Everyone should complete some worthwhile things. Here’s my list of things I’d like to accomplish in my lifetime. Bolded items have been completed.
1. Make a snow angel
2. Hike in the woods overnight
3. Skydive
4. Visit the Louvre
5. Walk on stilts
6. See the Pyramids
7. Recite poetry in front of an audience
8. Watch a Hawaiian sunrise
9. Make love on a beach
10. Skinny dip
11. Bike ride for 30 miles
12. Karaoke
13. Sing all verses and choruses of “American Pie”
14. See Stonehenge
15. Create something that lasts forever
16. Love someone unconditionally
17. Have friends you care about
18. Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge, playing “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” driving the speed limit, and watch the song end at the end of the bridge
19. See Rocky Horror Picture Show in the Theatre
20. Write a love letter
21. Fight for a cause
22. Line dance at a hole-in-the-wall country bar
23. Kiss the Blarney Stone
24. Visit Japan
25. Understand Buddhism
26. Adopt a kitty from a shelter
27. Write a song
28. Buy flowers for yourself
29. Line up The Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”
30. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
31. Hit someone in the face with a pie
32. Have a child
33. Let go of something you really love
34. Donate to charity
35. Help someone who doesn’t even know they need it
36. Become an avid Goodwill shopper
37. Ditch work and act like a kid all day
38. Go for a master’s in some combination of communication and journalism
39. Have an outside wedding in May with lots of sterling roses, lace carpet and simple dress
40. Become a cool Grandma
41. Live downtown
42. Knit everyone I love something special
43. Revisit both my Grandmothers’ graves
44. Buy a house
45. Tour Europe (Paris and Italy, a must)
46. Swim with dolphins
47. Slept under the stars
48. Get drunk with friends while gossiping all night
49. Have a food fight
50. Call in sick when you’re not
51. Given your number to a complete stranger
52. Scream, kick, yell, cry—all over something incredibly stupid
53. Live a fantasy
54. See an eclipse
55. Adopt an accent for the day
56. Visit your ancestors graves
57. Visit all 50 states
58. Participate in a 10K
59. Dance with a stranger in a foreign country
60. Watch whales in the wild
61. Stolen a sign or a construction cone
62. Take a road trip with no chosen destination
63. Go rock climbing
64. In a restaurant, sit at a stranger’s table and eat a meal with them
65. Lounge around in bed all day
66. Kiss in the rain
67. Gone to a drive-in theatre
68. Quit your job with no notice because you should
69. Discovere that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog
70. Have a profitable craft business
71. Watch the Star Wars trilogy all in one afternoon
72. Crash a party
73. Bake cookies
74. Get a tattoo of my name in Japanese
75. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
76. Record your own music
77. Played in the rain
78. Win a limbo contest (or come second)
79. Fluently speak another language
80. Overdraw your account
81. Revisit childhood memories
82. Call, write or email your Congress person
83. Sing loudly in the car with the windows down without carring
84. Reaquaint with a lost, close childhood friend
85. Mend a broken heart
86. Drive any land vehicle at a speed greater than 100mph
87. Ride a horse
88. Canoe down a river
89. Build a set with your hands and hammer
90. Eat sushi
91. Spend more quality time with family
92. Have a healthy, robust debate over something you feel passionate about
93. Read the unabridged version of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables
94. Dye my hair
95. Create my own board game
96. See a movie that made my soul hurt and choose to watch it again
97. Sing a solo in public, while sober
98. Listen to criticism with an open mind and let it improve me
99. Put your own dialogue to a tv show in another language
100. Be a rock star
101. Dance around the house in my underwear like Top Gun, and dance and sing
102. Admit when I’m scared
103. Make my own clothes
104. Learn to swing dance, and love it!
105. Get out of relationship that’s making me miserable
106. Lay in a field of clover
107. Lead a healthy lifestyle of good diet and plenty of exercise
108. Love myself with complete honesty, truth and respect
109. Shave my head
110. Work on a farm for a day
111. Put a message in a bottle and throw it into the sea
112. Go scuba diving
113. Go on a safari
114. Get married
115. Open a boutique
116. Have my own fashion line
117. Design housewares
118. Become a mock interior designer
119. Have a family
120. Pull a Ginger Rogers in a convertible
121. Play in a band
122. Perform my own music
123. Learn
124. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
125. Write a book
126. Knit a scarf
127. Explore a cave
128. Learn sign language
129. Learn to drive stick shift
130. Run a marathon
131. Read a lifetime of books
132. Visit a Native American reservation
133. Participate in a Pow-Wow
134. Ride an elephant
135. Help build a house
136. Visit a rainforest in Africa
137. Take a vacation alone
138. Plant a veggie garden
139. Learn a magic trick
140. Throw a dinner party
141. Own a kimono/yukata
142. See a geisha performance
143. Catch a fish
144. Sing at a piano bar
145. Give a speech
146. Hit a bull’s eye
147. See a buffalo
148. Visit the Seven Wonders of the World
149. Climb a tree
150. Vote
151. Play the lottery
152. Throw a surprise party
153. Go on an archeological dig
154. Go white water rafting
155. Adopt a child
156. Go ballroom dancing
157. Own a papillion
158. Meet Doloros O’Riordan
159. Meet the Dalai Llama
160. Visit Tibet

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