Losing oneself has positive and negative connotations. Who doesn’t want to get away for a short while? To forget about themselves and their problems (which appear so small and inconsequential from far away)?
On the other hand, after everything is said and done, it might be difficult for one to find oneself again. Here are sixteen good and bad ways to lose yourself:
1. Find a forest. Walk around until you don’t know where you are.
2. Find train tracks. Hop on. Let the train take you somewhere you’ve never been. Don’t look back.
3. Draw a picture. Don’t think—just draw.
4. Believe in something you know isn’t true.
5. Close your eyes. Jump up and down. Flap your arms.
6. Sing. Doesn’t have to be a song you know. Doesn't have to be words. Imagine you’re an angel and your voice can bring dead people back to life. Keep singing.
7. Give your heart/mind/body/soul to someone who doesn’t deserve you.
8. Try to write a sentence without using words. Send this to everyone you know. Laugh as they try to figure out what it means.
9. Chase after someone else’s dream. Forget you have your own.
10. Say your own name until you don’t recognize it anymore.
11. Learn how to play an instrument. Write music.
12. Date someone you’re madly in love with. Become an “us”.
13. Wait until it's nighttime. Go outside. Lie on the ground. Look up at the stars—at the enormous, bright Universe—and remember how small you are.
14. Read a good book.
15. Do lots of drugs.
16. Hold on very tightly to who you think you are. Say you’ll never change.
