This list kind of turned into a combination of "how to be okay with the break-up" and "things to do over the summer."

• Immediately cease
  • Trying to convince him to change his mind
  • Telling yourself that he will change his mind
  • Reminiscing about the past few months (you're not ready for that yet)
  • ✔ Crying every five minutes
• ✔ Sharing feelings with others, or at the very least, writing them down somewhere
• ✔ Food (you need nourishment and you have to eat)
• A healthy amount of sleep (7-8 hours, no more)
• Keeping busy with everything you'd normally keep busy with
• Perspective
  • Realizing life will go on
  • Knowing I will be alright
  • Knowing there will be others
  • Trying to find the positive(s) in the situation
• ✔ Writing nearly every day
• ✔ Reading some good books and movies
• Occasionally doing silly/ridiculous things that are not productive at all (playing video games, watching the OC, making videos on Photobooth with Sarah, etc)
• The avoidance of
  • ✔ Alcohol
  • ✔ Cigarettes
  • ✔ Drugs of all sorts
  • Self-abuse
  • Suicidal thoughts
• ✔ GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL
• ✔ Getting excited about UGA and orientation and all of the other great things coming up
• ✔ Getting excited about seeing Clara and Anna this summer!
• Bubble baths
• Allowing myself to cry when I really need to do so
• Refusing to give up on life/myself
• Things that make me happy that I don't do often enough
  • Visiting Walden Pond/Concord
  • Watching live music
  • Reading poetry
  • Reading philosophy
  • Videochatting with people I miss
  • Spending time outdoors
  • ✔ Cooking and baking
• Multiple trips to the beach
• Possibly doing something totally self-indulgent and ridiculous just because I want to, such as
  • Getting my nose pierced
  • Getting a tattoo
  • Getting two more piercings in each ear
  • Shopping trip
  • Dying my hair (very unlikely but who knows)
  • Tie-dye a bunch of shirts
  • Spend an entire day wandering around Cambridge by myself
• ✔ Learning how to be independent and accepting the situation for what it is
• Recognizing it could have been a lot worse (and that it has been a lot worse in the past)
• Spending time with my family because they love me unconditionally
• ✔ Six Flags with Sarah! Maybe Canobie too
• Enjoying being single (at least recognizing the good things about it)
• Refusal to blame myself for anything
• Pointless drives around town/in the area
• Many many many trips to the library
• Downloading or purchasing a LOT of new music (there is nothing more distracting than really good or intriguing new music!)