Beyond Selidor

elizabethtastic's been doing this meme for the past couple of weeks, and I was waiting for November to roll around so that I had a neat 30-day month in which to follow suit. So, without further ado, I bring you Day 1 of the 'Deep Thoughts 30-Day Meme'.

Day 1. What happened today? If it was the last day of your life, how satisfied would you be with your final hours?

Today was a public holiday, so I had no class. I began the day with an early run in the mist and cold, which was wonderful, as we've just put the clocks back and it's finally light in the early hours of the morning again. I'll put up with longer hours of darkness in the evening as long as I can run in daylight in the morning.

Then I discovered a new bar/cafe that has free wifi (yep, still no router at home) and went there for several hours (basically until my battery died) going over the translations from the thesis chapter I'm revising. Then home, and lunch and a bit of German homework and reading of Harry Potter in German (I did five pages in about 15 minutes! I'm getting better).

After that I did yoga in my room for half an hour. I was going to do it for an hour, but I didn't realise that aerobic exercise aside, I'm really out of shape, and so I did less than I intended. But I still felt great afterwards.

Then I cooked roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes and Spanish onion for dinner while chatting to thelxiepia and reading forums where the users snark fundamentalist cults. After eating, I got infuriated with the wifi at home and returned to the cafe/bar, which is where I am now. I'm in #btts for the first time in a month, and I'm glad I did so.

In answer to the second part of the question, yes, although it's not simply because I had an enjoyable and productive day. It's because I have a personal philosophy of embracing and owning all my emotions, and accepting that I'll have good days and bad, and that the bad days are as important to me as the good. It's not so much 'live each day as if it will be your last', but 'live a life that encompasses the whole range of human emotions and experience'. So if I'd spent today sitting glazed-eyed in front of the computer, eating chocolate while wearing my pyjamas, I'd still consider myself satisfied with my final hours.


Day 2. Who are you? In comparison to who you used to be. What made you change?
Day 3. Where have you been spending your time lately? Three/Five/Ten years ago would you have expected to be there?
Day 4. What do you think it means to be in love?
Day 5. Pick a song that projects the same mood as your day or week and explain.
Day 6. Talk about a recent experience that has affected you greatly and how.
Day 7. Think of the last person you hugged. What would you do if they vanished completely?
Day 8. Write about the first moment that comes to your head when you read the words “childhood memory”
Day 9. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Day 10. Did you have a good day or a bad day? Where do you think that defining line was?
Day 11. Do you feel protective over someone?
Day 12. If you could trade places with anyone for one week, who would it be and why?
Day 13. Where do you see your best friend in 10 years?
Day 14. When you are stressed, what can you use as an outlet? Why do you think it helps you?
Day 15. What do you believe in? And not just God or atheism.
Day 16. What are you passionate about?
Day 17. Who was the last person you kissed? (If you are still with them now, pick the person before them.) What would they say if they saw you now?
Day 18. Talk about your extended family. Why do you think they are the way they are?
Day 19. If you could be anywhere in the world, but you had to be there for a certain cause, where would you be and why?
Day 20. Again, pick a song that projects the mood of your week or day.
Day 21. Look back. Why did you choose this challenge? Do you think it says anything about you?
Day 22. How do you think people see you? Be a little negative and a little positive.
Day 23. Explain your life plan for the next month, then the next year, then three years, then five years.
Day 24. Are you more social or independent? Why do you think that is?
Day 25. What do you think it means to be a good parent?
Day 26. Talk about a moment where you were truly happy. What was happening? Who were you with?
Day 27. Is there a friend you are worried about? Why do they have you concerned? Do you think they’ll be okay?
Day 28. Would you rather someone tell you the truth up front but gently, or be lied to to spare your feelings?
Day 29. If you could be doing the same things you do now, only in your own way, how would a normal day in your life go?
Day 30. Look back on this last month and talk about it.

Edited to correct a spelling error in the copy-pasted meme questions.