Sixty things I want to do in my life

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  1. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    Sixty things to do:

    1. Learn the guitar
    2. Meet someone from seinfeld (kramer!)
    3. Learn the drums
    4. Learn the sax (fusion band!)
    5. Travel to Japan
    6. Travel to Europe (Ireland, England, Germany, Denmark)
    7. Run a marathon (up to 13 miles)
    8. Learn karate or kung foo
    9. Travel to NZ or Aus.
    10. Travel to Oregon and Cali (and a lot of other US states)
    11. Fly in an airplane
    12. Learn to snowboard
    13. Re-learn computer animation and learn even better
    14. Learn to breakdance
    15. White water rafting
    16. Meditation techniques
    17. Become more of a handy man (like Tim Taylor minus the mistakes)
    18. Publish a book
    19. Help a less fortunate person out (than go from there)
    20. Sky dive
    21. Go to a college basketball final four
    22. Attend world cup soccer (germany 2006 maybe?)
    23. Run with the bulls
    24. Meet a comedian (jerry seinfeld) or musician (roger waters)
    25. UFO watching
    26. Apologize/forgive all those I may have hurt in the past
    27. Make a new friend at least once a month
    28. Come up with something innovative (in the process with a fellow forum friend)
    29. Scuba dive
    30. Kayak to this one island I have yet to get to
    31. Go to a major crew reggata
    32. Reconnect with at least one long lost friend, at the rate of a few a year
    33. Make somebodies day at least once a week
    34. Read the lord of the rings triolgy (and books in general)
    35. Travel to China (and the great wall of course)
    36. Hike the AT
    37. Egypt (those pryamids blow my mind)
    38. Tri-athalon
    39. Meet the love of my life (and just the feeling of changing someones life)
    40. Own a house
    41. Have a pet skunk (you can have operations to remove stink glands)
    42. Travel somewhere within Africa
    43. Dream control
    44. Eat authentic Chinese food
    45. Have at least one deep conversation a day
    46. Be a goof ball with one person a day
    47. Travel to Mexico and try authentic Mexican food and tequilla
    48. Get a poem published in a major magazine
    49. Meet someone from far away (like pen pals than actually meet them)
    50. Learn how to scale things (walls, ect and climbing in general)
    51. Graduate college (two years!)
    52. Learn something new every day
    53. Learn to cook
    54. Bike 100 miles
    55. Exp the sun set/rise from many different areas in the world and compile pictures
    56. Travel to at least one tropical place
    57. Become a better photogrpaher with old school cameras
    58. Eat authentic rice a roni while on those car things in SF
    59. Read up even more on psychology and philosophy, sociology and learn all the terms, ect.
    60. See an inactive volcano, up close
     
  2. adelic86

    adelic86 ~Music!~

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    lol, looks like we have some people with there lives already planned out, tho there are some real cool ambitions!!!
     
  3. Bikshu

    Bikshu Member

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    Things I'd like to do :
    1: Write an Operating System
    1.5: have a job with good money so I can do the next two things
    2: Buy a ranch in Colorado
    3: Devote my life to religion
     
  4. Flight From Ashiya

    Flight From Ashiya Senior Member

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    Ha,ha.You see the Pink Floydians are capable of so much more than the average rock fan.
     
  5. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    haha, what can i say, I just like having aspirations and dreams
     
  6. Bikshu

    Bikshu Member

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    but us dead heads are so much more spiritual
     
  7. SilverClover14

    SilverClover14 Senior Member

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    1. live in Spain (Madrid or Grenada... so I get to obsess over either the Prado and Reina Sofia or Lorca \m/)

    2. become more fluent in Spanish

    3. learn 2 languages fluently other than English and Spanish (Portuguese and either Russian, German, or Arabic)

    4. be able to at least read French decently

    5. travel a month through Europe

    6. go to England and not puke in a pub

    7. kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland

    8. learn to salsa, merengue, and cha cha

    9. go to Mexico for Spring Break... but the REAL Mexico, not Cancun

    10. attend religious services for all major world religions

    11. get into Brandeis

    12. go to law school at Yale or UPenn or NYU

    13. become an international lawyer or diplomat

    14. get married and have 4 kids

    15. have an elephant sanctuary in Africa or India

    16. travel in (the safe parts of) Africa

    17. visit the Wailing Wall in Israel

    18. bring my children up bilingual (English and Spanish)

    19. write a novel or children's book

    20. write a screenplay

    21. get a pHD in something

    22. change someone's life

    23. volunteer, volunteer, volunteer

    24. work in the Peace Corps (in South/Central America, especially Costa Rica teaching English) or Teach for America (teaching Spanish to inner city schools) in between college and law school

    25. road trip around the USA

    26. see la Tierra del Fuego

    27. learn to sew

    28. be able to play the guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and bass guitar

    29. learn to drive manual

    30. hold my grandchildren

    31. live in another country for more than a year

    32. see the cure for AIDS be found in my lifetime (not that I have any scientific talent to help find it..)

