“Make a list. Cross it off. Build a fort. Read a magazine. Turn off the tv. Make some coffee. Smell the flowers. Take a day off. Take two days off. Take a week off. Go outside. Buy a plane ticket. Leave the country. Fall in love. Wear something new. Wear nothing. Camp a mountain. Swim with the fish. Paint a picture. Paint yourself. Listen to new music. Listen to old music. Play music. Take a walk. Make a new friend. Reconnect with old friends. Write people letters. Send the letters. Tell the truth. Grow your own fruit. Look at the stars. Breathe in. Breathe out.

Now, remember this moment.”
- Make a list. Cross it…from Goodmorning & Goodnight by Basheer


Have always crossed every list I've made. Stopped making them anymore. Never tried building a fort. Read a magazine. Tv's been turned off for years now. Can't make coffee. Haven't smelled flowers in a long time! Day offs - NA. Bought plane tickets. Flew off the mainland, though not to a different country. Fallen and bruised a couple of times. Need to buy new clothes! Check. Still needs to be done. Swam with fish in the Indian Ocean (While snorkeling in the Andamans a really curious bunch of butterfly fish would keep staring back at me after fluttering off into the distance to check if I was still there.) Have been painting non stop for the past 3 days. I'm too complicated to be done justice on canvas. Have been listening to a lot of Indie music of late, love most of it! Old music: refer to previous post. Need to find my harmonica. Missed out on football today :( , prefer that more to walks. New friends; that's not happened in a long time now. Reconnected with a few, yes. Does writing loong emails count? Try to, most of the times. Planted a mango tree 15 years ago, should have borne a lot of fruit. Stare at them very often. Check. Check.

Now I won't forget this in a long time!

You should do this exercise mentally if not blog it.