I met this girl - a friend of a friend - and she had a list of 100 things to do in life. I fell in love with the idea, and she had an awesome group of tasks.
I tried to tweak her’s a little and kind of adopt the same wants and aspirations that she had (I pretty much wanted her list).
I soon realised that this doesn’t work, and there’s not nearly as much satisfaction in crossing something off someone else’s list, as there is in doing it to your own.
Here’s my list of things that I will do/achieve in life.
It’s constantly being added to and getting longer and longer, so I’m not sure if I’ll ever post a final copy. :)
I’m protective of some parts, embarrassed of others.. so be nice.
1. Own a house home.
2. Write a book.
3. Make others believe.
4. Help someone.
5. Design a house - have it built.
6. Compose a beautiful song.
7. Make someone cry because of my song.
8. Visit/Live in/near Seattle.
9. Go on a roadtrip.
10. Climb a mountain.
11. Make a wish.
12. Have a wish come true.
13. Discover something great.
14. Own a whole-wall bookcase.
15. Learn to ride a motorbike.
16. Get a motorbike.
17. Get a tattoo.
18. Be totally lost.
19. Find beauty somewhere strange/obscure.
20. Be surprised.
21. Own a very expensive, beautiful car.
22. See someone’s eyes light up.
23. Get my gliders.
24. Work in an orphanage.
25. See the Northern Lights.
26. Make my own jewellery.
27. Read by moonlight.
28. Read/Know great poems by even greater poets.
29. Own a collection of classic novels. - 18th birthday from Nat and Joel.
30. Find a place (and go) where I can hear only the harmonious vibrations of my own blood in my ears; not another sound.
31. Feel strong.
32. Be able to quote great literature.
33. Stand up for myself when it really matters.
34. Plant a tree and watch it grow.
35. Learn to sword fight/fence.
36. Be fearless.
37. Take classes in meditation.
38. Feng Shui a room.
39. Master Clair de Lune.
40. Have an epiphany.
- See here.
41. Be someone’s definition of perfect.
42. Know what I want. - 11th of June, 2010: Katie Noonan and The Captains.
43. Be somebody.
44. Start/Join a bookclub.
45. Don’t be such a pushover.
46. Be an Emile - at least for a day.
47. Use ‘flux’ in a sentence.
48. Read Moby Dick.
49. Drink Midnight Margaritas at midnight.
50. Have a story to tell.
51. Be a part of history. - First foreigners to be allowed to enter and pray in the 3,000 year old Shinto temple in Ichinomiya, Japan.
52. Be a ‘free hugs’ person - sign and all!
53. Receive a hug from a ‘free hugs’ person - sign and all!
54. Buy a bike.
55. Lose control, AKA: ‘Let my freak fly.’
56. Be brave.
57. Win a competition.
58. Do regular vlogs.
59. Be proud of a piece of my writing.
- See here.
60. Have a golf buggy race.
61. Meet Ellen!
62. Build a snowman.
63. Learn to fish/Go fishing.
64. Visit Moscow.
65. Break a bone.
66. Have a blog.
67. Live in LA.
68. Disregard pressure.
69. Go to the snow.
70. Draw/Paint/Something a picture I actually want to keep.
71. Give up trying to decipher my emotions and just live in the moment.
72. Sing with an idol/someone ‘famous’.
73. Graduate from high school. PASS. - 84.25 :)
74. Camp in a queue.75. Write messages on notes of money. - See here.
76. Read Dante’s Divine Comedy.
77. Leave notes in library books. - See here.
78. Put my left shoe on first and be okay with that!
79. Have a bay window with a seat.
80. Be totally comfortable.
81. Paint.
82. Study astrophysics and space science (later in life).
83. Publish or just Have a collection of the LBBs.
84. Give my child a teddybear, and never let them leave without it.
85. Go berry picking.
86. Stop being insecure.
87. Have a foodfight.
88. Read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
89. Conquer fear of falling.
90. Visit a cemetary.
- See here.
91. Have people sing at my funeral.
92. Be a blood donor.
93. Be an organ donor.94. Donate my body to science.
- Removing this from the list, as I cannot be both donated and a donor.
95. Be cremated.
96. Steal a garden gnome. Return it with pictures of its adventure.
97. Go skinny dipping.
98. Fly over the polar ice-cap.
99. Explore the pyramids with Dad.
100. Feel absolutely alone.
101. Get punched in the face.
102. Get caught by sprinklers.
103. Have a picnic on a roof.
104. Read Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf.
105. Sail away.
106. Skip a stone.
107. Fingerpaint.
108. Be known at a coffee store.109. Get on a train without knowing where it’s headed and don’t get off until it stops.
110. Do a strip tease.
111. Smoke a cigarette.
112. Get high.
113. Share a naked shower.
114. Take a polaroid picture and shake it out.
115. Be woken up at night just to be taken out into a thunderstorm.
116. Dress ridiculously and go about a normal day.
117. Feel myself falling apart.
118. Pick myself up (with or without help) and get better.
119. Have a “girls’ night” with face-masks.
120. Own the Full House and Dawson’s Creek boxsets. - See here and here.
121. Attend a rooftop party.
122. Drink hard liquor when I’m in a mood.
123. Run through a field.
124. Sleep in a hammock.
125. Jump off of a bridge.
126. Shoot a gun.
127. Learn to throw knives.
128. Have a staring contest with a stranger.
129. Surpise someone.
130. Remain a mystery.. to at least one person.
131. Feel as though I’m flying.
132. Plant a garden - get my hands dirty!
133. Make someone’s day.
134. Drink eggnog at Christmas time.
135. Share a tearful kiss.
136. Bungy jump in New Zealand.
137. Visit Oxford University.
138. Run away.
139. Cross a border on foot.
- Renmark, 2010. See here.
140. Get a blood nose.
141. Experience a white Christmas.
142. Stay awake for at least 48 hours.
143. Get arrested.
144. Smoke from a pipe.
145. Blow a smoke-ring.
146. Do tequila shots!
147. Make a secret-keeper book.
148. Be hospitalised.
149. Have a scar with a story.
150. Help an “old lady” cross the street.
151. Be a busker, at least once.
152. Steal.153. Be a nude model.
154. Be painted on.
155. Get a Henna tattoo. - See here.
156. Own Chanel earrings.
157. Send someone a letter via post.
158. Cross a rickety bridge.
159. Vandalise a stop sign.
160. Take a ride in a hot air balloon.
161. Eat laced brownies.
162. Have my fortune told.
163. Learn to read the tarot.
164. Hail a taxi in New York.
165. Go swimming for the joy of the water; submerge myself.
166. Be in a band.
167. Wake with the sun.
168. Carve a jack-o-lantern.
169. See a live Broadway musical.
170. Have a tea party. :)
171. Attend the ballet.
172. Read the bible (and possibly a few other religious works).
173. Love unconditionally.
174. Celebrate Hallowe’en in Salem.
175. Take a stroll through a labyrinth in Italy.
176. Go to the world’s largest salt flat in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia during the rainy season (can only be reached via hot air balloon - see 160).
177. Catch a train to Melbourne.
178. Dance on a table-top or bar.
179. Go cage diving with the sharks!
180. Take a risk!
181. Feel pride.
- See here.
182. Attend a convention.
183. Grow a bonsai fruit orchard.
Kerri, x
