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I saw this list a long time ago. I always thought I'd be happy if I did even 80 of them.

Every so often, over the years, I come across it again and then I check to see how I'm doing. I've managed 67 so far, and I'm looking at the remaining 23 and also wondering how many other things could have been on this list.

How many have you done? How many would you like to do in your life?

100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE.

1. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.

3. Swim with a dolphin.

4. Skydive.

5. Have your portrait painted.

6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.

7. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.

8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

10. Be an extra in a film.

11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.

12. Make love on a forest floor.

13. Make love on a train.

14. Learn to rollerblade.

15. Own a room with a view.

16. Brew your own beer.

17. Learn how to take a compliment.

18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a backpack, and run away.

19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.

20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.

21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.

22. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.

23. Send a message in a bottle.

24. Ride a camel into the desert.

25. Get to know your neighbors.

26. Plant a tree.

27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.

28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.

29. Visit the government and see how it really works.

30. Learn to ballroom dance properly.

31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.

32. Be the boss.

33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.

34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

35. Sit on a jury.

36. Write the novel you know you have inside you.

37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.

38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home.

39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.

40.Be someone's mentor.

41. Shower in a waterfall.

42. Ask for a raise.

43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.

44. Teach someone illiterate to read.

45. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.

47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.

48. See a lunar eclipse.

49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.

51. Experience weightlessness.

52. Sing a great song in front of an audience.

53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.

54. Drive across America from coast to coast.

55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.

57. Write your will.

58. Sleep under the stars.

59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.

60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.

62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

63, Forgive your parents.

64. Learn to juggle with three balls.

65. Drive the Autobahn.

66. Find a job you love.

67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.

68. Overcome your fear of failure.

69. Raft through the Grand Canyon.

70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.

72. Grow a garden.

73. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.

74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.

75. Accept yourself for who you are.

76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

78. Go up in a hot-air balloon.

79. Attend one really huge rock concert.

80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.

82. Give to a charity -- anonymously.

83. Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.

84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.

85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.

86. Fart in a crowded space.

87. Make love on the kitchen floor.

88. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.

89. Create your own web site.

90. Visit the Holy Land.

91. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

93. Create your Family Tree.

94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.

95. Make a hole-in-one.

96. Ski a double-black diamond run.

97. Learn to bartend.

98. Run a marathon.

99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.

100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

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Get up before dawn just to see the sun rise over the Kalahari.

(Trust me).

I have not yet done Kalahari. But would love to one day. Maybe there should be "100 sunrises and sunsets to see before I die" too.

Ive seen some amazing ones in Himalayas, from a yacht at sea, Maldives, India, Western Sahara, from highest point in Morocco (Tizi 'n Tes Pass), Gunung Agung in Bali, Simpson desert (Aust)...

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Get up before dawn just to see the sun rise over the Kalahari.

(Trust me).

I have not yet done Kalahari. But would love to one day. Maybe there should be "100 sunrises and sunsets to see before I die" too.

Ive seen some amazing ones in Himalayas, from a yacht at sea, Maldives, India, Western Sahara, from highest point in Morocco (Tizi 'n Tes Pass), Gunung Agung in Bali, Simpson desert (Aust)...

Pistols at dawn then... bring your (beer) bottle opener!

Seriously though, looking forwards to meeting you,

Cheers.

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Get up before dawn just to see the sun rise over the Kalahari.

(Trust me).

I have not yet done Kalahari. But would love to one day. Maybe there should be "100 sunrises and sunsets to see before I die" too.

Ive seen some amazing ones in Himalayas, from a yacht at sea, Maldives, India, Western Sahara, from highest point in Morocco (Tizi 'n Tes Pass), Gunung Agung in Bali, Simpson desert (Aust)...

Pistols at dawn then... bring your (beer) bottle opener!

Seriously though, looking forwards to meeting you,

Cheers.

Haha... yeah.... there's another catagory... "best beers (or drinks) at dawn". Had a few of those as well.

