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It's funny how several of your things to do are related to then having children after them. That would not cross my mind. I was thinking more what 10 wild or fun things I'd do before I decided to have kids. But I guess it wouldn't be sensible.
I have no kids yet and no prospect of any for a while yet, but here is what I'd like to do before I've had kids:
- have a stable income and a thriving, dynamic career
- have a lot of sex in random, exciting places
- travel to faraway places (of course! sure it's great with kids too, I have some friends my age who do this with their two baby girls, they go to India and places like that, hiking in the jungle! I have done some travelling already but more would be great.)
- buy my own house
- spend time with friends is also on my list
- learn to dance Salsa properly
- go to lots of rock concerts and music festivals
- save up some more money
- read lots of great books
- finish my masters
- live in a different country at least once
- learn to surf well
I suppose closer to the "main event" I might consider doing some child-geared things too. But not a moment before. I'm not ready to have kids yet really. I'm such a child, I just want to have fun heh.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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