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[featherynscale]

Somehow, 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?

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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[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

What do you want to do before you die?

I could say things about travelling to exotic places or enduring physical challanges, but here's something more grounded.

Recreating masterworks of art with different colored icing on Pillsbury Toaster strudel, photgraphing it, and then eating it (because art should be edible, whenever possible). I have experience recreating Lovecraftian Mythos symbols (Elder signs, etc.), so "Starry Night" would be a challenge.

Other realistic goals would include publishing a comic book/graphic novel and writing a book.

[lordkalkin.livejournal.com]

well, if there's one thing I want to do before I die, it's figure out how to live forever.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

One strudel, or several laid out in a grid pattern?

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Now that is intriguing. I had only imagined a single strudel, but perhaps I'm missing the artistic impact of a grid of strudel.

I must think of this further.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

What do you want to do before you die? What, in your opinion, should everybody do at least once in their life?

I, like you, feel that I have done so much in just this time I have been alive. There really is nothing more that I would feel necessary to accomplish. There are things that would be nice, but I don't feel I need to do. I could die tomorrow and be complete.

Now, what everyone else should do at least once in their life? That's easy. Have sex. With more than just yourself. Just once. A really good, big, long orgasm should go along with that. Then they can die. Just like in horror flicks. Can't die until you've banged someone.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

But you've done that? :-P

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That's why I can die now... :-)

wink, wink, nudge, nudge

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I mean, with ... a partner?

Re: wink, wink, nudge, nudge

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

Current music: William Hung - She Bang

[hekatatia.livejournal.com]

I'm quickly knocking things off that list in recent years. Still, I want to write a book and earn my PhD. Beyond that things are too wide open right now to say... I'll see where the roads lead and set more goals from there.

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's an easy one. Watch Sir Dynamo accept his award from the Academy then woosh away to finish the tour of his triple platinum Grammy winning album while putting the finishing touches on his autiobiography that is expected to go to number one on the New York Times Bestselling list that publishers pushed each other over getting signed and that he personally did the artwork for the cover... or, you know, I'd also be able to die when he comes home for a visit after graduation and he's in a nice career that he loves and looks at druidevo and I and says, "Dad, Mom, I'm happy."

[zylch.livejournal.com]

(reposted to correct a critical typo...)

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.

I had to think about this one

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

What do you want to do before you die?
I want to see my kids grown up and living happy lives.

What, in your opinion, should everybody do at least once in their life?
That one is tougher. I'm usually willing to let people live their lives as they see fit, as long as they are willing to return the favor.
I guess my best response would be that everyone, at some point, needs to step out of their comfort zone willingly (as opposed to being pushed out) to try something new.

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Q) What do I want to do before I die?

A) Anything I say here can will be held against me in a court of law (or more likely a civil court) ... but at this point in my life, this question becomes more "Who do I want to do before I die?" and the list is fairly long as it includes several people who need to be killed (in one sense of "to do" someone) and a few more that I'd like "to do" in another sense.

*sigh*

So much for high-mindedness, eh?


Q) What should everybody do at least once in their life?

A) Have the absolute trust of another person ... it's both chilling and empowering at the same time. So far, I've seen this only rarely from somebody who was not a child. It seems as we grow old and disillusioned, we value the trust others place in us more and more yet find it far more difficult to give.

What do I want to do before I die?

[biscuitgod.livejournal.com]

Two things, both have to do with my senses being in the "fully-on" position. 1. hang glide 2. Primal, instinctual sex...no inhibitions, no thinking...the need for it coming from a place that has a mind of its own...the "Pan" effect.

Simple things,

[teross50.livejournal.com]

Go back to Coronado Island for a week or so.
Go to Dolphin Island as well.
be debt free again.
see both boys grown, and living well on their own.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Mine was write a novel. Checkity. As for the other, I'm not sure there's one thing for everybody.

Re: wink, wink, nudge, nudge

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

After 21 years I was able to... ;-P

Ditto that, love...

[wildnsquirrelly.livejournal.com]

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.

My immediate goal is to stop being so impatient to create new icons that I do it here with paint rather than wait 'till I get home & get to use The Gimp.

School is right around the corner and between getting licensed and possibly getting my teeth fixed I think I'll be able to pull off a lovely 'Himbo' routine in the M.T. field.

More importantly I want to see my kids happy and (relatively speaking) successful.

For other folks? Get out & meet people from different cultures. That could mean getting to a different side of town or a different side of the planet depending on your resources. You don't have to like them, just look for the humanity that binds us together before being too judgmental.

[duriyah.livejournal.com]

I'm going to take inspiration from 8elements and say I'd like to have a really good, full-body orgasm during sex with another person, as good as the ones I can have by myself. Then I can die.

As for everyone? I guess I'd leave that up to the desires of each person.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I think the only thing I'd ask everyone to do is "try looking at it from the other side's point of view, just once". If eerybody gave that one good solid college try (okay maybe that's not the best analogy), I think it'd lighten the load on the planet a lot.

Other than that, I got nothing. People are too different, yano?

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Personally, I Have Three Things I Want To See (Stonehenge, Iceland, And The Fog In San Fransico), One Person From My Past I'd Like To See And Show Her How I Turned Out, And I Would Like To Have A Child.

Overall, I Think Everyone Should At Least Develope Some Kind Of Drive To Better Themselves, To 'Do More'. However, If You Don't Have that Drive, You Won't Care About A List Like This, And If You Do Have That Drive, You're Already Past That, So It's Kinda A Moot Point.