I was in Sapa Vietnam in the early 90's (also lived in VN for 2 years recently). I went for a long walk before dawn and ended up at this old guy's little house on the edge of a lookout point. He spoke no English, but we sat together, surrounded by his chickens pecking in the dirt. His wife was up and cooking in their humble shack behind us. The smoke from her fire made all the sun's first light beams look like a dream in the crisp, clear mountain air.

As the sun came up, we looked out into one of the most incredible valleys I have ever seen. Perfectly cut, terraced rice paddies down the sides of the mountains, down to the bottom of the valley, made 100's of years ago. The surrounding mountains looked just like some of those old Chinese paintings, with soft clouds hugging the round peaks. I sat with that old man as he happily shared his home-made rice wine. We giggled like fools and got very pissed in about 10 minutes. But i remember every second of that awesome morning.

BTW....Glad to hear i only have to carry the bottle opener to the location. I assume then that you're gonna carry the beer. Good deal :lol:

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I like this post, I did 43 of them but I don't know how much more I am going to do, I d don't see myself travelling to London or any dessert sometime soon for example nor interested in seeing the launch of a rocket (unless I'd be in it maybe).

I would like to see some of them replaced like,

Know your pain and recognize it in others

experience a car crash (which you shouldn't try to do on purpose)

try to steal something in a store get caught but talk yourself out of it

get to know your parents (instead of your neighbours)

get fired

visit your old secondary school and experience how young you've been and looked

etc

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I like this post, I did 43 of them but I don't know how much more I am going to do, I d don't see myself travelling to London or any dessert sometime soon for example nor interested in seeing the launch of a rocket (unless I'd be in it maybe).

I would like to see some of them replaced like,

Know your pain and recognize it in others

experience a car crash (which you shouldn't try to do on purpose)

try to steal something in a store get caught but talk yourself out of it

get to know your parents (instead of your neighbours)

get fired

visit your old secondary school and experience how young you've been and looked

etc

I was hoping people would add some to this list too. Even though (mostly unfortunately) I've also done all the ones you've added here. Have you done them yet? And wow, you've done 43 of the above list??!!.... Thats a great achievement for someone so young. Well done :D

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I like this post, I did 43 of them but I don't know how much more I am going to do, I d don't see myself travelling to London or any dessert sometime soon for example nor interested in seeing the launch of a rocket (unless I'd be in it maybe).

I would like to see some of them replaced like,

Know your pain and recognize it in others

experience a car crash (which you shouldn't try to do on purpose)

try to steal something in a store get caught but talk yourself out of it

get to know your parents (instead of your neighbours)

get fired

visit your old secondary school and experience how young you've been and looked

etc

I was hoping people would add some to this list too. Even though (mostly unfortunately) I've also done all the ones you've added here. Have you done them yet? And wow, you've done 43 of the above list??!!.... Thats a great achievement for someone so young. Well done :D

I did experience them, I've been in 3 crashes already but never inflicted real physical damage to me or the other driver thank god. it made me decide that if I were to live in a place like BKK I'D NEVER buy my own car because luck just runs out every now & again.

The first one is one that needs much more development, I don't know my parents good enough as well, the only time I had peacefull conversations with my dad were if we were sitting together late at night having some beers. But once I know myself I'll probably know him better too because it seems we're a lot alike.

the first 43 were mostly because of good luck, again you shouldn't be surprised if I don't get past 50, but I'll try :D

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86. Fart in a crowded space.

you know, you could fart the smelliest fart you ever did smell.... and in Bangkok, you would never smell it.

The air just is too thick to make out the difference.

i don't know about that. some beer, some beans, some dodgy meat on a stick...

and i bet i can drop a silent but violent that brings the ambulance folk out. (again).

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2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends // 5. Have your portrait painted // 6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it // 9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty // 13. Make love on a train // 23. Send a message in a bottle // 25. Get to know your neighbors // 26. Plant a tree // 27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no // 28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine // 33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally // 36. Write the novel you know you have inside you // 38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home // 41. Shower in a waterfall // 42. Ask for a raise // 43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill // 47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time // 49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location // 53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date // 55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself // 58. Sleep under the stars // 62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel // 63, Forgive your parents // 66. Find a job you love // 72. Grow a garden // 75. Accept yourself for who you are // 76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public // 89. Create your own web site.

