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ladysprite) wrote2011-05-26 08:29 am
ladysprite) wrote2011-05-26 08:29 am
Life List
One of the side effects of planning trips and organizing and things like that is that I've been thinking a lot lately about stuff I want to do. And I realize that I've been incredibly lucky so far in my life, in that I've managed to do a surprising amount of the Things I Want To Do Before I Die, already.
(Not that I'm ever going to die, but without a deadline like that it just winds up being Things I Want To Do Someday, which isn't nearly as impactful.)
I've gone hang gliding, and sky diving, and snorkeling with manatees. I've acted, danced, and written, all professionally (at least technically). I've written and run a LARP, I've moved to Boston, I've walked in the Susan G. Komen 3 Day, I've saved a human life...
And that has left me with the realization that most of the things left on my life-list are, at this point, rather large and some combination of costly and unlikely.
Travel to Venice
Dance with John Travolta
Leave the planet
Go to London, eat beef chow mein at Lee Ho Fook's
Be immortalized in every form of art possible (okay, this one has been kind of back-burnered)
Learn every form of dance in the world
Become a consultant for Hollywood on the subject of accurate science in TV and movies
Eat fugu
Get my name into a movie's credits
So... I'm not going to abandon any of those plans, not by a long shot - I fully intend to actually follow through on all of them. But I need to start thinking of additional, more easily-hit goals, as well. I've got a few -
Actually take a cake decorating class
Learn to surf
Become good enough at tango that I can actually go out and do it in public
Learn how to sing
Be an extra in a movie
Work a single project sheep to shawl (or at least spin the yarn myself, then make something from it)
....and I'm sure I'll think of more, but I'm only one person, and I have some darn creative friends. So tell me, folks, what sort of things do you think I should do before I die? And what's on your Life List?
(Not that I'm ever going to die, but without a deadline like that it just winds up being Things I Want To Do Someday, which isn't nearly as impactful.)
I've gone hang gliding, and sky diving, and snorkeling with manatees. I've acted, danced, and written, all professionally (at least technically). I've written and run a LARP, I've moved to Boston, I've walked in the Susan G. Komen 3 Day, I've saved a human life...
And that has left me with the realization that most of the things left on my life-list are, at this point, rather large and some combination of costly and unlikely.
Travel to Venice
Dance with John Travolta
Leave the planet
Go to London, eat beef chow mein at Lee Ho Fook's
Be immortalized in every form of art possible (okay, this one has been kind of back-burnered)
Learn every form of dance in the world
Become a consultant for Hollywood on the subject of accurate science in TV and movies
Eat fugu
Get my name into a movie's credits
So... I'm not going to abandon any of those plans, not by a long shot - I fully intend to actually follow through on all of them. But I need to start thinking of additional, more easily-hit goals, as well. I've got a few -
Actually take a cake decorating class
Learn to surf
Become good enough at tango that I can actually go out and do it in public
Learn how to sing
Be an extra in a movie
Work a single project sheep to shawl (or at least spin the yarn myself, then make something from it)
....and I'm sure I'll think of more, but I'm only one person, and I have some darn creative friends. So tell me, folks, what sort of things do you think I should do before I die? And what's on your Life List?
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