It has been ten years. Interestingly my old list of things I would like to do in 1001 days started coming back to me. I wrote this at a time when I was still living in Slovakia, but was soon leaving to Scotland.
It has been ten years since I came here.
Ten beautiful years, but as well ten years of a lot of hardship and struggles. I could easily say it has been the most difficult decade of my life so far, but same time most growing, exiting, life-changing. I would likely think the same about the decade before, but looking back those were more stable times at least from the outside, those were times when I was getting ready for this roller-coaster of feelings, emotions, decisions and realisations, changing my entire life journey completely, leaving behind what did not work, figuring out what does work and who I really am.
My old blog was a tiny reflection of my true self and 101 things in 1001 days were mostly reflections of who I truly am. As much I tried to be someone else during that time, it still leaked out in the blog and they still stayed with me until today, throughout all those changes.
I still love nature, horseback riding (even though I don’t do that one now), running, camping, little things.
Looking back at the list, there are things I have achieved without even knowing, but there are definitely ones I am still due to do and some I do not want anymore. Going through the list feels somewhat exiting and surprising.
The list was meant to be finished in 2016, but here we are in 2023 with a lot still go on.
I guess it is a great reminder of keeping our dreams alive, helping our inner child, teen or young adult be themselves and be seen. It is certainly what I feel going through the list, seeing my younger self full of doubts and anxieties trying to survive, trying to fit in and be seen, trying to be themselves.
It was difficult.
It still is at times, but I am more confident in my own skin then I have ever been, even though this new skin is something I have never thought I would become.
About that maybe another time.
I do not want to do 100 things in 1000 days anymore, but I do want to have a reminder of dreams and hopes towards the future. Have some sort of clarity where I am heading and want to get to. I want to make it 100 in roughly 10 years, but this can be shorter or longer as we never really know where the life will take us.
I am definitely on such crossroad these days, trying to leave Edinburgh in past few years, yet is seems like it just does not want to let me go. So let’s make a new list today in July of 2023, maybe finished in 2033 or maybe serve as an inspiration for another decade. I guess I want it to be living and changing list and not strictly rigid. Sometimes some goals and interests change in time and so I would like it to be living thing in case this happens.
So this was my original list. Let’s have a look what I have achieved (crossed) and what I do not want to achieve anymore (bold cursive):
Start: 17.4.2013
Finnish: 5.2.2016 (extended to 2023)
1. My own photo with every blog post
2. Create a herb first aid kit
3. Finnish law degree
4. Go study abroad
5. Learn whole metallica ‘nothing else matters’ on guitar
6. Go horseback riding 20 times
7. Have motorbike driving licence
8. Buy canon and make a lot of photographs (as well without)
9. Create blog on wordpress
10. Write e-book
11. Finnish started book
12. Go again out to a club and have a lot of fun, dance till the morning and reset
13. Minimalism at least in one aspect of life
14. Learn new habits (20)
15. Learn french
16. Read 5 spanish books
17. Read 5 english books
18. Experience sunrise and sunset in one day
19. Be part of a movment ‘give a hug’
20. Meditate every day
21. Go do snowboarding in High Tatras and Alps
22. Go to a pub where they have at least 5 different kinds of beer and try them all
23. Donate some of your things
24. Take out dogs from a shelter
25. Create 10 items with glass painting
26. Read 4 agreements – working book and implement them to life
27. Read the whole Bible
28. Go for few weeks/months course of foreign language abroad
29. Start penpals again and regularly exchange letters
30. Run every day
31. Be human rights activist
32. Do yoga
33. Go to a dance school/class
34. No more bread in my diet (or only little part)
35. Design my room according FengShui
36. Add books to ‘Knihobežník’ (network of books places around Slovakia where people are leaving books for others on random places)
37. Go to have a thai massage
38. Finnish the album from my birthday
39. Start a photoalbum for me and my boyfriend
40. Start recycling in our kitchen
41. Let a proffesisonal take photos of me
42. Meet my friends at least once a month
43. Have an earing on the top of my ear
44. Add more to my tattoo on back
45. Go first time to a cosmetic centre
46. Loose weight to 55kg
47. Learn to walk in high hills
48. Camping by the lake with fire
49. Finnish all the articles for the blog
50. Go to see Christmas market in Vienna
51. Start learning playing piano
52. Learn music notes again
53. Learn how to tie a tie
54. Go to a romantic holidays
55. Travel part of Slovakia/Czech republic on motorbike
56. Read all the books in my library what I have not read yet
57. Write a letter to myself what I think will happen in 5 years
58. Sleep under the stars with my boyfriend
59. Answer all the 50 questions that will free your mind http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/
60. See aurora
61. Write all bad memories and throw them to the fire
62. Find out 100 things what make me happy
63. Read 50 books
64. Visit at least one different continent
65. Have a dinner with candles
66. Put a lock with my boyfriend in one of the Europe cities
67. Do complete detox of liver and gut
68. Create my own cooking book
69. Go fishing
70. See 10 different states
71. Finish bachelor degree on AAdT
72. Do IELTS in English
73. Do fruit day once a week
74. Do fasting at least one day
75. Try sushi
76. Teach someone something
77. At least one day don’t judge anyone and anything
78. Learn Scottish accent
79. Make my blog public under my own name on FB
80. Visit Vienna Prater
81. Go on a boat on the lake
82. Try surfing
83. Go see world singer concert
84. Do hiking in Czech Krkonose hills
85. See the top of the hill ‘Krivan’ in High Tatras without being pushed going back because of weather
86. Don’t eat sweets for half a year
87. Learn detox/natural healing/self-awareness (be a master at least in one)
88. Do exercise of 5 Tibetans every morning
89. Learn official First Aid
90. Keep doing GTD method and planning every day
91. Say NO without feeling guilty
92. Try to write for printed magazine/newspaper or something
93. Write 200 articles
94. Organise all email addresses
95. Get rid of half of my room stuff
96. Become independent from my parents
97. Make for someone breakfast to bed
98. Fullfill someone’s wish
99. Be completely healthy
100.Have enough money every month without turning every coin
101. Create human rights blog
Sneak peak into the golas/dreams in next article…
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