A fascinating concept, no?
I was introduced to it over the weekend by my buddy the Real Estate Mogul Of Doylestown.
We were driving through some beautiful Bucks County farmland that somehow hasn't grown a crop of McMansions and REMOD mentioned that he once promised himself that he'd have a farm and raise sheep, and at the same time prayed that he'd never have a farm and raise sheep. Y'know? One of those things that works great on a conceptual level, but the image of yourself shoveling sheep dung in August gives you pause.
Here are some examples of some Promises I've Made To Myself With My Fingers Crossed...
• Learn to skateboard!
• Be on a Reality show!
• Compete in MAL!
• Be a hustler!
• Have a motorcycle as my primary means of transportation! (What? No cup holder? I'll keep my iced quad venti two pump vanilla light ice latté where exactly?)
• Seduce a straight guy!
• Meet anyone whom I idolize! (Way too stressful. And then they go and disappoint you by being merely human.)
• Live in Moscow!
• Enter a monastery!
• Learn vietnamese!
• Attend Burning Man!
• Open my own restaurant!
• Be a Law Enforcement Officer! (I'm way to old at this point. And what do you mean I'd have to shave my moustache? I'm not thinking of T.J. Hooker so much as I am Goldblum on Hill Street Blues.)
• Become a wine connoisseur!
• Jump off the high dive!
• Throw pottery on the wheel!
• Go on an archaeological dig! (I'm still enthralled by this idea, but a Real Live Archaeologist I met explained to me that it's several weeks of you, eighty-one square feet of dirt, a teaspoon, and a collander.)
• Join the Merchant Marines!
• Enter a Jesuit novitiate!
• Father a child!
• Take voice lessons!
• ...and so many more.
What are some of yours?
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4 comments:
Hey drew- what a great concept-
here's mine -
- support myself with my arts and crafts
- air brush a side of a building
-say hi to the next guy i think is hot
- become a body builder
-not go to one of the "sacred" family function
- actually not spend xmas with my family
-fix up my 1966 289 v8 mustang
-get a mohawk after i quit this job
Live and travel in an RV
Become a sex worker
Become a writer
Live a 24/7 M/s relationship
Backpack through the UK and Ireland
Run/Own a cafe
Run/Own a bookstore
Seriously take up a martial art
- Totally give myself over to a hot man, one night with almost no holds barred
- Learn Bridge (the card game)
- Chart out my family history
- Learn to drive a motorcycle
- Learn to drink and appreciate beer without making "that face"
This is great. I had to do it too...!
xo
M
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