Life's To-Do List (in no specific order)
Life’s To-Do List
(in no specific order)
Drive a motorcycle
Learn to fence
Do a perfect cartwheel
See the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis
Skydive
Build a house for someone who needs one
Fall in love
Champion a worthy cause
Learn Yiddish
Learn to write with my left hand
See a live TV show taping
Be on a jury
Ride a roller coaster in every state
Spend a day reading a novel by the creek
Learn to juggle and put on a show
Grow a tree-give it a name and make it my best friend
Go jet-skiing
Ride a hot-air balloon
Go crowd surfing at a rock concert
Know all the lyrics at a concert and sing along
Visit Israel
Travel around the world in 80 days and have every meal in a different country
Perform on a street corner
Whistle through a piece of grass
Know how my car works
Learn how to convert measurements of all types
Make a bull’s-eye with a bow and arrow
Learn basic sign language
Mix my own song
Make a piece of stained glass art
Give something I love away to someone who will love it more
Pass on an object and a story to each of my family members
Whittle a chess set
Learn how to play chess
Translate a poem from another language
Drink a cup of coffee from every country
Solve a Rubik’s cube
See every Hitchcock film
Make a good paper airplane
Get an amazing massage
Bowl an entire game facing backwards
Learn shorthand
Learn to roll my “rrrr”s
Play one piece perfectly on the piano
Do something crazy with my appearance and when people mention it act surprised
Live a month without television, computers, or electronics
Be absolutely debt-free
Introduce myself to a perfect stranger who intimidates me
Send a postcard home in language of the country it came from
Learn to fake a foreign accent so well that people are confused
Be honest with my children
Jump off a cliff into the ocean
Find someone else with my name and become friends
Ride a zip-line in the rainforest
Live or study abroad
Join a protest rally, sit in, or the like
Have (and keep) a pen pal that I have never met in person
Write a letter too personal to send, and send it
See every Shakespeare play in production
Make a scrapbook
Befriend an animal
See a movie where I (and my party) are the only ones there and change seats as often as we like
Learn to dive
Go out on a normal day in a prom gown and don’t justify
Hold a séance with all the trappings
Go on a vacation without an itinerary
Learn to kayak and spend a day doing only that
Have tea in England
Collect something
Wear contacts that distort my eyes and say that they’re natural
Get someone else to be as passionate about something as I am
Get a makeover by someone I trust
Fly somewhere First Class at someone else’s expense
Try every flavor of ice cream
Get in a fight-and win
Do everything in the “Pina Colata” song
Spend a New Year’s Eve in Times Square
Visit the Aztec pyramids
Play golf decently
Donate a kidney to a stranger
Stay in a hotel penthouse/presidential suite
Get a meaningful tattoo that no one will ever know about
Sail through the Bermuda Triangle
Learn to meditate
Pay forward every good deed that has been done for me
Have a song written with my name in it
Have a plant without killing it
Come up with a life motto/philosophy
Build/fix something, be incredibly dirty, and still be beautiful
Have a huge library, dark wood bookcases and all
Learn to skip stones
Make a quilt with fabrics that have sentimental value to me
See an opera
Appear as a guest on a radio show
Have a pond with animals in my yard
Be able to tell stories from Greek mythology (in full) from memory
Go to a foreign country and eat an indigenous fruit for the first time
See a Tchaikovsky ballet in person
Hang glide off a cliff
Switch lives with someone for a day
Stay up all night debating philosophy
Know every what every reference in “La Vie Boheme” means
See a live performance of “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Stand at the middle of the world (La Mitad del Mundo, Quito)
Ride in a cable car and jump up and down
Go dune bashing in a 4x4
Ride in a luge
Go sledging in New Zealand
Have a wild animal eat out of my hand
Try a frightening foreign delicacy
Be able to name all the states/mammals in under 60 seconds
Recite the alphabet backward without stopping
Go to a clam bake
Find a pearl in an oyster
Find my spirit guide
Ride a double-bicycle
Learn how to make a daisy chain
Ride a Zorb in New Zealand
Have a dog that follows me everywhere and stays with me without a leash
Release a dove
Ride a windmill in the Netherlands
Visit Teotihuacan
Have a race on a waverunner (and not fall off)
Eat something that could kill me
Find something interesting with a metal detector
Slide down a dune head-first
Visit a wishing tree, make a wish, and never tell it to anyone
Sing a song solo from center stage
Be an expert in the history of an object we take for granted
Go caroling at strangers’ houses
Learn to throw the perfect frisbee
Give someone a gift for no reason
Wear a slutty outfit and look amazing in it
Send someone a letter with a hidden message
Be able to recite the Bill of Rights
Collect tears in a jar and pour them into the ocean
Go to tea at the Rittenhouse again all dressed up
Climb a rope
Do a trust fall
Slide down a fireman’s pole
Cross the monkey bars
Throw a coin off the Hoover dam at the state line
Jump a train
Claim a star
Stop being afraid of spiders
Give my car a crazy paint job
Drive a car over 100 mph
Wear face paint at a sporting event
Travel a good distance to completely surprise someone
Get completely plastered at some point in life
Celebrate someone else’s holiday
Ride a roller coaster hands-up the entire time
Memorize a poem
Go on the Grand Canyon bridge
Go on a road trip
Do a Chinese firedrill
Pull a fire alarm when there is no fire
Do karaoke in front of strangers
Memorize and be able to dramatically tell a Grimm’s Fairy Tale
Leave a letter to a stranger in a book
Celebrate the anniversary of a random event
Be part of an independent/student film
Go a full day without a complaint
See a wild elephant family in Africa walking trunk to tail
Visit Phuket
Cross a body of water on an unsteady bridge/log