If You Can Talk You Can Sing…

If You Can Walk You Can Dance.

Fall of my Junior year, I remember looking at my “To Do” List and thinking…. These are not things I actually want To Do. Even though I would eventually come to do all the things on that list, probably because I have a minor case of OCD, I started some new lists. One’s I liked to look at. I started a Short-Term Goal list. These were fun things I wanted to have accomplished within 6 months. My lists are always changing, some things are big challenges for me, some small quests, but all worth a shot. Also, I started a Long-Term Goal list, which is more or less what most call a “bucket list” or what the kids on “The Buried Life” of MTV stole from me…not really but still. Anyway, I never liked to think of things on my Long Term goal list as “things I need to do before I die” as the bucket list implies. That expression kind of gives me anxiety…the fact that the word “die” is in it and the whole thing makes me feel pressured to do all these things before time runs out. I like to call my list the Living List. Because these are things I like to do to make sure I’m living. To make sure I’m making the most of life. To remind myself to Live the Life You Love and Love the Life You Live. As my Dad gave me on a necklace. So Fall of my Junior Year I started living and risked my life going Sky Diving.

And yesterday, I cut off 10 inches of my hair (causing my legs to go numb) and donated it to Locks of Love. I’ve never had short hair and I loved my long hair. But my best friend’s (Katie and Lisa) who also have donated, motivated me to go for it and my older sister Danielle, who lost her hair to cancer when she was just 5years old, inspired me. Okay, I am also moving to El Salvador where its 95 degrees and won’t have a blow drier and no one will see me for awhile, but still. I could not imagine not having my long hair, and I reeeally could not imagine not having it when I was a little kid- Danielle didn’t let it hold her back. But maybe that’s why today her hair is down to her butt :/ Anyway, I’m so happy I have these people in my life and have this organization who helps little kids and people struggling with hair loss from cancer.

If You Can Talk You Can Sing, If You Can Walk You Can Dance. It’s an old Zimbawean Saying…aright well I first heard it in a Talib Kweli song….but to me it means You Can Do it! So make your own list to remind yourself of the things you want to do and then Just Do It. I’m starting to use too many cliché’s but it just makes sense. Make sure you’re living.

My next post will have my ever-changing & growing Living List.