Only 28 ! :?

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2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends // 5. Have your portrait painted // 6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it // 9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty // 13. Make love on a train // 23. Send a message in a bottle // 25. Get to know your neighbors // 26. Plant a tree // 27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no // 28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine // 33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally // 36. Write the novel you know you have inside you // 38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home // 41. Shower in a waterfall // 42. Ask for a raise // 43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill // 47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time // 49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location // 53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date // 55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself // 58. Sleep under the stars // 62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel // 63, Forgive your parents // 66. Find a job you love // 72. Grow a garden // 75. Accept yourself for who you are // 76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public // 89. Create your own web site.

Only 28 ! :?

Sassy... can i read that novel? Well donee so far :wink:

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86. Fart in a crowded space.

you know, you could fart the smelliest fart you ever did smell.... and in Bangkok, you would never smell it.

The air just is too thick to make out the difference.

i don't know about that. some beer, some beans, some dodgy meat on a stick...

and i bet i can drop a silent but violent that brings the ambulance folk out. (again).

May the Fart be with you, young Jedi :wink:

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6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it. // 8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle. //9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty. // 11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details. // 14. Learn to rollerblade. // 17. Learn how to take a compliment. // 21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show. // 25. Get to know your neighbors. // 26. Plant a tree. // 27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no. // 28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine. // 29. Visit the government and see how it really works. // 32. Be the boss. // 33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally. // 40.Be someone's mentor. // 41. Shower in a waterfall. // 42. Ask for a raise. // 50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it. // 52. Sing a great song in front of an audience. // 55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. // 57. Write your will. // 58. Sleep under the stars. // 60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it! // 62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel. // 63. Forgive your parents. // 64. Learn to juggle with three balls. // 66. Find a job you love. // 68. Overcome your fear of failure. // 70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park. // 75. Accept yourself for who you are. // 80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date. // 81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors. // 82. Give to a charity -- anonymously. // 97. Learn to bartend. // 99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile. // 100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

>>> just 36 !!!! many thing on the go

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done, hot ****. ( 8 )

1. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open. ajax 0-1 panathinaikos, 1996 champs league semifinal. won the away leg 0-3, amsterdam turned into the biggest party've ever seen. 12. Make love on a forest floor.*any* good sex is alright in my book. 15. Own a room with a view.rented one, that counts as far as i'm concerned, as i tend not to like to own things. 33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally. perhaps the only thing scarier than death. 36. Write the novel you know you have inside you.i'm assuming that a) it doesn't have to be a novel (screenplay, nonfiction book, short stories, etc can count?) , and B) it doesn't have to be completely finished and c) it doesn't have to be the ultimate greatest best screenplay/novel/etc. generally i enjoy writing and i'm halfway satisfied with some of the stuff i've written (or is in progress). 54. Drive across America from coast to coast.wasn't THAT big of a deal but i'll probably do it again. 66. Find a job you love. would be nice if / when it pays better. 91. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget. most notable were Poston and S-21.

done, no biggie ( 38 )

2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends. 9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty. 10. Be an extra in a film. 11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details. 16. Brew your own beer. 19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month. 20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her. 21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show. 23. Send a message in a bottle. 25. Get to know your neighbors. 26. Plant a tree. 27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no. 29. Visit the government and see how it really works. 32. Be the boss. 35. Sit on a jury. (didn't actually sit as i wan't chosen, but went through the process, the interviews, etc more than once so close enough.) 38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home. 40.Be someone's mentor. 42. Ask for a raise. 46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself. 47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time. 48. See a lunar eclipse. 49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location. 50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it. 53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date. 55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. 56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit. 58. Sleep under the stars. 60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it! 62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel. 63, Forgive your parents. 79. Attend one really huge rock concert. 80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date. 81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors. 82. Give to a charity -- anonymously. 86. Fart in a crowded space. 7. Make love on the kitchen floor. 88. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch. 89. Create your own web site.

