June 2011
4 posts
Dreams at 20 years old
- to live in New York City for a year or two and walk to work, my apartment, stores, the park…
- to travel with friends and get lost and discover the most unpredictable things
- to go on a romantic, souvenir-studded, memorable vacation in Europe (typical)
- to remain close friends with those who have always been there and have our future families become close as well
- to visit my parents happily dwelling in a quaint and comfortable farming house
- to have my parents finally feel like they are done raising me and can sit back and watch the rest of the show
- to witness one of my friends become someone famous
- to write a children’s book that some child pores over because of its enchanting artwork
- to rent an RV and go on a seemingly mundane but eventually wildly hilarious road trip for at least a week
- to go to all my best friends’ weddings
- to win some sort of obscure first prize/place
- to be in love with my husband at an old age and feel completely secure about him throughout our marriage
- to have a balcony garden with mix-matched pots and cascading vegetation
- to have a pet dog with a great personality that I will be with incessantly and love to death
- to set up a slightly overdone Christmas display every year
- to feel productive, creative, and continuously stimulated in my career and workplace
- to go ice-skating on a real lake
- to help my children bake cookies for Santa
- to go scuba diving
- to live in a mansion (preferably castle) for a week
- to meet Natalie Portman
- to take singing lessons and pwn in karaoke
- to be told (sincerely) that I’m beautiful and amazing by someone I love
- to have a very orderly yet stylish interior decoration
- to learn how to cook really yummy foods
- to make my mom feel like a hot diva
- to make my grandmother feel like a hot diva
- to have a perfectly organized and color coordinated walk-in closet
- to find the perfect reading spot (preferably personal library or secret garden) in which I will read every book I feel like reading
- to sew a HUGE Totoro and keep it in my room
- to become close friends with someone older than 60
- to FINALLY WIN A RAFFLE, it doesn’t even matter what the prize is
- to be taken on one of those creative dates that you see in the movies
- to memorize, permanently, at least 3 Chopin, 2 Tchaikovsky, and 1 Beethoven piano pieces
- to go to an opera
- to get one of those huge bean-bags with a suede touch
- to be able to drive and control a bull-dozer for a day
- to get kissed on the top of a raised crane at nighttime
- to go to a drive-in movie theater
- to forgive and forget
- to find someone who likes the same kinds of music I do
- to live on a farm for a month
- to act a small cameo in a mainstream film
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