73 Things That Matter More Than Your Year 12 Exams
BuzzFeed - Latest 2014-10-08
Summary:
Australian students are preparing for their end-of-year-exams. Your future matters, but so do a lot of other things.
1. Spending a whole day doing nothing. 2. Baking. For no reason. 3. Calling your grandparents. 4. No really, call them. 5. Reading a book without knowing anything about it. 6. Falling in love. 7. Falling out of love. 8. Realising love is complicated. 9. Understanding what others are going through. 10. Understanding that you will go through the same thing. 11. Getting engaged with politics, if only for a few months. 12. *Caring* about your community's future. 13. Deciding to write a book. 14. Giving up on writing a book. 15. And then trying to write a book, again.
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16. Giving. 17. Working for charity, if only for a day. 18. Singing badly. 19. Singing well. 20. Finding your dream job. 21. Realising it's not your dream job. 22. And then finding another dream job. 23. Learning when to say "yes." 24. And how to say "no." 25. Memorising a movie scene. 26. Living a simple life. 27. Living a complicated life. 28. Learning how to give constructive criticism. 29. Learning how to take constructive criticism. 30. Flying a kite (it's actually really fun!) 31. Getting *way* too drunk. 32. Exercising your mind *and* body. 33. Learning how to do something really, really simple. 34. Like knitting. 35. Exploring your garden. 36. Or, if you don't have a garden, exploring your city. 37. Teaching someone else. 38. Letting someone else teach you.