The You Haven't Lived til you done this thread
 

Okay guys, this one is just for fun and obviously just personal experiences.
List what you think are some things that

"Have to be done in life" events


For me:

Everyone should at least try to white water raft once in their life.
Kiss someone you don't know
Give a speech


I'm really interested it what you guys have to say.

Go hunting/fishing.
See a concert or sporting event live.
Travel to another country.

Do some wintersports (most preferably snowboarding :-) ).
See one of your favorite bands playing live.
Take a long journey with a train.

Dress up as something completely ridiculous for Halloween.

Do something generous and exceptionally nice, unexpectedly and anonymously for someone who needs it.

Stop somewhere unscheduled just to check it out.

Try different types of ethnic foods.

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.

You haven't lived until you've:

Shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

You haven't lived until:

1. You've been conceived.
2. You've done karaoke.
3. You've had your heart broken.
4. You've touched/tasted/felt a womans breast.

1.) Gotten drunk in good company.
2.) Done DDR.

Gotten off your ass and done something worthwhile...

Worn a kilt....the right way

What do I want to do?

Live long enought to see my kids grow up (dont have much say over that 1 :))
Visit South America, especially Peru & Chile - quite a long way from Ireland.
Climb Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain in the world at 19,335ft.

Take a different way to work/school/home.

Say I love you to your best friend.

Enjoy just being.

Seen Springsteen in concert

Read anything by Richard Brautigan

I swear I was going to say that one when I started reading this thread!

*Spun Records with Dieselboy and Dj Dara

*Watched 10,000 people get off on your music

*taken over the world

Hiked to a remote spot in the mountains and just sat listening to the forest and smelling the fresh crisp air.

Pushed yourself beyond what you thought your physical/mental/emotional limits were.

Helped someone with no thought of reward.

Got close enough to a wild animal to touch it, in it's own habitat.

Looked into someone's eyes and realized that you're hopelessly in love with them.

hmm..I have done about 90% of these things which makes me feel pretty good!

I would say:
Have your heart broken so totally that you think you will die..but you don't

have your heart broken
been scared so badly you think you might pass out
laughed so hard you cried
travelled to a different country
had a crush on someone who doesn't return the feeling
loved someone so much you'd take a bullet for them
...thats all I can think of off the top of my head...

You haven't lived until you've died. Otherwise it's a work in progress.

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Amen to that last bit, there is nothing more satisfying.

[1] Spontaneously do something just for the sake of doing it
[2] Achieve an important, long them goal
[3] Confront your greatest fear and share it
[4] Do something that makes you happy, which can sometimes be easy to forget in today's busy world.

-top end a car (ie go as fast as it will possibly go)
-take an unnesseccary road trip
-go to Africa
-completely devote yourself to making your SO as happy as possible
-realize you only have one time around and make the best of it
-very rarely (but do it anyway) buy yourself something you don't need but want bad

I have done some of these things but not all

Seen a Springstein concert, go to New York & see Mama Mia with my wife for our 10 year anniversary (in August), learn acrobatic flying (slated for this summer when I won't freeze in the Pitts!). Those are things I need to do yet. The most important is to live long enough to see my kids get married, and maybe a grandkid or two.

Things I've done that I really wanted to do: learn to fly a plane, see the country, go to England. Getting a college degree is also on the "like to do" list but will probably never come to pass. I'm about two semesters away from two different degrees.

you guys are great, I'm taking mental notes of all these and laughing at the fact that I've done over 50% of them.

Keep them coming

Eaten a five-course meal with good wines accompanying it.

Learned how to cook a five-course meal and select the wines to accompany it.

Done something truly extravagant for once (ie my family ate brunch at the Plaza Hotel in NYC--once in a lifetime experience).

Okay, I really like this thread so far. I can only think of a few for now, but I'll add more later...

1) Become fluent in at least two languages other than your own, more if possible.

2) Visit a politically unstable place (the U.S. doesn't count), hopefully where you speak the language fluently! :)

3) Who cares about regrets. Do stuff that you would regret NOT doing.

I couldn't agree more!

Also, you haven't lived til you've:
-acted in a major motion picture
-learned a martial art
-given a multiple orgasm
-read the Bible, Qur'an, Tao-te-ching, Upanishads, and Torah each, all the way through
-watched every James Bond movie
-finished high school, and realized that it didn't teach you anything you didn't already know
-been in an earthquake or hurrican,or seen a tornado or volcano

You haven't lived until you've:
done stuff

fall in love (over and over)
go salamon fishing
go hunting
kyacking
spend time out in the woods by yourself for a few days

You haven't lived until you have jumped out of a plane.

I did this 3 times and holy moly...what a rush.

...Shoot some h00ge (with emphasis on the 00) weir in a kayak, then turned around with the blood still returning to your extremeties and your seat slightly warmer than normal and thinking i could do that again.
...Fallen in love.
...Fallen out of love.
...Had a very intense hullucinagenic experience through MDMA.
...Looked in the mirror and thought 'Yes, i am THE man'.
...Enjoy just being.

Fished naked

Go sky diving

live life to the fullest

Been addicted to something
Quit that adiction, and gone throught the hell of withdraw
Loved, lost, loved again

If you dont have any scars.. you are not alive.. and..
if you havnt humped your brains out on X.. you are DEFINATELY not alive.

stood in the middle of a group of naked lesbians, and had them rub you off and then rub the cum all over their bodies while they participate in a mass orgy in front of you, and then they tell you that they're not really lesbians, they're all Bi!

oh, and fallen in love, had your heart broken, etc.

Arg... I guess we'll just agree to disagree on this one. :rolleyes:

You haven't lived until you've:
Had a moment of epiphany where you realized just how much you're in love with somebody
Fallen asleep in the arms of a loved one
Stuck up for a friend
Taken the fall for a friend
Remained faithful in the face of temptation
Gotten piss-drunk with your best friends
Slept under the stars
Met an old friend by chance after years of separation, and picked up right where you left off
Lost your mind, only to find it later right where you left it

Been chased by a flock of hungry geese. Yep, I've lived now.

You haven't lived 'till you've:

Eaten moldy bread and not realised it until you're finished.
Spat in someone's eye.
Had a strange foreign object lodged in your rectum, requiring an embarassing trip to the hospital.
Done the C-walk.
Acted like the racial stereotype of every single racial group around the corresponding group.
Given yourself the Dutch oven.

Run a marathon
Travelled to a different continent by yourself
Be in love and be loved back
Do something that will scare you out your wits e.g. bungee jumping
Got drunk
Eat things that make you cringe when it is alive
Do karoake

You haven't lived until you follow your heart and tell your head to f off.

This thread is great. I just read every reply and everything I though of has already been said.


Live and let live. Make every day the best day of your life. There's nothing better than being able to just look out your window and know that you're doing the best you can and that you're just happy to be alive in this great world. :thumbsup: