be happy, live simply, get laid

After the first couple days on the Twinkler edition of 43 Things, the top three things that people wanted to do were be happy, live simply, and get laid. I don't think I've ever heard a more honest philosophy of life... the fact that it emerged from the wise crowd so quickly was really encouraging to me.

Josh invented a game on Twinkler where you're supposed to try and create a list where each item on the list is unique (meaning that you're the only person out of all 30,000+ people to visit the site that actually wants to do that thing). Josh got a perfect 43 with this list. Daniel shortly thereafter did the same (can't find the link to his list at the moment...). After delaying most of the day, I decided that I'd give it a try as well. It's a nerve-wracking game... I'm picky enough that I need to actually want to do each of the things on my list, and I also tried not to add pronouns and adjectives in order to unique-ify otherwise duplicate goals. The first 10 were really difficult. I dropped a celebrity's name, got a little meta, and paraphrased a goal I had entered earlier for a different list. Then, I started thinking that perhaps it wasn't that difficult after all... after all be hypnotized passed. Unfortunately, I got a little too cocky and died on paint a mural. I only got to 14. I might give it another try tomorrow, but my mind is too drained to try again tonight.

I'm a little self-conscious about talking about work-related stuff here so frequently here... I'm just really enjoying it. It has one of those "this is your life-calling" feelings... I wonder if I'll ever be able to stand having a normal job again (not that I plan to). Loving your work is a beautiful thing.

Other things going on too. Got kicked out of Shorty's last night (not my fault). Going camping in the cold this weekend (bringing a bottle of whiskey). Planning a big new year's party at the loft with a volunteering party planning mentor.

I love how there are small things in the periphery of your life that have a large impact on your happiness or depression. For example, I think the fact that I'm now walking by bakeries on the walk to work injects me with an extra dose of happiness. So does lying on my side on my bed and being able to look out the window down onto the Viaduct and the people walking across the street (I assume that they can't see me). So does the flickr desktop app, 1001, which puts rotating pictures from my friends on my screensaver. Yeah, major epiphany--small things make all the difference. And you wonder why you keep coming back here... where else can you find such finely recycled cliches?

37 days until the New Year.

Comments

[Daniel]

Cliches rules the world. Walking to work is on the greatest pleasures of my life -- so I completely agree that small things make the grade.

My list has already moved a bit (a few folks have adopted goals).
http://twinkler.43things.com/twinkler/list/27193