Before you die
I just got to thinking about all the things that I want to do. So, is there anything that you have to do or experience before you die?
For me, I want to skate on a frozen pond. :thumbsup: It looks so cool in the movies and, being from Texas, I don't get to see many frozen ponds or have a chance to go ice skating. What about you? |
I'd like to see the Serengeti in Africa. It would be amazing to see the earth as it was so long ago, with all the animals making their migration for survival. Thinking about it blows my mind. A friend of mine just went there for school and someone from the Masai tribe gave her a gift to bring me. I can't wait to see what it is. I'll make it there someday.
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Skydiving is definitely high on the list for me.
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I'm drawing a blank. The only things I can think of off the top of my head are:
1) Experience a total eclipse of the sun. 2) Experience a 24 hour day and night (above the Arctic circle or below the Antarctic circle during the appropriate times of the year). 3) Visit Antarctica (which could kill part of #2 above) VitaminH: I did the skydiving thing a couple of years ago (it WAS on my list, too). I strongly recommend a tandem jump for your first time. It's cheaper, faster, and no worries on your part: you get to enjoy the entire process and someone else worries about keeping you (both) alive. |
Visit Ireland, and try to manage proficiency in Gaelic by spending some time in Co. Kerry.
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Set foot in all seven seas.
Stare into the depths of an active volcano. Examine art kept at the Vatican and the Louvre. Watch a major league baseball game in every stadium in America. Ride out a tornado. Stare at the blue marble from space. The list is endless, really! |
I have to agree with the pond skating (Im a sucker for the movie Ice Castles and I've always wanted to do that)
I'd also visit every square inch of scotland....thats my lifes dream |
Y'all can come over my house this winter-- 200 feet from an outdoor pond -- ideal for skating, I'll even make you real hot cocoa wiht marshmallows and peppermint sticks (or cinammin red hots) ( I have a big basket of scarves and mittens too, you can keep warm)
i want to shower under a waterfall... |
you'd better be careful....I'll take you up on that mal hehehehe oh and I'll want red hots not peppermint
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AS an anthropologist who had to find work in the corporate american world, I would like to live a little piece of my free life a bit before I die 1) Wander the streets of the 1000 year old city of Prague, visit the library of Prague University, which was established in 500AC. 2) live like a playboy in either Budapest and Prague, find out exactly how good my hungarian is. 3) backpack through Europe with an unlimited budget 4) drive a Corvette, 5) buy an over-sized ring for the woman I love... |
I want to see my kids grow up and have children of their own. Holding my grandchildren would be the best.
Circumnavigating the world on a sailboat is something I've always dreamed about. done the pond skating (what can I say, I live in Canada) done the waterfall shower (fun, but a bit cold) done the 24 hours of sunlight (it really messes up your mind) there is a volcano right out my window (not active, but it does steam on cold winter days) visited the Vatican and the Louvre when I was 21 been to Ireland (very nice place I might add) never ridden out a tornado, but I have done a couple of hurricanes I never realized these activities would be something others would long to do, but after reading the above posts it's nice to see people with the same desires as I have. |
I would like to see every continent, and have time and money to explore them...
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I would like to be a bestselling author, have my doctorate in French, see my kids grow up to be healthy, happy, well adjusted and have families of their own, fulfill all my sexual fantasies, and have enough money to leave my children the money they need for life.
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I'm not going to die. Just because no one has ever done it before doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I want to have enough money to have a house built for someone my size. 8-foot doorways, 12-foot ceilings, 7-foot-long bathtubs, and one of those super-king-size beds that basketball players advertise for in "Tall" magazine. Since high school, I have never slept on a bed without my feet hanging over the edge.
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I will see Mt. Everest with my own eyes. I dont have to climb it, just see it with my own naked eyes.
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Mostly things that I feel I need to have done before I die would be.
Hunt and score a legit kill on: Moose, pronghorn, Grizzly or Blackbear, Polar Bear, Large Elk and a Russian Boar. I also want to learn to play guitar extremely well. |
Well, if I knew when I was going to die. I'd probably want to do a HALO jump (High Altitude Low Opening), which various militaries do.
