Things to do before i die.

And i don't mean it in a morbid way nor an Austin-Power-Sleep-with-Japanese-Twins-Way. Just a mental note i guess.

Was sitting in starbucks @ Times Square on a workday morning after a late night shoot, getting caffienated for a day of shopping after baby dropped me off on his way to work. Watched in fast-forward monotone, productive citizens with actual jobs stream by. I simply realised that That's going to be me in no time. I will become that Fast forward monotone. From 19 to 27 in a blink of an eye & wonder where it all went.

Feeling awfully transient, i wrote down on a tissue paper things that i just have to do before my life passes me by. Things that if i did & were to die the very next day, would do so most compliantly.

• Get a book published.
• Make love on a beach.
• Patch up with parents.
• Travel somewhere alone.
• Share a meal with a stranger.
• Learn to speak chinese.
• Date a blonde & call her Ginger.
• Take a culinary arts course.
• Forgive.
• Get medicated.
• Make the garden i always wanted.
• Find my own "Unicorn".
• Run a large charity campaign.
• Marry someone i love, not just someone who loves me.
• Live past 30.
• Make, not find happiness...

It sounds awfully random & quite unlike what everyone would imagine yet it came to me as almost second nature. Things which i've put off, never got around to do or always wanted or pondered. Left out all the silly,impossible,improbable,unrealistic things. Just the simple stuff i've hoped for. If fulfilling that is not what life's about then what is life about? That's still the million dollar question. Hope it gets you thinking though. Of what U want to do in your lifetime. Hope you fulfil yours as i will do mine. All in time :)

Comments

[Henry]

Many of the things on this list seem so simple to accomplish; hell one imagines you could get them done by next week if so decided.( I recommend culinary course, learning to use knives is always a good thing) (though that may interfere with your efforts to grow your nails....)

Others though... like things on these list often are; are things that even a lifetime spent may not be enough. (learning Chinese for example...)

I for one lean towards this notion that taking things one step at a time is good, and it's often the simple things that are difficult.

[wkhai]

i only have one item on my list - sky-dive :P

that's been on my list for the past 8 years now... it's one of those "optional but I'd really like to do it" things

other than that, other items are "matter of fact / matter of time"