How to Find Uno

• Watch a sunrise all the way through.
• Sit somewhere beautiful until you stop checking the time.
• Talk to an old person and actually listen.
• Leave your phone alone for an entire afternoon.
• Walk barefoot on sand, grass, or dirt.
• Spend time with people who don't need you to be anyone else.
• Notice when you're rushing and ask, “Why?”
• Eat food with other people around a table.
• Learn the names of a few birds.
• Stop trying to win every conversation.
• Watch the moon for a month and notice it never really changes.
• Do something for no practical reason whatsoever.
• Sit beside the ocean and tell it your problems. (The ocean won't fix them, but you'll feel better.)
• Dance badly.
• Laugh loudly.
• Forgive yourself for being human.
• Spend less time proving yourself and more time being yourself.
• Find a feather, pick it up and place it in the bark of a nearby tree.
• Remember that not everything needs to be fixed.
• Remember that not everything needs to be understood.
• Remember that not everything needs to be earned.
• Notice that trees seem perfectly happy just being trees.
• Notice that children rarely worry about becoming enough.
• If completely lost, return to the sea and start again.
• Realise Uno was never hiding from you.
• Come home.

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