This is inspiring! Let's see what's on my list...
-not being able to walk past a bookstore and ending up crying in there because I end up finding more books I want to buy than I can afford or carry.
-meeting up with a friend in a park or café, equipped with cherries to snack on and a ton of notes so we can study together
-carrying a notebook around in which I write poems, essays or sketch things that inspire me...i tried to dedicate it to just one thing but it's a mess now and i had to fix it with tape because it gets ripped often from being thrown into my bag
-not leaving the house without a book. usually i keep it in the pocket of my coat during winter or try to put it in the pockets of my pants during summer (or i carry a bag, if there is no other way)
-writing essays and speeches on how we can reform the school system and the whole society instead of the essays we are assigned
-already having read all the books we are supposed to read in English class
-spending the whole day and night researching something i am interested in, just to realise there is an exam the next day and i forgot to study
-having a google drive folder full of notes i share with all my friends in case they didn't pay attention during class
-always finishing writing group presentations on my own at home as soon as they are assigned so i can spend the time in class discussing politics with my friends
-signing up to tinder, not looking for a relationship or hookup but people i can have philosophical or political discussions with
-learning Italian so I can talk to old fishermen in Italy and have them tell me stories from their life
-taking at least one book and my laptop with me for every slightly longer trainride so i can work on projects or read instead of scrolling through tumblr for hours (even though that happens too...)
-writing letters like they did in the 18th century at my candlelit desk at 3 am and sending them to my friends (or keeping them in a box to read them again in a few years)
-sitting in a tree, reading until the sun goes down and i can't make out the words anymore while listening to Beethoven
-discussing my essays with my professors because i wrote about something they have never heard/thought of before
-sitting in a café for hours, ordering one coffee after the next while reading classical literature or writing poetry
-my great-grandma's blouses and jackets
-watching 5 documentaries in one day about a topic i just found out about because i need to know more
-my lock screen is my time table from school even though we are just having online classes now and it now longer applies
-not being able to watch the news silently because i need to discuss them with someone and get more information
-chaotic google notes with ideas, quotes, pictures, poems, links to interesting websites, to-do lists i never ticked off,...
-a lot of loose papers in drawers, bags or hidden between books
-poetry pinned to my wall, along with sea charts, museum tickets and vintage post cards
-going to the library to read rather than to take books home
-wanting to do a simple google search and look up 3 hours later with 50 tabs open
-too many notebooks, yet not enough
-going to antique/vintage markets and talking to the sellers
-interviewing people i know but being too anxious to ask strangers for interviews
-a lot of pictures i took during research / for documentations i forgot about
-watching lectures of universities around the world online
-ink-stained hands, no matter how often i wash them
-university entrance exam preparations for subjects i don't even want to study, just to see if i could do it
-accepting that i can't be top of the class in every subject and academia is not about being better than anyone but the person you were yesterday
-giving online classes about the history of fictional worlds just because it's interesting
-reading the play before going to the theatre (and often complaining about modern adaptations because they leave out the best parts and replace them with naked actors running around like wtf)
-pencil behind the ear while reading, just in case i need to take notes on anything
-old tea sets...a lot of them
-walking around the cemetery at night, whispering poetry to the dead and forgotten
-rants about how education should be free and available to everyone
...and writing this list instead of studying maths. ups. procrastination is real
