The Challenge – Day 1

A friend of mine is doing this 10-Day Diary Challenge. I’ve been struggling with what to write lately, so I thought I’d give it a try.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot to you. (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two words that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

Day 1: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.

1. I would have thought that the broken hip would be a wake-up call, a sign that your lifestyle isn’t working. Stop drinking, do your physical therapy, lose the weight that you need to lose to live long enough to see your great-grandchildren. I know life has been incredibly difficult for you, but isn’t that all the more reason to enjoy the good things in life? And for the love all that is holy, stop calling him Billy. He may look extraordinarily like his father, but he is not the same person.

2. Please do not offer me insights to my character. You may remember my childhood one way, but facts don’t really matter. It’s all about perception. Some of my most vivid memories are of you yelling at me for spilling your damn beer. Whether you remember that or not. I think sometimes that we’re just too alike to get along.

3. Sometimes I look at where we are and can’t believe how much our life has changed in the last seven and a half years. It’s exciting though, and I’m looking forward to the next seven and a half years. I wonder where we’ll end up? What else could I possibly say to you that I don’t tell you every day? I love you and you’re my best friend.

4. Please just stop talking. No more stories that highlight how great you are. All you’re doing is showing everyone that you’re full of yourself!

5. I worry about you. You seem to disappear sometimes for no reason and reappear just as inexplicably. I hope you’re taking care of yourself, but I don’t think you have as much concern for your own well-being as you should.

6. I wish I could ask you if you remember me as vividly as I remember you. Was I imagining that connection? I don’t think I imagined anything. I would love to see you and talk to you again. Maybe when I come back to Connecticut, I’ll work up the nerve to visit campus.

7. Communication is key! How is it possible that you talk to your son 2,000 miles away, but not to the son that’s living in the same house?

8. What am I going to do about you? Do you have these same conflicts? Sometimes I feel like you do. You certainly give off that vibe. Other times, not so much. Stupid fickle, flirty Sagittarius that you are.

9. Stop writing books. You’re incredibly bad at it. Your characters are flat and your ‘heroines’ the epitome of uselessness. You’ve single-handedly destroyed two literary genres and made an entire generation of girls believe that it’s okay to be in an abusive relationship where you let your man do everything.

10. To the soul who will one day be my Anika or Hunter: Please come soon.

~Liz