Friday, September 18, 2009.
Aloha!
As everyone knows I am about to become 25 years old. When I say about to become, I mean in a few days, depending on when you read this. This is my quarter life crisis with the positive outlook of living until 100.
I am about to spend this day away from all of my family and most of my friends. This causes me to wonder what I can do to unite everyone. What I have come up with is the following.
If you receive this, you are one of my friends and I hold your friendship dear to my heart. The following is a list. Look at it as a scavenger hunt for your soul. These are things that I will be doing the week of my birthday (September 21 – September 28). I will complete each of these actions and provide a photograph to prove the accomplishment.
What I challenge you to do, is the same thing. Do all of these things. Do one of these things. I do not care, but I want to know which ones you do. I will run a contest and the person that completes the most will receive a door prize. I thank you for reading this and good luck!
This is my way of changing the world . . .
The 25 degrees of William Spadaro. What I will do to change everything I know!
- Drink coffee with Baileys and eat breakfast taco’s consisting of eggs, cheese and potatoes. (Always wanted to do this before work, now is the day)
- Paint a picture and enjoy the beauty in the details. I will do so in the middle of downtown Austin during the middle of the day.
- Sing karaoke. My song will be “Imagine” by John Lennon. (Do something you have always judged but never tried)
- Dance. Attempt will be salsa, line dancing or swing. (Do something that scares you to death)
- Lunch with a homeless person to understand the person. (Reach out and connect with the less fortunate)
- Listen to my favorite album of each decade. (Connect with the music you grew up with)
1950’s: Miles Davis with “Kind of Blue” (1959)
1960’s: The Beatles with “Revolver” (1966)
1970’s: The Who with “Who’s Next” (1971)
1980’s: U2 with “Joshua Tree” (1987)
1990’s: Pearl Jam with “Ten” (1991)
2000’s: Bright Eyes with “I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning” (2005)
- Eat a new food that I would have never considered before. (Change your perspective)
- Give something a second chance after you ruined the first being stubborn. I will go to Texas A&M for a football game. Participate in all festivities and the Aggie War Hymn.
- Enjoy a local activity you have forgotten about. I will watch the bat’s leave the Congress bridge while enjoying a picnic.
- Go to an art museum. I will go to Austin Museum of Modern Art for the Chuck Close exhibit.
- Support a local charity with money and more importantly, time.Go to live, free show of Bob Schnieder at Waterloo to support HAAM.
- Hike a mountain or take a walk in park in your area. I will hike Mt. Bonnell in Austin.
- Visit a botanical garden or natural habitat in your area. I will visit Zilker Park Botanical Garden and Barton Springs Pool.
- Meditate. I will enjoy the beauty of the Capital of Texas at night and clear my mind of the day’s activities and worries.
- Give a compliment. (Respect the people around you.)
- Kiss the person you Love. (Express your feelings to spark the Love.)
- Try a new beer or wine. (Expand yourself past your normal comfort zones.)
- Accept your enemy. True paradise is to learn to Love your enemy. I will root for the Red Sox against the Yankees.
- Challenge yourself to be non-discriminatory toward something. I will watch a “chick flick.”
- Discard previous stereotypes. Listen to a country radio station for a day.
- Get back to the basic elements of living. Go a day without any technology. No cell phone, computer, TV, radio, or Ipod.
- Challenge yourself. I will cook something that I have always wanted to but have been too scared to try.
- Be selfless. I will improve the day of one person that I meet by simply listening.
- Remove any bad thought from your being. Spend a day without being negative, judgmental, angry, or guilty.
- Apologize to someone for a past action. (Healing the past is the only way to live in the future.)
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