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My 21st birthday is in three days. I know on paper it's just another birthday, but with all the big transitions coming up for me soon, it feels like I'm coming up on the first birthday of the rest of my life. ..I guess it doesn't matter how old I get, I still feel the drama in everything.
I make lots of lists of what I want to do in given increments of time. I think I probably made one of those to do in the 21st year lists about a month ago, but a month provides a lot of insight. It's time to make a new list and see what's stayed the same. I think it's how I keep track of who I am and who I've been.
I do my new year's resolutions every year on my birthday. Because why do it at the start of the calendar year? That day doesn't mean anything to me alone. Your resolutions should be just yours, the things you reflect on alone.
Anyway, this year I'm adding a few things to the list:
*Pay Bert to teach me some passable French.
*Apply to teach in Spain.
*Give my all to this research paper because it's the last paper I'll ever have to write for school, and I want to do it right this one last time. (This one's for the former self-validation I seek)
*Not once pass up a chance to travel. Anywhere.
*Write songs on the guitar. Even if they're terrible.
*Start reading all the books I've collected in the years I've been here in the city.
*Read Whitman on Brooklyn Bridge. (From the "big list")
*Watch more Turner Classic Movies.
*Ballet.
*Gugenheim.
*More adventures.
But for right now my body's angry and wants a nap.
I make lots of lists of what I want to do in given increments of time. I think I probably made one of those to do in the 21st year lists about a month ago, but a month provides a lot of insight. It's time to make a new list and see what's stayed the same. I think it's how I keep track of who I am and who I've been.
I do my new year's resolutions every year on my birthday. Because why do it at the start of the calendar year? That day doesn't mean anything to me alone. Your resolutions should be just yours, the things you reflect on alone.
Anyway, this year I'm adding a few things to the list:
*Pay Bert to teach me some passable French.
*Apply to teach in Spain.
*Give my all to this research paper because it's the last paper I'll ever have to write for school, and I want to do it right this one last time. (This one's for the former self-validation I seek)
*Not once pass up a chance to travel. Anywhere.
*Write songs on the guitar. Even if they're terrible.
*Start reading all the books I've collected in the years I've been here in the city.
*Read Whitman on Brooklyn Bridge. (From the "big list")
*Watch more Turner Classic Movies.
*Ballet.
*Gugenheim.
*More adventures.
But for right now my body's angry and wants a nap.