43 Things

Years ago, I found a website called 43 Things, which is a form of social networking (before we used that fucking stupid term,) that involves putting up a list of things to do/accomplish and then do them. I don’t know how else to define what it is but it is a community type thing. I have no idea how they make money since I can’t tell you if it has advertising or not (maybe, maybe not but lets face it, it’s better if I didn’t notice.)

I looked at the list I made in 2006 and it was pathetic. It was ten items long. And I only really wanted to do a couple of them still: Fall in love, lose weight, get published. I had done one item: get over my ex. When you’ve accomplished something, you can write about it, so I did and it made me happy to do so. And then other people can like your status or whatever their form is. It’s pretty cool.

I’ve wanted to do this for ages and I haven’t. After my friend died in 2008, I kind of stopped caring about goals and desires. But at the end of the day, if you have no desires or goals, you have nothing to look forward to and then what’s the point of being alive? (Yes, I have contemplated that in the dissertation in my head entitled “practical applications of suicide.”)

It’s taken a couple years and I feel I need to bounce back. So if you really want to feel like a retard stalker and get inside my brain…read along.

http://www.43things.com/person/CallMeMrStorm/