A big Inshallah (God Willing) on all of this:
5 Months (April to September) -
- Working in Afghanistan
- Regularly doing 5 Prayers
- Regularly meditating and/or doing yoga
- Regularly working out
- Go on a fun vacation, preferably by myself
- Pay off ALL student loans
- Have a sizeable savings (enough not to be stressed)
- Get married & have a baby, or begin adoption process or steal cousin H's baby (what? He's already potty-trained!)
- Write a novel
- Travel to Mongolia, Patagonia and lots of other places
- Be closely involved in a peaceful, joyful Afghanistan
- Write a collection of short stories in Dari
- Learn Pashto
- Own my home
- Travel to many countries
Inshallah, Inshallah, Inshallah
I have been writing a post in my head about how nice my family in California is and how much I appreciated M for taking me out and about but I haven't written it out yet. I guess I'm feeling writeative now.
8 comments:
This "5's" idea really strikes a cord with me. I'll be pondering my own 5's for a while, so thanks for the incentive. My personal favorite of your "early" 5's is the marriage/baby thing - I'm crazy for the idea of you young 'uns having babies.
I think that was the one I felt most hesitant about sharing - but we'll see... :)
Pre-potty trained babies? That would be brilliant.
When you go to Mongolia, you must stay in a yurt. Because I love that word.
Yurt.
Delighted to see more than one of your plans involve writing.
I am sending Inshaallahs your way too.
You have beautiful, noble goals.
I plan to try and adopt my children. My boyfriend has a strong ethical position against having biological babies as long as there are already babies and children who need homes. I don't feel as absolutely as he does but I certainly agree that adoption is something I want to aim for. I met another of Aman's cousins who had adopted a beautiful Afghan baby, but she was not yet able to leave the country with him. That scares me a little bit. But I hope it will be resolved for her.
I also love that you have plans to write more - you already know how highly I think of your writing and the impact it has.
x
I'm glad you're feeling writeative again!
I love making lists like this and have reams of them. Never thought of organizing them thusly, though, in fives. Maybe I'll try it-- but don't know as I can post them.
I share all your five month goals and in fact will be back in Kabul May 26, until June 23. Share some of your five year goals, especially the novel one. I decided after seeing the Bill Maher show last night that I would like him to be my next husband, but I doubt that this will come to pass.
O: Dude, yeah. I love both potty-trained babies and yurts.
YURT.
H: Thanks friend, I am looking forward to reading your next post.
F: You're so kind, thank you. The baby that you mentioned is the one that I want to steal! :)
K: Thanks! Sharing these goals make me feel quite exposed and vulnerable - but I decided to share them anyway...I"m not going to Kabul this summer after all (see my most recent post). :( I'm very sad not to be able to meet you or Van...
I am constantly amazed by the courage great writers have to share themselves with their readers...
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