The You Haven't Lived til you done this thread

[Gilda]

-Drive cross country with no destination in mind, just to see what happens.

-Change a $100 into 5's and give them all away to homeless people.

-Make love on top of a running washer and dryer.

-Live in a small town in a foreign country for a month.

-Do that one thing you're most afraid of doing.

[pinoychink790]

You haven't lived until you've tried eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with fishsticks in between the peanut butter and the jelly. It's pretty good

[FloydianOne]

Taken a test without studying at all, or attended class for that matter.

[pinoychink790]

Another thing, you haven't lived until you've seen that movie the matrix

[hunnychile]

You haven't lived till you have:
told the CEO to Fuck himself.
Painted a painting that people want to purchase, for whatever price I want.
Lived through a Huge earthquake, a flood, a major fire storm and several nearby tornados...
Had multiple orgasms!!
Tripped on acid and spoke with God. And saw that golden cord...

[flamingpeach]

for me, it was having a baby.

[Beefimator]

You haven't lived until you have:
Walked out the locker room in front of 100,000 screaming football fans to play the game you love
Quit your job and spent all the money you had on your own buisness
Walked away from something that meant everything to you, just because...
Pooped your pants in a drunken stuper

[jhkayakr]

Go to a naked beach

[iccky]

Eaten Italian food in Italy, Mexican food in Mexico, and Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, MI.

[muttonglutton]

Originally Posted by la petite moi

2.) Done DDR.

YES!!!

DDR is the pants.

Also, you haven't lived until you've:

fallen, freefall.
Been in love, reciprocated.
Eaten pasta cooked by my grandmother.

[bendsley]

You haven't lived until...

1) You've righted a wrong because it's morally the right thing to do.
2) You've met the love of your life, and then lost her
3) You've watched a great friend slowly die because of a brain tumor.
4) You've experienced hating someone in your immediate family that you think it's worth taking your own life.
5) You've met friends on TFP.

...more to come I'm sure....

[Hampshire]

i would like to live a full life and be generally satisfied with everything i have done, i dont know if thats possible, but its a good goal

[lukethebandgeek]

Sit at a sidewalk cafe in Paris with a glass of whiskey and a copy of "A Moveable Feast" by Hemingway.
Smoke pot in Amsterdam.
Live in another country for a month or more.
Have sex in a car.
Climb the Arc de Triomphe at twilght.
Walk all the way from the louvre along the lenght of the Champs Elysees to the Arc.
Drink Bavarian Wiessbier.
Loose yourself in jazz and alcohol at a club.
March in a marching band.
See the fountain in the park at Metz, France. You'll know what I"m talking about if you have seen it.

[absolut_paris]

Originally Posted by lukethebandgeek

Sit at a sidewalk cafe in Paris with a glass of whiskey and a copy of "A Moveable Feast" by Hemingway.
Climb the Arc de Triomphe at twilght.
Walk all the way from the louvre along the lenght of the Champs Elysees to the Arc.
See the fountain in the park at Metz, France. You'll know what I"m talking about if you have seen it.

Well i know how i'm spending my afternoon, then. Why not, i guess..

You havent lived untill you've done all of the things listed here. Think about it... I think i'm starting right now.

I mean its true you only have one life... (+ i'm curious about the hungry geese one.)

[Brewer]

Volunteer A LOT of time to a non-profit that is doing something worthwhile...
Plant a tree...
Raise children...
Experience childrens smiles...
Catch a large billfish... and release it...
Do something good for the environment...
Brew your own beer...
Enjoy your family...

[majik_6]

Definitely want to second 80% of what's been said, and add:

-found someone you're willing to give up everything for, even though they don't seem to want to change anything for you (a thorough heartbreaking is good for you)
-drive at least 14 hours one way by yourself
-find someone that you know you can spend the rest of your life with and who feels the same about you (sometimes you need that first one to prepare you for this one)

[Astrocloud]

Had sex with someone that you've had a crush on.

[TexanAvenger]

Originally Posted by Astrocloud

Had sex with someone that you've had a crush on.

I'd vote to change this to "ask out someone you've had a crush on." Not so much because I'm against the sex, but that seems more base than I'd like to think of this as... eh, I'm weird.

And a new one to add to the list:

You haven't lived until you've changed clothes, completely (no wimping out and keeping the underwear), in a parking lot with some older person (people) watching you because there's no where else to change... in the middle of a storm... in front of a busy place and street.

Man, that rocked. Really, I'd suggest you go try it sometime.

[kramus]

you realized your grandparents are regular folks
you realized your parents are regular folks
you realized your kids are regular folks
you realized your grandkids are regular folks
you realized you are regular folks

(no cheating with the bran muffins diet either!)

[splck]

You havent lived until you've had children.

gone sailing on the open ocean.
traveled out of your home country.
learned how to juggle.

