Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Things To DO Before I Die




Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that is why they call it present- Kung Fu panda ;)

I always had the fear that when I am 70 years old and look back on my life that I will think "ok what have I done in the last 70 years?" and so I created my own list of things I really want to do before I die.

This is my personal list of things I want to do before I die. Some of them I already did but I wrote them nevertheless because I think that they are very important things to do.
  1. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
  2. Swim with a dolphin.
  3. Skydive.
  4. Have your portrait painted.
  5. Learn to speak 5 languages and make sure you use them too.
  6. Be an extra in a film.
  7. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
  8. Own a room with a view on the sea.
  9. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a backpack, and run away.
  10. Send a message in a bottle.
  11. Ride a camel into the desert.
  12. Plant a tree.
  13. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
  14. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
  15. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
  16. Be the boss.
  17. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.
  18. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
  19. Write the novel you know you have inside you.
  20. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home.
  21. Shower in a waterfall.
  22. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.
  23. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
  24. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
  25. Experience weightlessness.
  26. Sing a great song in front of an audience.
  27. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.
  28. Drive across America from coast to coast.
  29. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
  30. Sleep under the stars.
  31. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!
  32. Go wild in Rio during Carnival
  33. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
  34. Learn to juggle with three balls.
  35. Find a job you love.
  36. Overcome your fear of failure.
  37. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
  38. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
  39. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
  40. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
  41. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
  42. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
  43. Attend one really huge rock concert.
  44. Attend a really huge festival ( at least 3 days).
  45. Give to a charity -- anonymously.
  46. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
  47. Create your Family Tree.
  48. Run a marathon.
  49. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.
  50. Set a foot on each continent.
  51. Trek through the jungle on an elephant.
  52. Dive with sharks or whale sharks.
  53. Dance tango in Argentina.
  54. Publish an article about your travels.
  55. Volunteer abroad for a month.
  56. Visit the source of one of the world's greatest rivers.
  57. Photograph an endangered species to see how fragil life can be.
  58. Cross your country using public transportations.
  59. Spend a night in an expensive 5-star hotel.
  60. Visit every capital city in Europe.
  61. Ride a gondola in Venice.
  62. Visit Mona Lisa in the Louvre.
  63. Learn how to waterski.
  64. Learn fencing.
  65. Learn to say HELLO in 50 different languages.
  66. Learn to play piano so good to play For Elise and the Mondscheinsonate(Beethoven).
  67. Own 1000 books and have an own room for them.
  68. Learn to sing opera.
  69. Be in a band.
  70. Go rock climbing.
  71. See the Northern Lights ( aurora).
  72. Make a boot tour in the fjords.
  73. Visit the Caribbean.
  74. Visit New Orleans.
  75. Go to the Oktoberfest.
  76. Visit the Alhambra in Spain.
  77. Visit the Pyramids in Egypt.
  78. Visit Stonhedge.
  79. Visit the Metropolitan Museum Of Arts in New York.
  80. Walk on the Wall of China.
  81. Visit Machu Picchu ( Peru).
  82. See the Taj Mahal in India.
  83. Go to the Universal Studios in Hollywood.
  84. Finish university.
  85. Learn to read Tarot cards.
  86. Win against my friends in billiard.
  87. Take up photography.
  88. Discover what makes you truly happy.
  89. Find my passion.
  90. Eat just organic food for at least a week.
  91. Don't use a car for a month.
  92. Shop at Harrold's.
  93. Charter a yacht.
  94. Buy an unique art work in a gallery of a famous painter.
  95. Make spontaneously a weekend trip to another country.
  96. Go on a safari.
  97. Hide all the clocks in your house.
  98. Drink the sunset.
  99. Make an absolutely ridicolous thing.
  100. Photograph love and war.
  101. Learn to meditate.
  102. Work at a nightclub.
  103. Have an unworldly love.
  104. Visit the castle made of Ice.
  105. Earn an absurd nickname.
  106. Rent a Tree House for a night.
  107. Write a song for someone.
  108. Love someone you don't know.
  109. Paint a Vw Van hippie style.
  110. Give your parents their dream voyage.
  111. Ride in a Helicopter.
  112. 4-wheel the sand dunes.
  113. Fly First Class wearing weird clothes.
  114. Always pretend you know what your doing.
  115. Swim in crystal clear water.
  116. Hold a large snake.
  117. Sing a song to make someone smile.
  118. Play an instrument on the street.
  119. Jump in a body of water fully clothed.
  120. See the Cirque Du Soleil.
  121. Yell at someone in a different language.
  122. Get Dreads.
  123. Camping with friends.
  124. Sing random songs with friends in a supermarket.
  125. Party and sleep on a roof.
  126. Hug 100 people.
  127. Do horse riding- blindfolded.
  128. Kiss in the rain.
  129. Dye my hair a bright colour.
  130. Dance in the rain.
  131. Stay up for 48 hours straight.
  132. Get revenge on someone.
  133. Get a tattoo (tasteful only!).
  134. Donate blood.
  135. Dye your hair green.
  136. Milk a cow.
  137. Ride in a limousine.
  138. Book a flight with really short notice and just go.
  139. Sign an autograph for a stranger.
  140. Experience 24 hours of daylight.
  141. Be brutally honest with someone.
  142. Learn to say no and not feel guilty.
  143. Slap someone when they deserve it.
  144. Change someone's life.
  145. Visit Japan.
  146. Eat at a famous chef's restaurant.
  147. Keep in touch with true friends.
  148. Take a cooking class.
  149. Own a piece of designer clothing.
  150. Hug a tree.
  151. Make 1,000 people smile.

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3 comments:

  1. Hello Veronika,

    You want to do several things. I would like to do some of them. For example, I would like to visit the Taj Mahal in India and to go on a safari. I hope that you will can do all of them before you die. I should do a list like yours me too... Bye!

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  2. Hey, Vera! They are really cool plans!!
    I want to do 18,60~62,80 and so on!! If I can, with you^^ You must come to Japan, so 145 will be true :) If you want, you can do 21,22,145 at the same time because we have some spots of ghost in Japan and normaly, it's always close to the place we have a lot of water like the waterfall. I can show you, but I don't want to do that with you^0^; Good luck!

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  3. @Louis: yes I always wanted a list like this because there are always so many things I want to do but I always think that I am too young, but then later I will be too old. So I made a list to see on one view what I want to do. For me the propose of this list is to remind me that I really have to live my life and not just survive it.

    @ MIZUKI:

    Yes, I would love to make all of this things with you!!
    number 145 is sure! and I hope number 60 too(because this includes also other numbers such as 62 and 61)!!

    You have to visit me as soon as possible!



    thanks for all your comments!

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