The List

On this beautiful blog, I found a lovely list of "theoretically achievable things", little dreams to fulfill and goals to strive towards. I've made several different versions of this list myself before, and if I were to make one right now, it would look like this:

1. Buy some really beautiful, boudoir-ish sleepwear (just for the fun of it)

2. Do backstage work at a play
3. Rent a little beach house somewhere warm
4. Translate a novel from English
5. Find a local pub or café to truely feel at home in
6. Actually write a book
7. Work abroad for a year or two
8. Take a proper roadtrip with friends
9. Become fluent in French
10. Walz with someone who really knows how to (once again)
11. Change my hairstyle
12. Go stargazing with someone who loves it just as much as I do
13. Throw an outdoors autumn party like this:

So that last thing might not happen - I just adore that picture - but those other things could actually happen at some point. The point of making these lists, to me, is not to frantically start working towards all these dreams, but just to remind myself that they are still there, if you know what I mean. It's so easy to lose sight of them and start focusing way too much on everyday life. Right now, numbers 1. and 9. are definitely the easiest for me to work on, so I guess I'll start with those...:)

On the list that inspired me to write my own, there was this one thing that I especially liked: "Read aloud with someone I really love". That is such a wonderfully theatralic, Jane Austen-y thing to do, and I feel like noone ever does that anymore. I definitely want to, some day.