The origins of the HALO technique could be traced back to SEAL Team SIX of the United States Navy. The team pioneered the use of military free-fall exercises when the U.S. military needed to deliver soldiers to boats and other large operational gears for military personnel delivering or target neutralization. SEAL Team SIX perfected the HALO method by jumping from altitudes upward of 36,000 feet with oxygen masks. |
Go into space, thats all I really wanna do.
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Visit Africa and see Bonobos and Gorillas with my own eyes (as well as the other rapidly disappearing wildlife).
Have children and grandchildren. Have sex with Scarlett Johansson, Cameron Diaz, Rachael Weisz and Angela Jolie at the same time Mr Mephisto Mr Mephisto |
I want to break Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain's record.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain I'm just not sure which record whocarz is referring to... |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain
But I'm wondering which record he is talking about: In his autobiography, Chamberlain claimed to have had sex with almost 20,000 women--this would have averaged 1.2 women per day, from age 15 until his death. Many people doubted his specific number, though few questioned the fact of wild sexual behavior. or The 7-foot 2-inch (2.18 m) Chamberlain, known as Wilt the Stilt or "The Big Dipper", holds nearly 100 NBA records, including the record for most points in a game -- 100, which he scored on March 2, 1962, against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pennsylvania. |
Ummm....do a European trek, and on the way back float by Seattle to shag the ass off a very special man.
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I bet he's talking about Wilt's legendary 20k.
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Here's a hint: I can't play basketball worth a damn.
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hell im cheap, give me arlington cemetary, the black wall, pissing on the hollywood sign, pissing on four corners... usa land mark. slapin a few hundred peps and when i know i got 4 seconds to live... ram the fuckers that pass me then hit the blinker to turn right. yeah life would be good. oh put on dark sunglasses and pretend im blind and walk around the mall grabbing femals arse and saying "bob?"
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Not really. I'm ready to check out.
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You need to go to the Hotel Monaco in Chicago... They have Tall Rooms - I'm not quite short (5'9") I was a midget in the room, I could barely reach the shower head to adjust it... Really quite cool concept...
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I'd swim the barrier reef in Australia
Go swimming with Great Whites (hey I'm gonna die anyway right?) Spin Records with Dieselboy and DJ Dan in front of a million people Visit Rome,Prague, and Ibiza Pretty simple wish list EDIT:: have sex with Jennifer Connelly :thumbsup: |
become self actualized again.
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Spend a number of years living in a vibrant non-english speaking international city, becoming truly comfortable and proficient in that language and culture. Where? Good question. At this stage Paris and Tokyo are at the top of the list.
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I too would like to:
- experience a white night (24 hours light) and a 24 hour dark day... although I think the last one will be a little difficult with the extreme cold it being winter time in Antarctica or the Arctic. - See icebergs and walk on a huge glacier (guess that'd tie in with the previous point) - Visit Australia and New Zealand. Guess I might've forgotten some, but these are the ones that come to mind, having read other people's lists. |
I really want to go to every continent at least once :) World traveler!
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To be completely content and learn to rollerblade....
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Travel to New Zealand.
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I agree with Splck -- holding (knowing) my grandchildren. My own kids are such a trip for me -- their kids will blow my mind.
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Have a family (husband and pets)
Travel to a bunch of places Pose naked on the TFP Show my tattoos to my mom and have her live to see the next day Own a new car. (For those of you who do, you have no idea how much you take that one for granted.) Own a home. Paint my room a funky color and have people walk in and say "That is fucking cool" Have the respect of people whose ass I would currently like to beat Loose this horrible thing I am afflicted with called JEALOUSY |
Before I die, or them, I'd like to have a day long jam session with members of Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Who, Van Halen, and to many more to count. Of course in Central Park or a field like Knebworth in England. That's all.
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I would like to spend one day completely free of illness or pain, to know the feeling of being perfectly healthy.
