I'm doing 38 things
Harsh as it may sound, it was my family who bullied me to fulfill this goal. Not that they knew it was a goal, but just getting them off of my back made it so. I was a teenager with a very insecure posture. To figure out how to straighten my back properly, I thought of the military, of how the superiors would walk in front of the line of new recruits and bully them – suck that belly in, hold that chin up, stand tall and proud. After years of determination, I believe I know have a decent posture without having to put effort into it anymore.
zachriel's Life List
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1. read all the books I haven't read that are sitting on my bookshelf
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2. carpe diem
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3. study abroad
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4. be published
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5. show Jason the ocean
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6. teach Jason how to swim
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7. Learn to let go, and hold on when it matters
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8. Learn C/C++
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9. write the story of my life
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10. get a tattoo
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11. Live in another country
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12. Send a message in a bottle
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13. stop hating
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14. Literacy Volunteer - help someone learn to read
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15. Donate blood
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16. gain weight
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17. see an active volcano
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18. build a treehouse
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19. walk through europe
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20. befriend someone I don't like
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21. teach
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22. Get up when my alarm goes off
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23. learn to design clothes
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24. improve my memory
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25. spend more time with my family
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26. hack into someone's computer
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27. Start making homemade paper
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28. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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29. learn to write with my left hand
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30. Make new local friends
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31. be a mother
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32. change someone's life for the better
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33. live in the moment
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34. stop wasting time
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35. Take one picture a day as a way to document my life
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36. learn all the languages
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37. Have better handwriting
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38. Do something new every month
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How I did it
It made me
confident 
How I did it: Harsh as it may sound, it was my family who bullied me to fulfill this goal. Not that they knew it was a goal, but just getting them off of my back made it so. I was a teenager with a very insecure posture. To figure out how to straighten my back properly, I thought of the military, of how the superiors would walk in front of the line of new recruits and bully them – suck that belly in, hold that chin up, stand tall and proud. Afte… Read how I did it…
It made me
scared 
How I did it: I picked up an old, used copy of a paperback volume and started reading. It was difficult at times to remember that the real world is not quite as bad as in the book, but one page at a time I read my way through it and when the last page was read I was once again back in the current safety of the real world. Read how I did it…
It made me
scared
How I did it: I picked up an old, used copy of a paperback volume and started reading. It was difficult at times to remember that the real world is not quite as bad as in the book, but one page at a time I read my way through it and when the last page was read I was once again back in the current safety of the real world. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
I would like to travel the world, but all the bad stuff coming out of cars, trains and planes would be bad for the planet. So as a travelling method I figured why not walk, as they did long, long ago?
All I need to get started is to figure out how far I walk in one day, how much you need to eat while walking, and when I would have enough free time to do such a thing. It would also be good to know how much to pack (do you need a tent, or would you find a generous soul to borrow a bed every night?).
It doesn’t really have to be through Europe either, but as I currently live in Sweden it’d be a good place to start.
It is probably impossible to end all the injustice around the world, but if I was to stop hating, the world would be one step closer. If I were to stop hating, maybe I would be able to affect my friends to stop hating, and they would affect their friends and so on and so forth. In the long run it’d be a huge step for the world.
