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It has been one year since I made my 30 by 30 list –

Sometimes, I think that there’s enough in there for a book already, in my journey from that world to this. But, sometimes, I feel that I’m, in fact, standing in one place, staring at the hourglass that is my life running out of time.

So, I have decided to do more with the time I do have; the result is a list of thirty things I want to do before I’m thirty. The interesting thing about my 30 by 30 list is that every single thing on it looks impossible today. As impossible as being ‘the man I am’ would have looked to ‘the boy I was’ fifteen years ago.

In the worst case, I’ll give up on the list in a few weeks. Even if don’t, I’ll probably be able to do less than ten things on the list by the time I’m thirty. But, if I do manage to do all thirty, what a story it will be!

I first broke you into two,
Then neglected you for months,
Before ‘breaking’ you again,
In a Wordpress upgrade that went wrong.

To add insult to injury,
I have a second mistress now,
In addition to my first;
Between them, they almost own me.

But you remain my first love,
Dear Diary, and I often think of
The headiness I felt when
I first fell in love with you.

In short, I miss you much,
Even yearn for you at times.
So, if you let me, I’ll try
To make it up to you.

You’ll be my muse and
I’ll write once more, woo you
With poem, story, or essay;
If you let me, that is.