Because it just seems to be the thing to do, Sunday I started working on my Life List. I have been following Maggie Mason and her Life List Adventures and had just about decided to start a list of my own when Chookooloonks posted her list.
I only glanced at the first few things on Chookooloonks’ list because I didn’t want to copy. But I reached a lull some where around #60, so I started looking around at what other people had listed, including Chookooloonks. What I was surprised to discover was how so many of us have the same or similar things on our lists.
Also, I was surprised at just how difficult writing the list could be. It started out to be really easy and at what point I thought about making it my “50 things I want to do before I die” list because I know there are things that I will probably never get a chance to do. But this is where the list becomes important. The list is like a pact I’m making with myself to live each day to the fullest. It’s a promise to get up and get out there and just do something. Any thing.
I’m up to #91 on the list, so I’m not ready to post it. But here’s the first 50 (no particular order)
- Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
- Grow my own vegetables
- Move out of the state I am currently residing
- Learn to really use my camera
- Live like a native in France
- Learn to speak a foreign language fluently (preferably French, if I plan on living like a native).
- Visit all fifty states (I have 19 down, 31 to go!)
- Learn to scuba dive
- Take a Zumba class (because I think it would be hilarious)
- Learn Ashtanga yoga
- Go kayaking with whales
- Hike parts of the Oregon trail
- Learn to surf
- Go snow skiing at least once
- Go on a cross country trip on my Vespa
- Learn to make cheese
- Get my bicycle fixed and ride it!
- Travel on Route 66
- Visit Yosimite
- Taste 100 new wines
- Learn Acupuncture
- Raise some chickens
- Have a Beach Blanket Bingo themed party at the lake
- Buy a good swimsuit (I’ve avoided the purchase of any swimsuit for the last three summers)
- Learn to drive a standard
- Take a small engine repair class and learn how to do my own scooter repairs
- Read Bhagavad Gita all the way through
- Memorize the Yoga Sutras
- Visit Yellowstone
- See Mt. Rushmore
- Ride elephants in Thailand
- Camp on the beach
- Learn to make gravy
- Tour the Grecian islands
- Take my mom to Ireland
- Buy and refurbish a n old 50s styled camper
- Go hang gliding
- Be in a play
- Sing on stage
- Have a dinner party
- Learn how to make tofu
- Grow my hair out really long and then cut it all off for charity
- Design a Threadless shirt
- Learn how to can foods
- Learn to make pickles
- Try 52 new recipes
- Taste 100 different kinds of loose leaf tea
- Learn to play poker
- Be in New Orleans on Halloween
- Learn to fly an airplane
Here’s to life! Happy Love Thursday!
brilliant!
I can teach you how to make gravy.
and drive a standard.
when the time is right.
The cheese and the tofu I can help with.
This is a fantastic list.
I too would like to live like a Native in France.
Oh and the pickles and canning. Got that.
Visit the Asian Market over off S. 89th… you’ve never seen so many canned great things you don’t recognize.
Come visit me this summer and we’ll go camping on Fire Island’s Watch Hill Beach. I already have plans to do that myself. What? You are already coming to visit this summer? Well, then just stay a couple of extra days.
Did I mention you can also go nudie on this beach?
Wake up on the beach and run naked straight into the ocean.