So, after talking with my friends, I have decided The List needs to have two added goals:
The List
- Be more active. I don’t just mean running and exercise, but also just walking more.
- Learn how to cook; be more efficient and creative with food.
- Finish all the art projects I started but never completed.
- Learn Spanish just because.
- Learn more about world history.
- Take more pictures.
- Continue to practice programming skills.
- Read more books!!
- Be aware enough to able to have conversations about current events.
- Prioritize my friends.
I just want to explain that last point a bit. I am the kind of person who find peace and happiness in solitude and if I didn’t have awesome roommates to keep me in check I think that I would have become a full on hermit by now. But as more time goes on I am realizing that maybe the reason I didn’t prefer to be social was because I was hanging out with the wrong people.
Since the beginning of college I tended to just hang out with the same couple groups of people, groups that i had/have a lot of fun with, but at the same time, I don’t think that any individual in those groups really took the time to know me or vise versa. None of them were people I could talk to about my issues. Our friendships were/are very surface level. It actually felt draining for me to be around them a lot of the time.
But recently I have been hanging out with different people, and I found that some of these people are people who really get me and actually care about me. And I think these are the people who I need to start prioritizing. Its hard to change my ways because I have always been a pretty solitary kind of person but I think it will definitely be worth it to branch out more.
Salve Munde 