    33. talk to a homeless person and/or and elderly person and write their stories down and publish them so their lives are not lost

    34. go to a festival

    35. learn to sing decently

    36. spend a few days just wandering around the Smithsonian Institute

    37. meet George Bush and refuse to shake his hand

    38. be Secretary of State

    39. be a teacher or college professor

    40. see Angel Falls in Venezuela

    41. see Victoria Falls in the Congo

    42. marry the ruler of a small European country so I can afford to travel as much as I want (I would even settle with a Duke :p)

    43. be a memorable person

    44. watch every Almodovar movie in a row

    45. become an expert on the Spanish Civil War

    46. spit on Franco's grave

    47. visit the Louvre

    48. go to all the sites in England that could possibly be connected to the King Arthur legends

    49. see Mont St. Michel

    50. learn about all the Saints, even though I'm not Catholic

    51. not get a bruised butt every time I attempt to ice skate

    52. learn to ski and snowboard

    53. be the excentric neighbor who invites all the neighborhood kids over just to talk and have tea

    54. learn to make love, not just have sex (it's an art!)

    55. be able to paint

    56. publish a book or poem in another language

    57. become a Lorca scholar (ay mi, yo le amo a Lorca <3)

    58. lobby for gay rights until they are achieved

    59. learn to surf and scuba

    60. WORLD PEACE

    Wow... I can't believe I actually did that. :p
     
  8. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    That's really cool!!! My friend got 100! - wow. I was gonna stay at 50 but was reminded of a few and hit 60. I need to learn another langauge myself btw though, so that makes 61..

    But I liked your list
     
  9. crummyrummy

    crummyrummy Brew Your Own Beer Lifetime Supporter

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    I just want that guy to stop throwing feces at me.
     
  10. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    who is that?
     
  11. crummyrummy

    crummyrummy Brew Your Own Beer Lifetime Supporter

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    I am pretty sure it is one of the baldwin brothers, but he wears a fake mustache and it throws me off.
     
  12. bedlam

    bedlam Senior Member

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    l just want to be healthy..
     
  13. jahendie

    jahendie Member

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    well do it
     
  14. ElChivato

    ElChivato SeNioR MeMBeR

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    dude, i can't even keep my mind on one thing for 60 seconds, i don't think i can make a list of 60 things i wanna do with my life.
    *try acid
    *try shrooms
    that's as far as i can get...
    peace & love.
     
  15. Keepin'on

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    I have been told that the locals get a kick out of relieving themselves on the blarney stone when no-one is around,so you might want to think about that when you kiss it.
     
  16. Adgreyga

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    i know i made a list of things i want to do a couple of years ago, but yea i lost it (damn memory, or lack there of), so i made this one a few hours ago, and got really in to it, hoping i didnt forget anything. i thing i went over 60, though. okay so here goes, and btw its in no particular order:

