Top 10 Things to Write Instead of a ‘Top 10’ List
Hint: There’s more than ten.
One astonishing concept or phenomenon you’ve gone your whole life without recognizing and which you, in your new awareness, are still challenged even to name.
Two delicate and evanescent beings you rarely pause to observe.
Three things you thought you needed to achieve to “get ahead in life” but that turned out to be moot.
A quadrant diagram of the “prisoner’s dilemma” of what might happen if you are (or are not) nice to a stranger who will (or won’t) be nice to you.
Five statements with which you mostly agree but which need to be slightly rephrased.
A “six-word novel.”
Seven dreams or nightmares you happen to remember, not necessarily because they were the “top” dreams, but just because your brain selected them in mysterious and capricious ways.
How you feel when you listen to eight particular “oldies” for which you have an unironic love and whose song titles you have no need to share publicly.
How you can “show up” to support nine other people.
How someone with lots of resources can take a simple action that might empower ten other people to be able to care for themselves.
Something of which you desire more than ten, like blueberries.
Thank you to White Owl on Twitter for the idea.
