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Jul. 19th, 2006 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
featherynscaleSomehow, my glorious week of no commitments in the evenings until social events Friday and Saturday became a meeting on Monday, a class on Tuesday followed by a "working" dinner, and a meeting on Wednesday. Oh well. At least, er, Thursday is gloriously clear?
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triadruid this morning that I supposed that if I stopped doing things all the time, then I might die, and it wasn't worth testing it.
In other news, while I was doing last night's class,kittenpants and triadruid were browsing the stacks at Borders and reading from a book about things you should do before you die. This sort of thing always eats at me, because I'm not terribly goal-oriented. If I had been in the car scene in Fight Club where everyone had to say what they wanted to do before they died before Tyler Durden would pull the car out of the oncoming traffic, we'd have had a head-on right there. I got nothing. I've done more than I feel like I have any right to have done, and anything else at this point I consider to be icing.
What about you guys? What do you want to do before you die? What, in your opinion, should everybody do at least once in their life?
I told
triadruid this morning that I supposed that if I stopped doing things all the time, then I might die, and it wasn't worth testing it. In other news, while I was doing last night's class,
kittenpants and triadruid were browsing the stacks at Borders and reading from a book about things you should do before you die. This sort of thing always eats at me, because I'm not terribly goal-oriented. If I had been in the car scene in Fight Club where everyone had to say what they wanted to do before they died before Tyler Durden would pull the car out of the oncoming traffic, we'd have had a head-on right there. I got nothing. I've done more than I feel like I have any right to have done, and anything else at this point I consider to be icing. What about you guys? What do you want to do before you die? What, in your opinion, should everybody do at least once in their life?
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Date: 2006-07-19 08:15 pm (UTC)I suppose there's a decent number of things that I'd like to do, but there's nothing in particular that I'd say "Oh, no, I can't believe I died without doing that!" And it's not that I've already done everything that's absolutely necessary, either -- I've done a lot of interesting things, but nothing that I thought I had to do before I died.
As for what people ought to do, I think everyone ought to spend at least a month in a place which is utterly foreign -- dissimilar culture, limited communication (at least at first -- you can learn the language while you're there), etc. This time should not be in any way affiliated with the military or security forces. I've noticed that my friends who go to other countries toting guns or as family of people toting guns have significantly more negative experiences than the people who go as scholars or even just tourists. This should happen in late adolescence or early adulthood, and preferably on one's own.