people -
13. Start a company that changes the world.
39 people -
14. Read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
530 people -
15. list 43 things I like about myself
1 cheer129 people -
16. change someone's life
1,451 people -
17. volunteer at an animal shelter
2 cheers696 people -
18. Learn to fly
2,274 people -
19. make a paper crane
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20. do 43 things and then some
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21. learn photography
2,892 people -
22. dance all night and then dance some more
2 cheers104 people -
23. become a magazine editor
2 cheers189 people -
24. write a novel
1 entry . 1 cheer11,080 people -
25. run a marathon
2 cheers12,467 people -
26. go abroad
2 cheers206 people -
27. read all of shakespeare
1 entry113 people -
28. act
1,248 people -
29. learn another language
4 cheers4,171 people -
30. meet stephen colbert
43 people -
31. get a cat
2 cheers899 people -
32. see my name in lights
33 people -
33. collect shells on the beach
2 people -
34. grow a garden
1 cheer920 people -
35. find love
2 entries2,275 people -
36. drink more water
1 cheer20,324 people -
37. live in the city
142 people -
38. create something beautiful
532 people
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Each of us, I firmly believe, is propelled through life by a restless, inexhaustible need for affection. Why else do we trudge off to work every morning, or withhold farts, or decorate our bodies with precious gems, or attend church, or smile at strangers, or pluck out body hair, or send valentines, or glance into mirrors, or forgive, or try to forgive, or gnash our teeth at betrayal, or pray, or promise, or any of a trillion large and small behaviors that constitute the totality of the human trial on this planet?
All for love.
All to be loved.