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-Travel the world (prefer to see Switzerland, Norway, Australia, China, Japan)
-Visit a Buddhist Temple (there's actually one nearby) -Swim with an Orca or Dolphin -Actually grow my hair long again (and hold myself to it) -sing in coffee shops -Be debt-free -travel cross-country in an RV & Goldwing for our retirement -hold a koala -see my old school friends -surf.....again.....but in REAL waters, not the North Pacific -Adopt a baby from China |
Wow, you all seem to have such specific things you wish to accomplish before your deaths. I have nothing in particular I want to do before I pass... I guess I'd just like to see my future children grow up and be happy.
I want to die a happy, old, senile lady with my happy, old, senile husband by my side. Unless I outlive him... in which case, I will look forward to seeing him again in heaven:D Am I boring or what?;) |
Live in Japan, Italy, Brazil and pick up the languages while there.
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sakte on a frozen pond and maybe play some pond hockey, skydive, drive a really really fast car, fly a plane, for me the list is next to endless. There is so much stuff to do in one lifetime.
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*Nikki* - Pose naked on the TFP
...........and whats stopping you? =) do something that i will regret for the rest of my life but love the fact that i did it. |
Before I die I want to have the courage to pull the trigger. :P
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Before I die, I want to live.
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Fire a mini-gun
Drive a rally car! Subaru WRX Impreza would do just nicely. Lots of mud. Get a #3 combo at Wendy's and "double the beef." Six patties, one sandwich, awesome. Convincing them to do it would be the hard part. Find a girl who loves me! Sappy sappy joy joy Travel somewhere besides here. Go somewhere that is sparcely populated! |
Procreate, and have a Guiness at the brewery. I'm efficient, I'm pretty sure I could do both at the same time
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1. climb all seven summits
2. live in japan 3. travel extensively through east, south east and central asia 4. have a threesome with one russian girl, and one japanese girl 5. have wild sex with a b-list celebrity 6. spit in john howards eye 7. piss on john howards still-smoking, charred corpse, and then say sorry, i forgot to piss on you while you were burning |
I'd like to make a meaningful, lasting contribution to mankind. As yet I have no idea how, or specifically what, but I'm looking for opportunities.
Note that I choose 'mankind' over 'my fellow man' because, for the most part, I really don't like my fellow man. Seemingly as a rule, rather than the exception, he is self-absorbed, thoughtless, avaricious and cruel. I like to think that 'Mankind' somehow escapes the vulgarity of the common man and achieves a more noble essence. |
Build a house.
I had decided about this long before I saw "Fight Club" (a member of project mayhem says the exact same thing) and before I saw "Life of a House". Lots of hand work and attention to detail. Find the location, design it myself, build it from the ground up, doing as much as possible without contractors. |
I want to see my children grow up, skydiving a close second
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Become truly enlightened....got a long way to go.
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Reach enlightenment.
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Save a strangers life
Sky dive travel the world, find a new place to call home |
I want to be living in Italy when I die, and I would like to go to every nation in Europe, in addition to Japan and Brazil.
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Own a house
Have my own family and have fun doing it:D |
i would like to have teh sex before i die.
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I want to see my grandchildren grow up.
This is just a sneaky ploy for immortality since I don't have any children and never will. |
oh, just remembered, a few years back i wanted to introduce the Olsen twins to heroin before i died... but it seems someone beat me to it.
so, i'll have to update... therefore, before i die i want to introduce Hilary Duff (or some other run of the mill tween pop star) to heroin. |
--ride a bow legged woman on a ferris wheel...
I guess I have done just about everything else.. |
From the words in Tim McGraws new song :
I went skydivn' I went Rocky Mountain climbin' I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named FuManchu and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter and I gave forgiveness I've been denying and he said someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying |
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Just stay away from Lindsay Lohan! |
I've been keeping a list of things I'd like to do since college (almost 25 years ago). The list started on a sheet of ordinary notebook paper, grew to several sheets, and now exists as a file on my computer. I've been able to cross a few things off, but the ratio of subtractions does not match the ratio of additions.
Right now, I'd like to start with getting myself in shape (physically, financially) and then travel to Italy for a long -maybe permanent- stay. Once there, I'll review my list again and decide where I want to go from there. |
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