100 THINGS LEFT TO DO BEFORE I DIE
1. Become legally ordained
2. Take a bikram yoga class
3. Ask out a complete stranger
4. Visit Machu Picchu
5. Watch both a sunrise and sunset in the same day
6. Witness the Aurora Borealis
7. Knock down a wall with a sledgehammer
8. Shoot a gun
9. Spend Thanksgiving Day volunteering at a soup kitchen
10. Learn how to bake my own bread
11. Go parasailing
12. Volunteer at an animal shelter
13. Buy a road bike
14. Take a nap in a hammock
15. Adopt an animal of my own
16. Go skinny dipping
17. Try out white water rafting
18. Build a house with Habitat for Humanity
19. Knit a scarf
20. Write my memoirs
21. Bury a time capsule
22. Move to California
23. Go horseback riding on the beach
24. Send a message in a bottle
25. Spend the day saying “YES” to everything
26. Take a helicopter ride
27. Eat authentic Indian food in India
28. Hike a volcano
29. Read an entire (lengthy) book in one day
30. Participate in a protest
31. Visit the Wailing Wall
32. Soak in a natural hot spring
33. Be someone’s mentor
34. Master and successfully perform a magic trick
35. Create my own signature fragrance
36. Ride on a motorcycle
37. Learn how to belly dance
38. Walk part of the Great Wall of China
39. Watch the 'flight of bats' in Austin
40. Go fishing
41. Partake in an African safari
42. Plant a vegetable garden
43. Race a car on a race track
44. Explore a rainforest
45. Try all the flavors at Baskin Robbins
46. Ride an elephant
47. Go to Munich for Oktoberfest
48. Be a part of the Dia de Los Muertos festival
49. See a show at Red Rocks
50. Swim with dolphins
51. Be in the audience on one of my favorite talk shows
52. Visit the Great Barrier Reef
53. Learn Origami
54. Pay for the car behind me at the toll booth
55. Make a career out of something I love
56. Take a self-defense class
57. Complete an entire coloring book in one sitting
58. Become a mother
59. Make a quilt
60. Sign over a full paycheck to a charity
61. Go to an airport and buy a ticket for the next available flight to…anywhere
62. Get stung by a bee
63. Learn how to develop film in a black room
64. Participate in a flash mob
65. Go to a high school reunion for a high school I did not actually attend
66. Steal a road sign
67. Save someone’s life
68. Buy a house
69. Take a vow of silence for one day
70. Create a photo on canvas
71. Put change in someone’s expired parking meter
72. Visit Tokyo
73. Write my own will
74. Learn to (fearlessly) ice skate
75. Eat Moroccan food
76. Go skydiving
77. Sit on a jury
78. Visit Graceland
79. Write a fan letter to Elton John
80. See the Taj Mahal
81. Learn how to bartend
82. Get a tattoo
83. Sit in a split
84. Eat fried green tomatoes
85. Go on a cross-country road trip
86. Experience Rio Carnival
87. Help make someone's dream come true
88. Swing on a trapeze
89. Make my own pasta noodles
90. Learn how to throw a boomerang properly
91. Spend a whole day out in my pajamas
92. Go golfing
93. Meet my sponsor child, Hirusha
94. Learn to play the harmonica
95. Visit the Grand Ole Opry
96. Partake in a couples dancing lesson
97. Go bungee jumping
98. Ride a mechanical bull
99. Visit Victoria Falls
100. Fall in love, for the last time...
Why do I want to do these things? Because I now know that it isn't death I'm afraid of...I'm afraid of not living a full life the way I see fit.
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