Before I die
May. 18th, 2007 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ursulav posted a request for people to list out things that they thought everyone should do at some point in their lives, so that she could compile a 'Things to Do Before I Die' list. I couldn't really contribute -- are there things that everyone should do before they die? (She did add the caveat that it wasn't really "everyone", more like "everyone who can't come up with a good reason not to", but still.) Hell, I was having trouble coming up with a list of things I want to do before I die. I used to have a pretty good list for that, but I've done most of them now, which is, in my humble opinion, a pretty good indication that I'm living right.
So what's left? Surely there must be things. I mean, yeah, if I were to die today, I'd consider myself to have had a pretty good life and all, but still, I've got a couple of years left even by the most alarmist of estimates (I'm going to die in a car crash, apparently, but that's another story). I ought to be able to come up with something.
So I've started my list below the cut. Presumably, as I continue to think about it, I'll add to it. Suggestions are welcomed, but not necessary. :)
1. Visit a country other than the one I was born in. (I've been to Texas and Key West, but those don't really count - they only *used to be* other countries.)
2. Figure out how they make sugar-free caramel.
3. Drink enough to forget knowledge gained for item #2.
4. Learn enough Spanish to be able to hold a conversation in Miami.
5. Finish reading Ellis' The Druids. (I might save that one for last.)
6. Write a novel, or at least enough short stories to make a collection.
7. Go to a BDSM club/play party.
8. Make something on a potter's wheel.
9. Go bowhunting.
10. Shoot a gun.
11. Visit all 50 states in the U.S.
12. Take a photography course, or otherwise learn to take pictures that don't suck.
13. Grow an herb garden.
14. Volunteer at the Humane Society or similar doggy thing.
15. Go to General Assembly.
16. Attend a Catholic Mass done in Latin.
17. Make it to Gnostic Mass in Kansas City, instead of just tellingmesniu that I want to go some time.
18. Go to a music festival.
...that's all I've got :( Oh well. Maybe more later.
ursulav posted a request for people to list out things that they thought everyone should do at some point in their lives, so that she could compile a 'Things to Do Before I Die' list. I couldn't really contribute -- are there things that everyone should do before they die? (She did add the caveat that it wasn't really "everyone", more like "everyone who can't come up with a good reason not to", but still.) Hell, I was having trouble coming up with a list of things I want to do before I die. I used to have a pretty good list for that, but I've done most of them now, which is, in my humble opinion, a pretty good indication that I'm living right. So what's left? Surely there must be things. I mean, yeah, if I were to die today, I'd consider myself to have had a pretty good life and all, but still, I've got a couple of years left even by the most alarmist of estimates (I'm going to die in a car crash, apparently, but that's another story). I ought to be able to come up with something.
So I've started my list below the cut. Presumably, as I continue to think about it, I'll add to it. Suggestions are welcomed, but not necessary. :)
1. Visit a country other than the one I was born in. (I've been to Texas and Key West, but those don't really count - they only *used to be* other countries.)
2. Figure out how they make sugar-free caramel.
3. Drink enough to forget knowledge gained for item #2.
4. Learn enough Spanish to be able to hold a conversation in Miami.
5. Finish reading Ellis' The Druids. (I might save that one for last.)
6. Write a novel, or at least enough short stories to make a collection.
7. Go to a BDSM club/play party.
8. Make something on a potter's wheel.
9. Go bowhunting.
10. Shoot a gun.
11. Visit all 50 states in the U.S.
12. Take a photography course, or otherwise learn to take pictures that don't suck.
13. Grow an herb garden.
14. Volunteer at the Humane Society or similar doggy thing.
15. Go to General Assembly.
16. Attend a Catholic Mass done in Latin.
17. Make it to Gnostic Mass in Kansas City, instead of just telling
mesniu that I want to go some time. 18. Go to a music festival.
...that's all I've got :( Oh well. Maybe more later.
