1. Emotional time travel:
Look for things that your nine-year-old self used to enjoy. Ask yourself some key questions. Is this something that my nine-year-old self will enjoy? Will my nine-year-old self be proud of the person I have become? How did life sound when I was nine?…
It is not to go backward but to bring back pieces we have lost growing up.
2. Eat what you love:
Make that comfort food that makes you feel secure, build an emotion around it, and just enjoy it without people looking at you or bothering you. Be comfortable in every bite and understand that you are being safe. It is not to make you feel bad; it is to provide a safe space you can control.
3. Try an alter ego:
Build this new person, give it a name, a backstory, a feeling, and life. Maybe you are a secretary who, at night, is a spy. A runaway time traveler who wants to fix his one timeline, or just a store owner who has a mysterious past. Be it and act like it for a couple of hours. The sky is the limit.
4. Make a personal letter:
Write to somebody that you have always wanted to say, but you feel scared about it. Make it crude, feral and honest. Don’t hide what you feel; put it all down and relieve yourself of that burden.
5. Learn an oddly specific skill:
Like how to tie five decorative knots, learn how to say the alphabet backward, learn origami, jewelry making, cloud watching, and the vast skill tree that we can have.
6. Make a “Fake memory” scrapbook:
Grab a random city, look for pictures, put captions on what you were doing there, and build your own unreliable narrator of that alternative timeline that you are living in.
7. Built a curated playlist:
Construct a playlist for someone, your past self, your future child, or that beloved pet that was an important part of your life.
8. Invent a holiday just for you:
Select that day, give traditions. What’s forbidden? Give rules, how they will apply in your life, and stick to them. Make it an important part of your life. This will make you have something to look forward to every year.
9. Pictures:
Make yourself a photographer and choose what you’re gonna take a picture of for a whole month. It can be every flower you see or cross path, every mermaid stuff, funny looking thongs, clouds, everything with the color orange, or what your mind wants. By the end of the month, choose the ones you love and put them on the social platform of your choosing.
10. Always have fun:
Make everything fun, passionate, and honest. This is you rediscovering yourself. Be kind to you and be kind to the universe.
This was written by our contributing writer, Miranda Joel.
Image Source: Pexels, Ciro Palomba
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