{"id":199,"date":"2016-02-10T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caucasianasian.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2020-09-07T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:04:03","slug":"if-i-had-a-month-left-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caucasianasian.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"If I had a month left to live…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am thinking about the idea of “live like you’re dying”. If I had a month left to live, and I knew it, this is what I would do.<\/span><\/p>\n

1) Quit school and spend that time teaching younger kids<\/span>
\n2) Go to Boston, sit on the street, and play music (hoping someone might join me)<\/span>
\n3) Ask strangers to dance<\/span>
\n4) Drive (far)<\/span>
\n5) Drink a lot of water<\/span>
\n6) Wake up every morning for the sunrise<\/span>
\n7) Look at the stars every night<\/span>
\n8) Sit around campfires with friends and strangers<\/span>
\n9) Listen to good music and make playlists that describes a friendship and give them to the respective friends.<\/span>
\n10) Do more service projects<\/span>
\n11) Trespass on some cool places<\/span>
\n12) Sit and read that book I haven’t had the time for<\/span>
\n13) Give hugs to everyone<\/span>
\n14) Write a movie script<\/span>
\n15) Be completely honest with everyone<\/span>
\n16) Put myself out there and take all the risks I do not feel like I can<\/span>
\n17) a) Kiss someone I know, but only once.<\/span>
\n17) b) Kiss someone I haven’t met yet, more than once<\/span>
\n18) Sell everything I own except for my adventure hat(s), my favorite hoodie, my cameras, my snowboard, and a skateboard. [2020 update, sell everything but 3 outfits, my car, one film camera, one hat, one surfboard.] Then give all of that money to charity, and leave those remaining belongings to my closest friends. [2020 update: other than the one I keep, cam gets the surfboards] Each item would be given to the friend who has shared experiences with me centered around those objects, thus giving each object its true value.<\/span>
\n19) Write a letter to everyone who I have hurt asking for forgiveness<\/span>
\n20) Write a letter to everyone who has hurt me saying I forgive them<\/span>
\n21) Write a song<\/span>
\n22) Stop running from my past, and walk in the present<\/span>
\n23) Spend a day completely alone, sipping tea in my favorite place<\/span>
\n24) Walk to the woods with my favorite book sealed in a plastic bag. Leave it and hope someone discovers it and appreciates all of my notes and drawings on the pages<\/span>
\n25) Get a tattoo of the name of everyone\/anyone who has ever impacted my life so that they remain a part of me.<\/span>
\n26) a) Meet a stranger and share my life story.<\/span>
\n26) b) Listen to theirs<\/span>
\n27) KPO<\/span>
\n28) Hunt down 2 cans of the illusive Shaq cream soda, share one<\/span>
\n29) Make sure every friend (and sibling, and sibling of my friends (who are also my friends) knows how much they mean to me<\/span>
\n30) Listen to M83’s Hurry Up We’re Dreaming from start to finish<\/span>
\n31) Delete all of my social media, and only accept phone calls.<\/span>
\n32) Cry about something but not be sad about it<\/span>
\n33) Give a high five<\/span>
\n34) Swim in the ocean regardless of the temperature<\/span>
\n35) Scream as loud as I can (Barbaric Yawp)<\/span>
\n36) Pray with my thoughts, words, and actions\u00a0<\/span>
\n37) Shoot a lot of film, but don’t develop it.<\/span>
\n38) Spend every free moment with my friends<\/span>
\n39) Sleep enough to fully enjoy the time that I am awake (experiences should be quality over quantity)<\/span>
\n40) Exercise (Swim, bike, run, jump, dance, and ultimate frisbee)<\/span>
\n41) Drink a lot of water Pt. 2 (Idk why this made the list twice but I’m totally feeling the drinking water thing)<\/span><\/p>\n

I found making this list to be very relaxing, I recommend you make one. Maybe share it with someone!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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