List
Advice in 49 parts.
(Closing following herhimnbryn's list.)
Get out every day, especially if it's cold and wet.
Read what you love, but be brave and try to read anything that you come across.
Love is a verb.
The rules don't apply to everyone. Knowing this stalls a lot of envy and bad feeling.
Live in your skin, although a room to oneself is very nice.
Allow yourself to cry, then to laugh.
Think about everything, stay curious.
Watch how people walk, their path is written there.
Make the people around you feel loved. If they don't feel it, you're doing it wrong.
Never feed anger.
Fury will always bounce back at you, hit you in the face like a slammed door that doesn't catch.
Stick to real stuff as much as possible. Good butter and eggs cost more, but are worth it as well.
Any lesson not embraced will just find you out later, and be bigger and meaner the next time.
Accept the grey in your hair, the sags the wrinkles, as scars from the wars. Wear them with grace.
Be creative, in your own way. Unless it's crocheted beer can hats.
Keep your home clean, but never worry about friends seeing it untidy.
When you don't have words, let the silence have it's say.
Greet each problem with good cheer, like a good teacher.
Value grace in all it's forms.
Never let group cattiness and criticism in, it will just take over and ruin everything.
Shine the items that can shine, once in a while.
When you say no, stand by it and mean it.
When you say yes, follow through with a light heart.
Have a cup of tea.
Forgive your back for giving out on you, it tried so hard for so long.
Get good, solid, socks.
Give hugs and hold hands and pet animals, but make sure they want you to.
Routinely carry a camera. Leave it home when it will get in the way of talking with friends.
No one will tell you if you wear too much perfume. But they will avoid you.
If you collect anything, use it, and always be willing to give it away in whole or part.
Trust your instincts, and practice using them.
Friends are valuable, but mutable. Let them in, and let them go, as applicable.
Make plans for becoming rich. To test your integrity, and, well, just in case.
No one can make anyone do anything. Or stop being self destructive.
Wishing cannot harm another, or make anything better.
Take time to do nothing.
Smile, not because you feel like it, but because it will help you feel better.
Dawn is as lovely as dusk, and much less crowded.
A sleepless night now and then, is inevitable.
When it rains, go for a walk.
Just because it's ugly, don't mean it ain't beautiful.
Be fair. Then be generous.
Talk to whomever is annoying you. Give them first shot at fixing it.
The young don't need make-up, and it looks fake on the old. There is nothing so wrong with your face you need to mask it.
Listen attentively. The fools and the wise will reveal themselves.
Be honest and truthful, it will keep your ability to remember accurately sharper.
Pay up front, it always is cheaper than catching up, replacing cheap stuff, or additional interest.
It gets better. It really does.
(Closing following herhimnbryn's list.)
Get out every day, especially if it's cold and wet.
Read what you love, but be brave and try to read anything that you come across.
Love is a verb.
The rules don't apply to everyone. Knowing this stalls a lot of envy and bad feeling.
Live in your skin, although a room to oneself is very nice.
Allow yourself to cry, then to laugh.
Think about everything, stay curious.
Watch how people walk, their path is written there.
Make the people around you feel loved. If they don't feel it, you're doing it wrong.
Never feed anger.
Fury will always bounce back at you, hit you in the face like a slammed door that doesn't catch.
Stick to real stuff as much as possible. Good butter and eggs cost more, but are worth it as well.
Any lesson not embraced will just find you out later, and be bigger and meaner the next time.
Accept the grey in your hair, the sags the wrinkles, as scars from the wars. Wear them with grace.
Be creative, in your own way. Unless it's crocheted beer can hats.
Keep your home clean, but never worry about friends seeing it untidy.
When you don't have words, let the silence have it's say.
Greet each problem with good cheer, like a good teacher.
Value grace in all it's forms.
Never let group cattiness and criticism in, it will just take over and ruin everything.
Shine the items that can shine, once in a while.
When you say no, stand by it and mean it.
When you say yes, follow through with a light heart.
Have a cup of tea.
Forgive your back for giving out on you, it tried so hard for so long.
Get good, solid, socks.
Give hugs and hold hands and pet animals, but make sure they want you to.
Routinely carry a camera. Leave it home when it will get in the way of talking with friends.
No one will tell you if you wear too much perfume. But they will avoid you.
If you collect anything, use it, and always be willing to give it away in whole or part.
Trust your instincts, and practice using them.
Friends are valuable, but mutable. Let them in, and let them go, as applicable.
Make plans for becoming rich. To test your integrity, and, well, just in case.
No one can make anyone do anything. Or stop being self destructive.
Wishing cannot harm another, or make anything better.
Take time to do nothing.
Smile, not because you feel like it, but because it will help you feel better.
Dawn is as lovely as dusk, and much less crowded.
A sleepless night now and then, is inevitable.
When it rains, go for a walk.
Just because it's ugly, don't mean it ain't beautiful.
Be fair. Then be generous.
Talk to whomever is annoying you. Give them first shot at fixing it.
The young don't need make-up, and it looks fake on the old. There is nothing so wrong with your face you need to mask it.
Listen attentively. The fools and the wise will reveal themselves.
Be honest and truthful, it will keep your ability to remember accurately sharper.
Pay up front, it always is cheaper than catching up, replacing cheap stuff, or additional interest.
It gets better. It really does.
Labels: Meme
Posted by Zhoen on Saturday, October 02, 2010
13 comments:
Indeed. A good list.
I think I shall make one every birthday and see how they change.
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But I shall hang onto my mascara for a couple more years!
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Ah, but you wear it for fun, like jewelry. Different attitude, different meaning.
With you on the crocheted beer can hats! And very much enjoyed reading your list with laughs, uh-huh's, and yep's along the way.
hey! what the hell is wrong with crocheted beer caps? a girl needs a hobby, after all!
love the rest of the list and, no surprise here, have much much much to learn.
R,
That was how I felt about herhimnbryn's list.
PC,
Nothing, if you're 70 and it's 1970.
And, don't we all?
ok, ok, i'll switch to macrame plant hangers. am doing my own list. i can stand to be inspired and how nice would it be to be able to do it myself! thanks for the lovely idea!
Good advice, at least some of which I am already subscribed.
Wow. Make the people around you feel loved. If they don't feel it, you're doing it wrong. I'd like to get that tattooed on myself, somewhere.
Dale,
A t-shirt would probably do. Maybe a mug.
I love this list! I think I'm going to go and have a cup of tea.
I've been jotting now and then since reading HHB's and thinking perhaps by December I might have collected 49. I almost stopped reading this as you've said so much so well I can't imagine saying anything more. I think I specially love the one about friends being valuable but mutable, and about being fair, then generous.
I'm afraid I sometimes use rain as an excuse to stay in, and wrote a long e-mail rather than doing the vacuuming today, but sometimes you have to compromise...
Such a thoughtful list you've shared. There are so many gems and things to think about. I go back and forth on the make-up, in the end I refuse spend the money on it. I applaud the advice, "Talk to whomever is annoying you..." We're so often afraid to talk about anything that matters it seems. I'm afraid people will see confrontation where there is none. I've been making an extra effort to at least let people know what a good difference they make in my life and that I appreciate their presence. Thanks again for posting this. I'll visit again.
A brilliant list. I need to return and reread it often.
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