- stay in one place your whole life
- always order vanilla even though the menu is four pages long
- become the type of person who sends back lattes
- save up your money for a plasma tv instead of a plane ticket
- talk a lot about things you know nothing about
- have an affair with someone you don't even find attractive
- refuse to forget your ex
- make it impossible for yourself to do anything without remembering that you used to do it with them
- hug your knees under your sheets and think about how safe you felt when they held you at night
- remind yourself daily of how empty you feel
- find new ways to make yourself sad
- get drunk all the time
- consider no saturday night, national holiday or extended happy hour complete without a vodka-induced breakdown
- graduate college but keep drinking like you're still in it
- notice that cheap beer tastes watery and stale when you drink it alone but drink it anyway
- look at old facebook pictures wasted and wonder where everyone went
- never drink
- never do anything that could potentially be "bad" for you
- treat your body like the temple it is and say no to carbs, yes to wheatgrass
- go to bed at ten sharp
- turn down cake on your birthday
- take fifteen different dietary supplements; moniter carefully
- succumb to nothing
- miss out on everything
- compare yourself constantly, to everyone
- allow the standards of image-obsessed, age-obsessed culture to make you feel decrepit at 25
- scroll through skinny girls on tumblr feeling wistful and inadequate
- pull at the skin on your hipbones, stomach and underarms in the mirror
- sigh a lot
- sigh all the time
- don't fall in love with anyone or anything
- put an impenetrable wall between yourself and other people
- add a fire-breathing dragon and eight yards of barbed wire
- be suspicious of everyone's motives
- hold grudges long after you've forgotten what for
- fall in love with everyone and anything
- run after the next best thing like it's a bus you're perpetually late for
- throw your heart into every other stranger's hands and be genuinely surprised to be hurt
- refuse to learn
- refuse to ever learn
mar 27 2012 ∞
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