Let’s Do This…

[Quantum12]

 Nobody is coming to save you, so do what terrifies you the most. 

Go be wild, do something different. 

Start painting, use your imagination…

Leave your comfort zone…

I went skydiving last August in Hawaii. 18,000 feet. I had a fear of heights until I jumped. Something inside told me change only comes when fear leaves your soul. 

Go jump out of a plane…

Go visit a night club and start dancing wild and crazy…

Dye your hair some funky color…

Paint you nails, I painted my nails light green last week. The looks you get are shocking…

Write a crazy story. Use your coconut to create madness and post it in the Story Section…

Wear two different totally different shoes in public…

Drink Sage tea, it will clean out your soul…

Go out and smile at everyone, be super nice. Open doors for people…

Just do something different, it will change your life…

Please add to this post about odd things you will or have done…

[Maxmars]

I picked a store... one I visit for sundries...

I "help" everyone there.... everyone.

Looking angry? ... I make a joke.
Looking sad? I engage, soothe if I can.
Being happy?  I play with you.
Need something? I give what I can.
Looking lonely? I start a conversation... about nothing.

It's far simpler than the elaborate scripted and edited "show" charity
we love to watch on monetized YouTube, etc.
(And you don't need video or streaming equipment.)

Don't just "signal" virtue... reach for it.

This is reality... where the cameras don't go.
It's not always pretty... it doesn't always work out...

It's about reaching for it...
It's about sowing... not reaping.

[UltraBudgie]

this is exposure therapy

>> Go out and smile at everyone, be super nice. Open doors for people…

and this is practicing kindness

here is one that is scary

don't shirk eye contact

lean in to the knowing smile
without fearing the difference
between what your smile says you know
and theirs

don't preempt the opportunity for others
to be themselves afraid of going too far
if they want their circus
let them have it

[Quantum12]

@Maxmars

[b]I love your post! Thank you for this.[/b]

[Quantum12]

@UltraBudgie

Perfect!

[argentus]

@Maxmars

[b]I love your post! Thank you for this.[/b]

Your art work is amazing!   How was that done?  No, nevermind.   Don't tell me.   That would ruin the magic.  

I consider it my duty wherever I go where I live to squeeze a smile or a giggle out of people who seem determined to frown.   We all are fighting our inner demons, but sometimes, if a person takes a few minutes, just a few precious minutes out of their day and lifts up people, they can feel better.   

As you noted, the outrageous is an excellent tool for shock and awe...some!    I have taken to leaving small, humorous (I hope) signs randomly in all venues where I live.   I really don't know and have no way to measure if people see them or what they think of them.   One tight rictus mouth at a time.   Pah-raise Jesus!

[Good Bacteria]

Warmed my soul today as I was walking back from the grocery store and a lady kindly stopped me and asked what she should do for her persistent constipation. I melted that she could be that vulnerable with her hand out asking to be assisted.

I gave her everything that had worked for me and quite a few others that she said she had already tried. I told her she might want to go see a doctor if it persists.

I live alone and live life on my own. That was a nice twist on a typical morning grocery run and I came away wanting to do that and feel that more. It starts with me, understand that.

You make a great point. Don't let your days just melt into the next. DO a thing.

[Byrd]

I always try to leave store cashiers smiling or at least feeling better. I will crack a joke or compliment something they're wearing; something to perk up their day even a tiny bit.

As for unusual... hooooboy.  Well, I've done dinosaur digs and archaeology digs and done some rock art recording -- but I guess those aren't that unusual.  This week I'm trying to crochet a pirate vest (for the very odd reason that I lead a pickup shanty group (we live hundreds of miles apart so we don't get to practice but we do pirate shanty sing-alongs at conventions) and I need a good pirate vest.  Or a bad pirate vest.   Or even six strings tied together in a pretend vest.

We have a convention coming up soon, so I'm going to learn some paracord knots and teach kids how to make a simple "pirate bracelet."

But... I should challenge myself with something new.  Right now I need to go challenge myself with dinner.   I have no clue what I'm going to make.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Well, all my life changing decisions have always been impulsive, so in my case THINKING THINGS ALL THE WAY THROUGH would be doing something different.

I have an impulse that I've always considered a form of self-sabotage along these random risk-taking lines. Running from things at 6 months was my comfort zone to break it and it took not being impulsive and needing to justify a capricious change of wants, which absolutely disguised itself as needing to always do new things.

The wild me ultimately used that crazy impromptu behavior as an escape.  And sadly, the first time I allowed myself to trust something it ended in such pain it really taught me I was right all along to do whatever and not stay anywhere too long, or open up to others too deeply.

The hardest thing to do was to stop pushing the limits of risky behavior as a copout for not trusting people and keeping myself from getting hurt again. Because only I'm allowed hurt myself, and may no one ever see they hurt me. 

Sorta like this song stripped of the greater religious implications, where its better for yourself to not constantly gochaotic and reinvent the same thing.

[Quantum12]

@argentus 

You are a VERY creative soul. What you have inside is a mind blower. I have read your stories on  ATS. 

I just wanted to tell you that something you posted on ATS changed my thought process. You told someone to go out of their mind and write a story that is super creative. I will never forget. It was in 2016!

Thank you! 

Art comes in odd waves. I had a dry spell for two years. One day it just came back!