The 8 p.m. Manifesto

A few nights ago, Mr. Mersy and I had a great, long talk.  We haven't been thriving here in NYC, but we really, truly want to thrive.  We've been hiding inside our house, our heads, and our hearts, but we don't want to be recluses.  We've come to think that we need to be bent and molded by this city rather than allowing ourselves to be exactly who we are- something the rest of the nutty population of New York seems to have no trouble with!  Perhaps we've been stuck in a stage of culture shock for months and months.

So we sat down and created a manifesto.  A revolution just for us, beginning on a Thursday evening, sometime around 8 p.m., in a tiny kitchen in Queens.  And here's what we've come up with- a whole bunch of tiny things that, put together, are going to let us be outrageously ourselves:

We're going to start waking up much earlier.

We're going to drink green smoothies.

We're going to exercise.

We're going to talk to each other about all the interesting things we've been discovering.

We're going to be academic.

We're going to be musical.

We're going to take a class together.

We're going to get our bottoms to church.

We're going to meditate every night.

We're going to find a place to live where there's grass.

We're going to plan a trip together.

We're going to revel in multilingualism.

We're going to continue to throw out all of our clutter.

We're not going to worry about not fitting in.

We're going to practice kindness.

There's a lot more to the manifesto- it will probably be amended for years to come.  We've started our revolution, and it's already changing the way we look at our everyday.  We're coming out of our shells and realizing that we don't need to leave ourselves behind just because we're in a place we don't understand.  We pinkie swore that we'll finally begin to be exactly who we are.

What's on your manifesto?

Love,

~Mersydotes