When I think about my future, I imagine doing a slew of exciting activities. I love risks and appreciate the richness of life. While there are many memorable things I'm proud to have already accomplished, there are also a number of things that I still want to do. Here is my ever-expanding list.
The experiences I want to have sometime in my life:
- cut my hair really short
- meet David Byrne
- drive a motorcycle
- boogie board
- fall in love
- have someone fall in love with me
- bake a cake
- have a lucid dream
- hang-glide
- genuinely not care what others think of me
- learn how to surf
- ride an ostrich
- watch someone go through labor/birth
- see "Casablanca" (the movie)
- have a body-painting party with some open-minded people
- swim in the Mediterranean Sea
- see a solar and/or lunar eclipse
- see Tori Amos in concert
- plant, maintain and harvest a garden
- see a pro basketball game
- windsurf
- do a handstand
- become a mentor for someone else
- take a science lab class
- scuba dive
- go to New Orleans for a jazz festival
- speak another language fluently
- graduate college
- tell a stranger when I think they're attractive
- drive across the country
- visit Lana at The Gate
- skateboard
- eat delicious food in Italy
- have full awareness of my addictions
- gamble
- naturally wake up (well-rested) before 9am
- get acupuncture
- lead a dance class
- travel with Phoebe to another country again
- put together an organized photo album of my photos from Cuba
- give up small talk
- feel totally happy and comfortable with my body
- throw a grandiose dinner party
- run in a race
- eat a meal in John's renovated kitchen (in the 3rd Street house)
- sort through and deal with my past
- finish writing a paper before the day it is due
- see Nino graduate from high school
- learn how to use a darkroom to develop my own photographs
- earn a one-year chip
- support myself financially
- milk a cow
- find my soulmate
- read Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia
- take an African dance class
- talk to Susie Bright
- live to see a cure developed for AIDS
This list will always be growing, so check it out again soon. Do you have your own similar list? Do you have some great ideas of things I can add to my list? Let me know.
I will also be checking things off my list as I go out and do them. I'll be sure to tell you all about it on my list of new experiences.
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