[MSD]

-Run around outdoors naked in sub-zero temperatures
-Had at least one limb completely engulfed in flames with no harm other than singed hair
-Fired a gun
-Lit the fuse on homemade fireworks and run to get behind cover before they went off (not knowing exactly when that would happen)
-Lied to the police in an interrogation room and gotten away with it
-Been skydiving... naked
-Walked around in public while not wearing pants (don't try to get around this one by wearing a skirt, dress, overalls, etc. It doesn't count because you know what I mean)
-Stage dived
-Driven a car that costs more than your house
-Run from the police and gotten away
-Pulled two all-nighters in a row without any drugs other than caffeine
-Stayed awake long enough that you started to hallucinate
-Done anything that required you to stop afterwards and reflect for a short time on the fact that you just as easily could have died as survived by doing what you just did
-Stood up and spoken in favor of something that you believe in, even though everyone in the audience was opposed to it

There are three things on that list that I haven't done yet, but intend to do whenever the opportunity arises.

[Painted]

-Spent three days fasting, then smoked so much pot you couldnt feel your face, then gone to an all you can eat buffet. I call it the Ultimate Munchies.
-Broken a bone
-Tried to elude the police by the means of a high speed car chase

[mirevolver]

-Gotten lost on the streets of a city in a foreign country at 2:00am.
-Put on some skis and flown down the side of a mountain at speeds in excess of 60mph.
-Driven around in a Pontiac Sunfire in the middle of a hurricane
-Had a couple of beers (not enough to be drunk) and get pulled over for speeding... and then get off with a warning.
-Hear the following words from your doctor in regards to a mole on your body, "it could be cancerous."

(and one borrowed from an aquaintance)
-being pulled over and issued a ticket for driving naked in a convertable.

[cj2112]

-till you've watched those northern lights
-sat around a campfire and heard the coyotes call at night

-delivered your first child on your birthday
-been shot at
-hooked a southern oregon steelhead
-caught a shark
-been over 80 mph in a homemade 17 foot plywood boat on a river w/ less than a foot of water in it.

[vector_1979]

You haven't lived until... you have died!





... couldn't resist the gag!

[hawker rider]

until you have your own child give you a hug and tell you that she/he loves you and you instantly know and fell that that's straight from their heart and that you truly do have a purpose in this life

[lordkos]

For me go out to the desert and "spend some quality time with friends"

[RallyEX]

You haven't lived until:

1. You've felt a rush of adrenaline so great that you actually feel yourself coming down (I get mine from racing).
2. Traveled on your own personal pilgrimage, made the journey to the place where you've always had that deep inner desire to journey to.
3. Harvested the same earth that your ancestors did.
4. Found beauty within madness. You'll know when you do.

[Amnesia620]

Originally Posted by hunnychile

You haven't lived till you have:
told the CEO to Fuck himself.
Painted a painting that people want to purchase, for whatever price I want.
Lived through a Huge earthquake, a flood, a major fire storm and several nearby tornados...
Had multiple orgasms!!
Tripped on acid and spoke with God. And saw that golden cord...

Or...had multiple orgasms (talk about a sexual ocean) while tripping on Lysergic Acid Dyethylamide 25...er..."acid"... not that I would know anything about how that...uh...felt... In fact, I wouldn't know... and I wouldn't know that it was awesome either.

[Amnesia620]

Originally Posted by flamingpeach

for me, it was having a baby.

Nods

That was definitely one part of living for me...seeing the truly awesome beauty of creation...we have such an amazing ability...to create life...

[Amnesia620]

Originally Posted by cj2112

-sat around a campfire and heard the coyotes call at night

Having lived in Tombstone, Arizona, for 7 years, I've heard them literally ten feet outside of my bedroom window. And I lived in a rural area, not out in the boonies...

-delivered your first child on your birthday

I had my son, Ashton, the day after my birthday...I'm 20 years, 13 hours and 32 mins older than him.

-been shot at

Or been in any life threatening situation...

[Amnesia620]

Originally Posted by bendsley

You haven't lived until...

1) You've righted a wrong because it's morally the right thing to do.

You never know shame like you do, if you were the one responsible for the wrong, at the very moment that you follow through with this...

2) You've met the love of your life, and then lost her

I don't know if he was the love of my life...but I did, at one time, consider him to be my soul-mate...

3) You've watched a great friend slowly die because of a brain tumor.

Or HIV/AIDS, another type of cancer, or disease....anything terminal...

4) You've experienced hating someone in your immediate family that you think it's worth taking your own life.

Uh..wha?? If you hate anyone, you are either using the wrong word or have serious anger management issues...I don't see how hating another person makes you want to take your own life, though...

5) You've met friends on TFP.

Add that to the "experience" part of living.

[pinkie]

Originally Posted by skier

You haven't lived unless you:

1. Relenquish control of yourself, even for just a short time.
2. Fall in love.
3. Witness death firsthand.
4. Witness birth firsthand.

Well I guess by this definition, I've lived.

[Delirious]

You haven't lived until you've saved someone's life

You haven't lived until you've been in true love.

[danny_boy]

Parasailing

[cellophanedeity]

Until you kiss naked in the rain.

[questone]

Fallen in love, had your heart broken, etc.

[ranger]

rock climbing. balls out bounding around on giant rocks.

my favorites for going nuts are Devil's Lake WI and Red Rock Canyon NV

[whatsonwhat]

Devil's Lake for sure...ridiculous rock climbing, so much fun.

[Hektore]

Been naked in front of a very large group of people for no apparent reason.
Been proven completely and humiliatingly wrong.