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Things to do before you go...
Lodbrok
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In these last couple of years, a lot of bad things have happened to friends, acquaintances and coworkers of mine. Cancer, major heart-surgeries and so on. Now, I have always had a pretty down-to-earth way of looking at life and death, but these things somehow brought it closer. I've talked to friends about what you would do if you were told that you only had one year to live, this came up because a co-worker got lung-cancer at the age of thirty. We talked about this a bit, but came to the conclusion that a lot of the things that we would like to do might not be possible if you were not in good health. So why post-pone these things you would really like to do until it might not no longer be possible? To quote Fight Club: "If you died right now, what would you regret not having done in your life?"
As for me, I've had a short list of things for a long time... might not be very special things, but they all hold some personal significanse to me.
1. See a total solar eclipse. When I was young, I was quite interested in astronomy, and for some reason the idea of solar eclipses stuck with me. It is said to be a very special experience, something out of this world almost. This is something I plan to do one day, just need to get myself to a suitable place once the opportunity comes up.
2. Climb a 6000 meter mountain. I've always liked high places, and after a trip the Mount Everest basecamp a some years back this is something I really wish to do. I've never done any alpine climbing, but there are mountains that are possible to climb with just crampons, just a very hard hike more or less. I will do this one day, nothing has touched me quite as much as just sitting there looking up at the highest point on earth. Someone wrote: "It might be in the mountains that the traveller looses his soul, but it is also in the mountains he will find it again."
(this is Siula Grande, anyone who has read/seen Touching the void knows why this is not a suitable choise! Excellent book by the way)
3. Ride my motorcycle (preferably) to the North Cape. This is something I've wanted to do for a loooong time. North Cape is the point in Norway (and Europe) that is furthest north. Or actually, there are other places that are reaches further north into the arctic ocean, but none as scenic. When I was fifteen, I read a short-story about someone who hiked to the North Cape cliff sometime in the fifties, before the road was built. A sentece from that story stuck with me "Nowhere on earth are you as close to eternity as on the North Cape cliff." This is probably the easiest thing for me to do right away if I wanted to, I live in Sweden so it is just some 1800 kilometers to drive... next summer perhaps.
Not the most original list perhaps, but these things have been with me for a long time. I know some people have goals like "Get a son" and stuff like that, but I've tried to keep to things I know I can make happen on my own and have a reasonable chance of actually following through on.
So, what are the things you wish to do before you go? As far as I am concerned, anything might fit on a list like this, so please share.
As for me, I've had a short list of things for a long time... might not be very special things, but they all hold some personal significanse to me.
1. See a total solar eclipse. When I was young, I was quite interested in astronomy, and for some reason the idea of solar eclipses stuck with me. It is said to be a very special experience, something out of this world almost. This is something I plan to do one day, just need to get myself to a suitable place once the opportunity comes up.
2. Climb a 6000 meter mountain. I've always liked high places, and after a trip the Mount Everest basecamp a some years back this is something I really wish to do. I've never done any alpine climbing, but there are mountains that are possible to climb with just crampons, just a very hard hike more or less. I will do this one day, nothing has touched me quite as much as just sitting there looking up at the highest point on earth. Someone wrote: "It might be in the mountains that the traveller looses his soul, but it is also in the mountains he will find it again."
(this is Siula Grande, anyone who has read/seen Touching the void knows why this is not a suitable choise! Excellent book by the way)
3. Ride my motorcycle (preferably) to the North Cape. This is something I've wanted to do for a loooong time. North Cape is the point in Norway (and Europe) that is furthest north. Or actually, there are other places that are reaches further north into the arctic ocean, but none as scenic. When I was fifteen, I read a short-story about someone who hiked to the North Cape cliff sometime in the fifties, before the road was built. A sentece from that story stuck with me "Nowhere on earth are you as close to eternity as on the North Cape cliff." This is probably the easiest thing for me to do right away if I wanted to, I live in Sweden so it is just some 1800 kilometers to drive... next summer perhaps.
Not the most original list perhaps, but these things have been with me for a long time. I know some people have goals like "Get a son" and stuff like that, but I've tried to keep to things I know I can make happen on my own and have a reasonable chance of actually following through on.
So, what are the things you wish to do before you go? As far as I am concerned, anything might fit on a list like this, so please share.
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And if I have any kids I don't plan on turning them into some kind of project. I'll just feed the bastards and let them do their own thing.
Of course, but I think the question is "what does succeed mean to you?"
At this stage in my life I can't be happy with a small list, so "Succeed" represents that never-ending attempt to do everything, and do it well.
It's kind of cliché but I would like to run a marathon at some point in my life, probably within the next five years.
I would like to have son(s), pass on my family name and all, because I am the only male with my grandfather's last name in our family.
Get into a real fight.
DMT.
That is about all that I can think of. I could say have a good career and whatnot, but if I could drop out of the race as it were, I think I'd like to do that.
I feel the same way. It in some ways is a fairly simple goal, but I've never made anything before, writing or otherwise, that totally sat well with me. I'd love to make something and feel like it was 100% what I wanted. I could support it so much more if I felt that way.
so, same as Hoz.
Luscious, lusting, zestful, attractive, and respected wife.
Tour the world? --> Create babies in foreign countries.
1) Play in the WSOP in Las Vegas and make it past the first day. Alternatively, I'd take a table w/ Negreanu, Hellmuth, Ivey, Brunson or Chan where I win a pot.
2) Play Pebble Beach w/ my Dad.
3) Get married and have children.
4) Do the Sudan Couloir race.
2) Tour the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
3) Shave my head
2. Read all the classic books.
3. Make several successful movies for show at certain film festivals.
4. Live in an apartment with friends/colleagues as roomates.
I've always wanted that, you know? The whole "Friends" tv show experience. It's so very homely. Also, I'd hate to drift away from such people.
2. Drive a car at 200mph.
3. Be paid to do what I love (painting and photography).
4. Get a degree in biology.
2) Write/Direct a feature film
3) Ecstasy
4) 3-Way with my wife and some other suitably desirable lady.
I think that'd about cover it. Oh, one more--
5) Finish playing Fallout 1/2, and Planescape: Torment.
I think I could call it a life well lived after all that.
1) Finish my damn movie
2) Have people applaud it during our theatre release
3) Use any proffits to begin new movie and self publish my comic.
4) Get offered the chance to be the new smith or Tarantino
5) Be Maxim Magazines monthly interview
6) Own a house with a "man cave" basement that's got everything i've ever dreamed of in it, including the high def projector, pop up pool table that comes up from a hole in the ground, full bar and keg cooler, robotic bartender (already designed it), a small arcade, and a walk in humidor.
Swing by this winter and we can go.
took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
2. See the Titanic in person
3. Ride along in a fighter jet
4. "See the world"
5. Set foot in every ocean
6. Take a McLaren F1 to its top speed
7. Drive the entire California coastline in a convertible
8. Learn how to surf
9. Party in Ibiza, Spain during the summer
10. Create a story (movie, game, novel) that becomes at least one person's favorite story of all time
There are lots of other things I want to do, but those are the first ones that come to mind.
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I've managed 17 of them so far; but they're mostly the mundane ones (plus the odd extravagant one here and there). "Do you have a pointless collection?" Yes! I collect night-club flyers! *sticks star onto page whilst sticking tongue out side of mouth*
But it's the extravagant ones I'm after...like making a discovery. Or meet someone with my own name. (I Googled my name...the only one I could find lives in Oregon.). Or learn how to play an instrument; preferably the piano, to up the ante on Guitar Hero.