10 Things To Do Before You're Gone

[Jack Scorpion]

1. Get thrown through a large glass window.
2. Have a job that requires I wear a suit every day.
3. Spend time in Central America.
4. Make my 15 minutes of fame damn well worth it.
5. Live for at least one year in New York.
6. Own an American car made in the 70s.
7. Have fiction published somewhere half respectable.
8. Make Hawaiian shirts hip (again?).
9. Read the entire collected writings of John Dos Passos.
10. Ride in a boat far enough asea to lose sight of land for at least a day.

 

[CanadaDoll]

Ten things for me.....I don't think I have ten so I'll just list what I have.
1) Kiss the Blarney stone, okay maybe just blow it a kiss, germs and all, I'll decide when I'm there.
2) Try my hand at a vineyard.
3) Build a collection of first edition Bram Stoker novels, and own the original Tale of Genji.
4) Climb Mount Fuji to see the sun rise. (which I hear is spectacular)
5) Taste Fugu, also known as Blowfish.
6) Go Shark diving.

Okay, that's all I have so far

 

[Lady Day]

Learn how to not be afraid to sing in front of others.

Oooh, thats my #11

LD

 

[Diamondback]

No particular order:

-"Rock and roll" on a Chicago piano (in my case, again)
-Eat a whole cheesesteak in Philly (last time, I only made it 25% through--and nothing else competes with a real Philly cheesesteak)
-Fly supersonic. "You're not going to be happy unless you're going Mach two with your hair on fire..."--Charlie (Kelly McGillis), Top Gun
-Next round in college, if there's some major formal dance, attend it, preferably with a companion. (I actually worked through my senior prom--AT my senior prom, with Security.)
-High-altitude parachute jump.
-Long-range cruise aboard a yacht.
-Participate in a long-distance road race. Don't think Dakar's Trans Am-friendly, but you never know...
-Take on a protege. Even if y acquire all the knowledge in the world, it does no good at all unless you have someone to pass it on to...

Last but certainly not least:
-Someday, preferably when I have the $$$ to afford doing it right, actually "have a childhood." (Most of mine was lost in a "catastrophic systems failure", so I figure life--but not any individual--owes me, and I owe myself, a replacement.

My private list is a good bit longer than most of yours, both because of my age and the fact that I'm actually rather underdeveloped as a "person"--my entire development was focused on creating a brute-force data-processing machine, a "living mainframe" if you will, and thus I've missed out on a lot of the little experiences that help form a life that y'all take for granted.

 

[Novella]

*(like someone else mentioned) see the Northern Lights
* go to Egypt and see all the ancient stuff
* road trip across the US
* actually finish a fiction story
* live in a house more than 60 years old
* cruise through the fjords of Norway
* visit all the places my ancestors lived before coming to the US
* get a job that involves working with old films
* write a research book and get it published
* be a part of a dance performance again

 

[drafttek]

1. Fly cross-country in an open cockpit biplane.
2. Run my Jeep in the Great American Race
3. Go hang gliding again.
4. Drive in a demolition derby
5. Teach my son to fly (the bigger he gets the harder he is to throw )
6. Camp on a remote lake via floatplane
7. Buy a Ducati
8. Figure out my wife
9. Own my own business (working on it now)
10. Look before I leap

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

1. Find the cure for Crohn's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

2. Have a candlelit dinner on the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice, again.
3. Have a children's story published.
4. Live on a tropical island.
5. Fit into a size 2 again
6. Own another Dalmatian.
7. Fall madly, deeply, passionately in love.
8. Have a child, hopefully more than one.
9. Be able to support my Mom and Dad the way they have supported me over the years.
10. Take a few years and really travel the world. I want to see every nook and cranny, and doing it first class would be nice too

11. Find the cure for Crohn's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

 

[SinatraStyle]

It is great, and inspiring, to see everyone's ambitions. I don't have a Top 10 list off the top of my head, but appreciate everyone listing their aspirations. I'll give it some thought and see what happens.

 

[Nathan Flowers]

1. Get thrown through a large glass window.

There's a word for that.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/defenestration

 

[Fletch]

1. Learn the violin and guitar.
2. Learn to repair woodwinds, tube radios and hats.
3. Learn French, German and Italian well enough to speak them.
4. Learn to maintain a flathead Ford V-8.
5. Learn to cook a decent repertory of dishes.
6. Learn to alter my own clothing.
7. Learn to cross-country ski.
8. Visit France, Germany and Italy.
9. Buy and restore a house.
10. Find a life's work that speaks to my loves and skills, and a partner who'll share all the joys and troubles (and isn't shy of bright red lipstick and seamed stockings).

 

[Jack Scorpion]

There's a word for that.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/defenestration

And oddly enough, it just happens to be my new favorite word.

 

[CharlieH.]

Wow! I didn't expect this many replies. Keep 'em coming!
(SinatraStyle's right... there is quite a bit of inspiration here!)

 

[Bill O'Rights]

5. Have another pastrami sandwich at the Carnegie Deli. The first one was ten years ago, and I can still taste it.

Whilst I ponder my own list, might I suggest that you see a doctor for that? Though, why you'd want another is beyond me. I mean, if the pastrami was that bad on the first one...

10. Finally figure out exactly what I want to do with my life. It's gettin' late.

Lizzie...from what I've seen...you are doing just fine. :eusa_clap

 

[rockyj]

The Northern Lights

*(like someone else mentioned) see the Northern Lights
* go to Egypt and see all the ancient stuff
* road trip across the US
* actually finish a fiction story
* live in a house more than 60 years old
* cruise through the fjords of Norway
* visit all the places my ancestors lived before coming to the US
* get a job that involves working with old films
* write a research book and get it published
* be a part of a dance performance again

Yes! They are worth seeing

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

1. Go around the world (dressed all 30's the whole time).
2.
A.If still alive: meet Leslie Howard's daughter(Next best thing to meeting Leslie Howard).
B.Meet Lauren Bacall
C.Meet Mickey Rooney
3. Meet a WWI veteran (before they are all dead).
4. Get really good on my fiddle, developing styles ranging from 1850's to 1930’s (Skillet Lickers)
5. Build an authentic WWI airplane from scratch.
6. Write a few books.
7. (Can't tell you, it's a confidential).

 

[Mojito]

1. Travel to Antarctica and visit Scott's hut

2. Finally organise the dive trip to Christmas and Cocos Islands

3. Dive with Great Whites (I've dived with most of the other sharks near the top of my list like Hammerheads, but never a GW)

4. Find Sandy Irvine's body on Mount Everest. Hopefully with camera(s) intact. Like Harp, I'd also like to summit the Matterhorn. Not that I have any real interest in mountaineering, but the Matterhorn really captures the imagination.

5. See Keas playing on a New Zealand glacier, and hear a Kakapo booming in the wild.

6. Conquer my patella and hyper-flexation problem and run a marathon.

7. Own an Art Deco flat with original features.

8. See an excellent Rossetti exhibition

9. Visit Amarna (Akhetaten) in Egypt

10. Retire to England or Ireland with lengthy yearly visits to Australia and diving locations around the world.