    1. live in a foreign country (definatly Japan)
    2. publish at least one of my stories
    3. do screenwrite/screenplay for a movie
    4. act in a theatrical play
    5. do costume design for a theatrical play
    6. finish kung fu or (more so) learn iaido (samurai swordsmanship)
    7. go hardcore (-ish) camping for at least 5 days straight every year
    8. meet a comidian and talk with them (like George Carlin)
    9. keep in contact with close friends while still making more friends
    10. skydive and ride in a hotair balloon
    11. go to Disneyland (ive never went as a child)
    12. visit an american colonial historic place
    13. go stargazing
    14. visit the le grand louvre again (and see the whole thing, which takes months to do, as its the biggest museum on earth)
    15. scuba dive more than once & an actually see and entire sea/beach
    16. keep reading new, obsure books as well as well-known ones (next on my list- "the midnight disease"
    17. graduate college (im going for 5-6years)
    18. make a 7 course, french style dinner for someone special
    19. go somewhere tropic and stay for a long time, taking pictures/videos and meeting these people
    20. traveling across my own country and documenting all their ways of life
    21. do photography all over and write a book on them
    22. cook something from scratch everyday, even if its small (yesterday, homeade mocha frappucinos)
    23. travel and marvel on a mountain in Japan
    24. have a pet monkey and a pet wallabe
    25. take care/ give money to an endangered animal that ive had legally adopted (but may not nessisarily live with me; a panther, white tiger, giraffe)
    26. own my own house
    27. give and work with enviromentalists and animal protection organizations
    28. feed the hungry in Africa
    29. donate to charities/ (more so) help to create new charities
    30. learn how to fix a car (and other things)
    31. have the skill to create a great big treehouse and/or playhouse for my kids and nieces/nephews
    32. go to a concert festival and stay all day
    33. go to an old fashioned carnival
    34. meet the love of my life (ahh..) and stay together forever
    35. have at least one origonal comic book or graphic novel made by me
    36. steer (is it steer?) a boat to and island...and do something cool once i get there
    37. go to Eygpt (lovely stories from my Sudanese friends, Alyaa & Ezra who are sisters) and make sure i get henna(s) done there
    38. have real mexican and chinese food more than once in my life
    39. (of course, in Mexico and China)
    40. have kids (twins are cute, but it doesnt matter if i have twins or not, i just really think i am)
    41. have my stories made into movies
    42. see a sunrise and sunset somewhere tropic or somewhere in like Spain
    43. make sure i visit my aunt mira and grandmother occasionally
    44. go to Cali, the only place you can walk around in a bathing suit all day long
    45. train, ride, race, and witness the birth of a horse
    46. be there to witness the birth of a baby of someone close to me (maybe even my sister if she lets me)
    47. live in Spain for a period of time
    48. help coordinate and plan a wedding
    49. do fashion and interior design (having my own clothing/shoe line)
    50. design the wedding dresses for my sister and cousins and sister-in-law
    51. design my own house and houses for family members/friends
    52. act in a movie as a hero, villian or assasin (do some action and stunts, haha)
    53. go to a very, very formal event (id love to wear a long, silky dress to one)
    54. be a mentor
    55. cut down on eating meat and drinking milk
    56. learn to skii and kickbox (while getting better at snowboarding)
    57. become a pro with the Adobes (photshop, paint, illustrator, etc)
    58. learn to salsa and tango and get better with jamacan style dancing
    59. rock climb and actually finish
    60. spend a day or 2 on a farm
    61. write a book on my life and travelings (when i actually do them)
    62. study psychology and anatomy
    63. learn to play the drums and actually see my friend James (whould probally be the one to teach me) play in his band
    64. go fishing and kayak down a speedy river
    65. perform at a poetry cafe
    66. go to ACF theaters occasionally
    67. go on a book shopping spree
    68. do something origonal with a person who cares alot about it which is something ive never thought of doing (like going to a country ive never thought of, or a search)
    69. be on Oprah for a great achivement
    70. ride/pilot a helicoptor
    71. go back to this shop in London that i really liked (an antigue, origonal cultural shop)
    72. take a tour of an origonal castle (like in Ireland or Germany)
    73. help paint a mural, or paint one on my own
    74. make a beautiful sculpture (like the one from 'The Devils Advocate')
    75. do a photoshot and/or do makeup for a model magazine
    76. make earrings and make glass
    77. interview a holocaust survivor
    78. ride an elephant
    79. write lyrics for musicans
    80. work backstage for a musican or artist
    81. learn more spanish
    82. learn japanese, italian, french and chinese
    83. do music video direction
    84. read the books to the movies i love (e.g, the color purple, lotr, white oleander)
    85. work with steven spilburg (on anything he'd want me for, ha)
    86. work with tim burton (on anything he'd want me for, too)
    87. create a superhero that will make it to the big screen and be well known
    88. work with the NAACP
    89. have my poetry published in a famous magazine
    90. live by the sea, and collect seashells
    91. find my biological family and visit them in the country theyre from (if they still live there)
    92. be a guest star on a sitcom
    93. meet larry david, and get to chill on his show
    94. learn a martial art where i can learn to use a sword (im thinking wushu, a really nice art)
    95. sell something at an art auction
    96. learn to ride, then own, a motorcycle
    97. play with my great-grandchildren
    98. learn to get over my negative traits, which are worse b/c they arent visible
    99. speak at least one language fluently
    100. be part of a techology revolution (e.g, a new computer, car)
    101. sing karoke and drink sake (haha)
    102. create a story/charactor for a video game
    103. expand my album collection
    104. eat a dish on the emeril show and/or the iron chef
    105. ride a dirt bike
    106. learn to skateboards
    107. learn how to use a gun
    108. sleep under the stars
    109. be part of a jury
    110. impact a childs life
    111. visit teh vietnam memorial
    112. make a pair of jeans from sratch
    113. be able to sew
    114. see the entire season of sandford and son, and all in the family
    115. have and keep in touch with a pen pal (where did hiroko go?)
    116. keep in touch with all my senior friends who are graduating this year
    117. help spread awareness about starving in Africa and China, the enviroment, endangered animals, animal abuse, and the positives of vegan diets
     
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