Monday, July 23, 2012

What I Want

I want to... - Sleep under the stars - Run barefoot outside in a heavy snow storm wearing only a tank top and shorts - Jump in puddles - Climb trees - Climb mountains - Explore forests and oceans - Study art history and architecture - Study literature and languages - Eat healthier and exercise regularly - Do yoga and meditate regularly - Take a sketchbook with me everywhere - Hug trees - Touch the leaves on the trees and flower petals - Walk barefoot along the beach - Stare at the moon - Tell stories around a campire - Take photographs of everything I find beautiful - Stay up all night playing video games - Build a fort with chairs, pillows, and blankets and sleep in it - insist on reading children's books to a sick friend - Buy many many many more books - Fill entire notebooks with stream of consciousness writings - Go on regular roadtrips - Believe in hugging and kissing - Write anonymous letters to complete strangers - Have a movie marathon - Spend more time around horses simply to feel their velvety lips against my hand when I feed them - Share every thought in my head no matter how random or ridiculous it may be - Cry when I need to - Throw parties for the hell of it - Take more bubble baths - Celebrate my favorite author's birthdays - Have a picnic in a tree - Make collages - Buy a nerf gun - Take a floral design class - Buy a harmonica and annoy the hell out of everyone while attempting to play it - Learn to play the ukelele - Go to a toy store and play with everything - Go to an aquarium - Always wear bright colored socks - Start a nature journal - collect leaves, sketch plants, etc - Create my own recipe book - Cook more, eat less fast food - Practice calligraphy - Practice embroidery stitches - Start doing henna tattoos - Travel the world - Stop apologizing for everything - Be daring enough to allow someone to get close to me - drop every wall and risk the rejection and humiliation - Speak up when staying silent would cause more harm than good - be assertive and bitchy when necessary :) - Take someone to Yellowstone for their first time - Realize that making mistakes is normal and striving for perfection is completely unrealistic - Gain control over my anxiety, so that fear doesnt control everything in my life - Travel so far away by myself that Im no longer afraid of not coming back

1 comment:

  1. this is amazing Jo
    I love it. just seeing it all written, one after another.
    I might have to *borrow* it for a future post!!:)
    (and credit/link you) ... it's a real cut -out-and-keep
    (on you) thing. amazing.

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