Monday, June 27, 2005
It’s a bandwagon—jump on!
For some reason, even though I technically discovered 43 Things before Kella, it wasn’t until she and Kristin signed up that I decided I would do it, too. (Perhaps one of my 43 things should be “Think for myself.”) However, even after those two lovely ladies signed up, I had my doubts. I feared that my list would just be a regurgitation of my “30 Things to Do Before I’m 30” list. Of course, then I remembered that, because I had promised myself not to look at said list again before my 30th birthday (as it was more of an idea of where I wanted my life to be at that time rather than a list of things I had to check off as I did them), I didn’t remember half of the things I had put on it. Plus, I didn't have anything better to do with myself last night.
Some of the things on my list may be accomplished this week (hopefully #11, which I’ve been trying to do for about a month now), some may not be accomplished for years, and, let’s face it, some may not be accomplished at all. Some may be deleted, and more will surely be added. (I’m currently five short of the magic number.) But it’s kind of inspiring to have them all written down in this manner, serving as a constant reminder not to get lazy and push most of these things aside. And it’s nice having people I don’t know cheering me on (even though only one person has done so thus far). And I suppose I can learn to live with the fact that there’s no way to make the entire list uniform in capitalization and punctuation because that seems to be determined by the first person who marked the goal down.
I think I just figured out what #39 should be.
For some reason, even though I technically discovered 43 Things before Kella, it wasn’t until she and Kristin signed up that I decided I would do it, too. (Perhaps one of my 43 things should be “Think for myself.”) However, even after those two lovely ladies signed up, I had my doubts. I feared that my list would just be a regurgitation of my “30 Things to Do Before I’m 30” list. Of course, then I remembered that, because I had promised myself not to look at said list again before my 30th birthday (as it was more of an idea of where I wanted my life to be at that time rather than a list of things I had to check off as I did them), I didn’t remember half of the things I had put on it. Plus, I didn't have anything better to do with myself last night.
Some of the things on my list may be accomplished this week (hopefully #11, which I’ve been trying to do for about a month now), some may not be accomplished for years, and, let’s face it, some may not be accomplished at all. Some may be deleted, and more will surely be added. (I’m currently five short of the magic number.) But it’s kind of inspiring to have them all written down in this manner, serving as a constant reminder not to get lazy and push most of these things aside. And it’s nice having people I don’t know cheering me on (even though only one person has done so thus far). And I suppose I can learn to live with the fact that there’s no way to make the entire list uniform in capitalization and punctuation because that seems to be determined by the first person who marked the goal down.
I think I just figured out what #39 should be.
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