RAViNDU

I’m alive!

Your life is boring. The two most exciting things that
happened to you this week was an afternoon of sunshine
when you had washing on the line and the phone call on
Sunday night was not from your mother-in-law. Your social
calendar for the immediate future contains two birthday
parties for three-year-olds and the only time you see other
people is when you go to the supermarket or the beauty
parlour. When you start watching infomercials on morning
TV, you should know IT’S TIME.
There are things every one of us should do at least once a
year — if only to remind ourselves that we are alive. And let
the game begin...
• Go away for a weekend, but don’t decide on a destination
beforehand. Just get in the car and see where it takes you
• Go and watch two movies in one day and have a pizza and
some wine in between. Read all your old love letters
• Get up early and watch the sun rise
• Go to a concert
• Phone an old friend you have not spoken to for ages
• Wear something outrageous and different to what you
would usually wear
• Buy a lottery ticket
• Reread your three favourite poems and books —
preferably in bed
• Go for a long walk next to the sea
• Swim when it is raining
• Buy something you don’t need at all, but would like to have anyway
• Phone an old boyfriend on his birthday
• Let the dog sleep under your blanket on a cold night
• Talk through the night to someone you really care about and only go to sleep when the birds start chirping
• Invite the nice new person at work for dinner — don’t just promise to do it
• Eat oranges and chocolate fudge for dinner — just because that’s what you feel like
• Go and see a play
• Go for a long walk in the rain — who cares if you get soaked to your skin
• Spend an hour on the phone talking to your best friend gossiping about someone you know, preferably your boss or
your mother-in-law
• Have a picnic
• Go to a restaurant you have never been to before
• Go for a massage or aromatherapy
• Watch the sunset
• Ask your hairdresser what he would like to do with your hair
• Learn to let the dishes stand for a day
• Sign up for singing lessons, dancing lessons, or kick-boxing classes, or live drawing, or writing classes, or Tai Chi
• Put in suddenly for a day’s leave and go trekking or in a nature reserve for a long weekend
• Go to a nursery and buy some plants, even if they are for the balcony of your flat
• Invite 10 very dissimilar people to a dinner party. Drink a tranquilliser beforehand
• Commit one hour a week of your time towards helping others in some way — whether volunteering at a community
organisation
• Buy flowers for yourself
• Go out for the evening and say “Expect me when you see me” as you leave
• Take a luxurious aromatic bath; in fact, spend the good part of your day there.