22.2.10

Insignificant Things: Remember Me Challenge

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Because sometimes we all need a little reminder.

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Reading Remember Me greatly inspired me to put together this challenge for myself. 

I noticed a lot of similarities between Tyler and myself: a kind of boredom about the lives we lead. You wake up, you have to be strong, so you pretend you don't need anyone; vulnerability is a trap, and no one can touch you. Experience taught you to be this way, but you usually end up stuck. You want to change it, but sometimes you feel like nothing you do will change anything.

Then I noticed Ally, and how no matter how hard she was knocked down, she went after life with zest. She sought the 'best' things in life first, and taught Tyler to do the same. There's something about literally grabbing life by the throat!

I'm so tired of living life in some sort of cave, like I'm going through the motions just to do it all over again tomorrow.  I want to gain a sense of celebration for seemingly no reason, because if anything is worth celebrating, it's life, my friends and family. When I was little, my mother would choose any day of the week to make pink pancakes for me, or blue ones the color of the Smurfs in the cartoon.  And I looked forward to it each time because I didn't even know why the day was special, it was just fun!

So this challenge is really simple: Go out with some people you love, even some new people you want to get to know, and have fun. Celebrate them, celebrate yourselves. Celebrate the fact that its Thursday. Wear party hats and go mental in the streets! Whatever you want. As long as you're creating a memory. The Gandhi quote basically says that the things you view as insignificant are the most significant.

How will you choose to be remembered?







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8 comments:

  1. I love this, thanks for reminding me

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  2. This was such a great post, thanks for the inspiration :)

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  3. Cool post. What's the book Remember Me? Who wrote it?

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  4. @Adrienne Jenkins- its actually the new movie out with Robert Pattinson and Emilie De Ravin. and Will Fetters wrote the script, which i have if you would like it.

    Thank you everyone who loved the post.

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  5. Great movie and I think you captured it so well in this post.

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  6. @Michelle thanks so much! this movie really moved me, and I hoped to get out there and inspire people in the same way, :-)

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  7. Saw this in Twitter yesterday but I was at work and unable to work the link, but now after reading it... Amazing! Well done!

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  8. What a beautiful idea, thank you, and the movie was amazing - still reeling from it, but in a good way

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Britta

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