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
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this is amazing Jo
ReplyDeleteI 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.