The final bullet point is scratched out, as if — in a "Back to the Future" way — my fifth-grade self wished to save me from disappointment after she discovered there wasn't anyone in school who spoke Afrikaans.
If you struggle with this aspect of your life, write it down and hang it up somewhere, or make it your screen saver and read it aloud every time you catch your self "wishing".
It feels like school has begun again after a year of summer vacation (don't our younger selves wish) and I finally get to see all my friends again.
ăd-opto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to take to one's self by wish, choice (optando); to choose, select.
In other words, your self-image in your shelf is not always the self you wish to project — it can be the project of your self-to-be.
I often think back with a protective tenderness towards my younger self and wish I were somehow able to dissuade him from such a mutilation, from breaking the blood-air barrier in that crazy way.
As a one-night stand turns into something more, the film explores the notion that to meet someone new, not least a potential partner, is also to rethink who you are, an invitation to shape and refine the self you wish to project.
Life Management Platforms like Meeco focus on not just the larger entities like accounts, but also the smaller data items like brand preferences, your quantified self, your wish lists, and how you connect, collaborate and communicate.
If we think of a person as consisting of multiple selves (the present self who wishes to indulge in transient pleasures versus the future self who wishes to be healthy, as we assume in our model), the present self's choices can force externalities on the future self.
Whether you want to call it universal flow, your higher self, angel wishes or fairy dust, you must step out of the way and allow the magic to happen.
