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:

-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.

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

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

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

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...

for me, it was having a baby.

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

Go to a naked beach

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

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.

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....

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

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.

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.)

Great thread...
 

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...

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)

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.

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!)

You havent lived until you've had children.

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

-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.

-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

-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.

-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.

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





... couldn't resist the gag!

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...
I had my son, Ashton, the day after my birthday...I'm 20 years, 13 hours and 32 mins older than him. ;)
Or been in any life threatening situation...

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...
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...
Or HIV/AIDS, another type of cancer, or disease....anything terminal...
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...
Add that to the "experience" part of living. :D

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

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

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

Parasailing

Until you kiss naked in the rain.

Fallen in love, had your heart broken, etc.

rock climbing. balls out bounding around on giant rocks.

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

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

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

well I'm going to make this a list of things I'd like to try in my lifetime:

visit other countries
run a marathon (or at least a 5k)
start a family
enter a design contest (or something that involves talent)

Argue the opposite ideal you believe in.
Swim naked in the ocean.
Travel (for pleasure) somewhere new by yourself.
Drive through the poorest section of your city and have lunch.

1.-Spend a night at Foxwoods Casino and loose $2000, drunk!
2.-Ride a motorcycle
3.-Go to a all you can eat lobster, seafood, prime rib ,and steak buffet for about 5 hours!
4.-Go sledding in winter
5.-Get a tatoo
6.-Go to Amsterdam
7.-Smoke out of a water bong
8.-Ride a bicycle for 50 miles anywhere
9.-Really gotten into a video game
10.-Read a book
:thumbsup:

Jumped off a 50-foot waterfall. I've done many exciting things but this takes the cake.

absolutely!

you haven't really lived until you have...
--saved a life
--stood outside in 85 mph hurricane winds
--laid on the beach at night and watched a lightning storm roll in (don't stand, silly!)
--poured too much lighter fluid on the charcoal... and lit it, anyway
--told your boss/coworker what you REALLY think
--made a sidewalk chalk mural in a public place
--changed entire outfits on I-4 at 60 mph in rush hour
--had a complete conversation with a three year old
--explain death to a child
--explain love to a child
--tell someone how incredibly in love with them you are

You haven't lived until you've felt all the extremes of feeling... the intensity of uncontainable happiness, or the depths of inconsolable sadness, the anguish of pain, and the serenity of complete, awe-inspiring calm.

*Kept it real and survived a day downtown Mooza B.

Stuff I've done:

-asked someone out who made me so nervous that my hands shake

-punched a hole in a wall and realize that I can do that any time I want

-gotten so into a book, video game, and/or conversation that sleep wasn't that importent and would just get in my way

-quit my J.O.B. because I can offord too

Stuff to look forward to:

-master a martial art or two

-invite a bunch of friends and/or family to dinner, and pick up the tab with out looking at the bill

-run a successful business

-pay for my own wedding

-be airlifted to a mountain top for my wedding

I second the live to see my children grow up

visit ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY <-- a very sobering event

go to a different part of your town you've never been to and say hi to some people

if you find a group of old men sitting in the shade, stop and listen. Wisdom comes from the old. You'd be supprised.

Go to the city cout and sit in and watch what happens to those that break the law.

the very next horrible thunder storm, sit out side in the heart of it and listen... you'll know what your looking for.

Pick some wild flowers.

go up to the next woman you see that looks sad and if your wearing a hat take it off and say, "mam I hope your day turns out to be as lovely as you are." no its not cheezy, words like that will bring you a smile men have fought for down the timeline of history.

open a door for someone.

tell the grocery store bagger you got this one, you know how tired they are.

Take a honest to god train ride. sometimes getting there is the actualy adventure.

You havent lived until you have climbed a biggest mountain, be it the biggest in your town, state, country or the world.

i have to totally agree with that!