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Old Oct 19, 2007, 10:05 AM
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My favorite story is my changing majors in college in 1971 and graduating with a different degree in 1972 than I had decided I wanted in 1966. In 2001 I was thinking about my life and pretending I was 85 and looking back on my life (from 2035 :-) and asked myself what I would "regret". I wondered what happened to my first love, the subject I turned away from in 1971! I just got my second BA this May in that subject :-) 35+ years later.

Look at some other things, try out whole bunches of options; writing, art, crafts, computers, "thinking", etc. I use to read the yellow pages :-) and leaf through imagining what life would be like if I were a ______________ and looking for occupations/ideas I'd never heard of/had before. Think of things you don't like and figure out why or try them anyway to see if they're "empty" prejudices. There are lots of things I "decide" I don't like but I have never really looked at, studied, done, eaten, etc. them so how can I know???? Eat something you think you don't like and know for sure why you don't like it :-) Lots of stuff is left over from when we're kids or from what our friends or family did/didn't like. My absolute favorite "game" is going into a grocery store and looking for/buying ONE thing just for me, the one thing in the grocery store I want at that moment. I found some really good, different candy one day that way, stashed in the corner of the candy aisle where they were hard to spot because they weren't a big, known brand of anything usual.
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