In a lifetime, everyone should complete some worthwhile things. Here’s my list of things I’d like to accomplish. Red items have been completed.
1. Make a snow angel
2. Hike in the woods overnight
3. Skydive
4. Visit the Louvre
5. Walk on stilts
6. See the Pyramids
7. Recite poetry in front of an audience
8. Watch a Hawaiian sunrise
9. Make love on a beach
10. Skinny dip
11. Bike ride for 30 miles
12. Karaoke
13. Sing all verses and choruses of “American Pie”
14. See Stonehenge
15. Create something that lasts forever
16. Love someone unconditionally
17. Have friends you care about
18. Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge, playing “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” driving the speed limit, and watch the song end at the end of the bridge
19. See Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Theatre
20. Write a love letter
21. Fight for a cause
22. Line dance at a hole-in-the-wall country bar
23. Kiss the Blarney Stone
24. Visit Japan
25. Understand Buddhism
26. Adopt a kitty from a shelter
27. Write a song
28. Buy flowers for yourself
29. Line up The Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon
30. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
31. Hit someone in the face with a pie
32. Have a child
33. Let go of something you really love
34. Donate to charity
35. Help someone who doesn’t even know they need it
36. Become an avid Goodwill shopper
37. Ditch work and act like a kid all day
38. Go for a master’s in some combination of communication and journalism
39. Have an outside wedding in May with lots of sterling roses, lace carpet & simple dress
40. Become a cool Grandma
41. Live downtown
42. Knit everyone I love something special
43. Revisit both my Grandmothers’ graves
44. Buy a house
45. Tour Europe (Paris and Italy, a must)
46. Swim with dolphins
47. Slept under the stars
48. Get drunk with friends while gossiping all night
49. Have a food fight
50. Call in sick when you’re not
51. Given your number to a complete stranger
52. Scream, kick, yell, cry–all over something incredibly stupid
53. Live a fantasy
54. See an eclipse
55. Adopt an accent for the day
56. Visit your ancestors graves
57. Visit all 50 states
58. Participate in a 10K
59. Dance with a stranger in a foreign country
60. Watch whales in the wild
53. Stolen a sign or a construction cone
54. Take a road trip with no chosen destination
55. Go rock climbing
56. In a restaurant, sit at a stranger’s table and eat a meal with them
57. Lounge around in bed all day
58. Kiss in the rain
59. Gone to a drive-in theatre
60. Quit your job with no notice because you should
61. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
62. Have a profitable craft business
63. Watch the Star Wars trilogy all in one afternoon
64. Crash a party
65. Bake cookies
66. Get a tattoo of your name in Japanese
67. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
68. Record your own music
69. Played in the rain
70. Win a limbo contest (or come second)
71. Fluently speak another language
72. Overdraw your account
73. Revisit childhood memories
74. Call, write or email your Congress person
75. Sing loudly in the car with the windows down without carring
76. Reaquaint with a lost, close childhood friend
77. Mend a broken heart
78. Drive any land vehicle at a speed greater than 100mph
79. Ride a horse
80. Canoe down a river
81. Build a set with your hands and hammer
82. Eat sushi
83. Spend more quality time with family
84. Have a healthy, robust debate over something you feel passionate about
85. Read the unabridged version of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables
86. Dye your hair
87. Create your own board game
88. See a movie that made your soul hurt and choose to watch it again
89. Sing a solo in public, while sober
90. Listen to criticism with an open mind and let it improve you
91. Put your own dialogue to a tv show in another language
92. Want to be a rock star
93. Dance around the house in your underwear like Top Gun, and dance and sing
94. Admit when you’re scared
95. Make your own clothes
96. Learn to swing dance; and love it!
97. Get out of relationship that’s making you miserable
98. Lay in a field of clover
99. Lead a healthy lifestyle of good diet and plenty of exercise
100. Love yourself with complete honesty, truth and respect
Be inspired.
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