would be hot **** (9)

3. Swim with a dolphin. 22. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.if i could afford it and if it were really gonna happen, sure. 24. Ride a camel into the desert. 34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia. might be doing this in april or so. 51. Experience weightlessness. i'd get that if i go on the moon shuttle? 61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival. TITTIES!!!!:shock: 68. Overcome your fear of failure.don't think it's possible to do completely, more something one has to manage than obliterate perhaps. 73. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape. with the caveat that i don't think it's possible to get in "optimum shape" in three months unless you're in fantastic shape at the start of the three months. 77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. i might not be able to do this, i seem to have permanently f**ked my sinuses by diving with a cold.

interested, but failed so far (10)

6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it. 13. Make love on a train (damn close once) 18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a backpack, and run away.(doesn't look like i'll make it all the way in one shot). 69. Raft through the Grand Canyon. 78. Go up in a hot-air balloon. 84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes. (they weren't peeled)90. Visit the Holy Land. 92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty. 98. Run a marathon. 99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile. (haven't made up my mind yet whether i want a kid, don't have any)

haven't done, not that interested. (26)

5. Have your portrait painted. 7. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France. 8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle. does TV count? 17. Learn how to take a compliment. 28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine. 30. Learn to ballroom dance properly. 31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.(no biggie, i've eaten all sorts of eels and other more interesting things like quail in London) 39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich. 41. Shower in a waterfall. 43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill. 44. Teach someone illiterate to read. 45. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380. 57. Write your will. 59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country. 64. Learn to juggle with three balls. 65. Drive the Autobahn. 67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas. 70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park. 71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want. 72. Grow a garden. 85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab. 93. Create your Family Tree.(my dad's doing this actually) 94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium. 95. Make a hole-in-one. 96. Ski a double-black diamond run. 97. Learn to bartend.

no effing way. (5)

4. Skydive. 14. Learn to rollerblade. 37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe. (i don't effing LIKE Thoreau). 52. Sing a great song in front of an audience. 83. Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas. (boring and stupid)

n/a (1)

100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

i dont' think my short attention span *is* my greatest strength.

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6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it. // 8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle. //9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty. // 11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details. // 14. Learn to rollerblade. // 17. Learn how to take a compliment. // 21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show. // 25. Get to know your neighbors. // 26. Plant a tree. // 27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no. // 28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine. // 29. Visit the government and see how it really works. // 32. Be the boss. // 33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally. // 40.Be someone's mentor. // 41. Shower in a waterfall. // 42. Ask for a raise. // 50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it. // 52. Sing a great song in front of an audience. // 55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. // 57. Write your will. // 58. Sleep under the stars. // 60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it! // 62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel. // 63. Forgive your parents. // 64. Learn to juggle with three balls. // 66. Find a job you love. // 68. Overcome your fear of failure. // 70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park. // 75. Accept yourself for who you are. // 80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date. // 81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors. // 82. Give to a charity -- anonymously. // 97. Learn to bartend. // 99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile. // 100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

>>> just 36 !!!! many thing on the go

:lol:

Ok. great. well done!!! :) am really looking forward to see how you bartend (I like a nice marguarita) and also juggle 3 balls....oh.... and can you do my tax return this year too?....

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2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.

6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.

9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

10. Be an extra in a film.

11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.

12. Make love on a forest floor.

14. Learn to roller blade.

15. Own a room with a view.

16. Brew your own beer.

20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.

25. Get to know your neighbours.

26. Plant a tree.

28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favourite hero or heroine.

32. Be the boss.

33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.

38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home.

40.Be someone's mentor.

41. Shower in a waterfall.

42. Ask for a raise.

48. See a lunar eclipse.

52. Sing a great song in front of an audience.

53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.

55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

58. Sleep under the stars.

60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

63, Forgive your parents.

65. Drive the Autobahn.

71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.

74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.

80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

82. Give to a charity -- anonymously.

84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.

86. Fart in a crowded space.

89. Create your own web site.

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