What do you HAVE to do before you die?

[Sharon]

I thought this would be an interesting topic to start... what is the something you really want to do before you die - what's keeping you from doing it and when do you plan on doing that something?

[Absinthe]

I actually have a long list of things I want to do before I die. A lot of them have to do with traveling or accomplishing goals. For example, one of my goals was to go to Europe. I was able to do that this past summer, but the accomplishment of that goal spurred a bunch of other things I want to do, like spend an entire day perusing the shelves of Waterstone's Bookstore in London (It's one of the largest in the world, afterall).

Some other things include seeing all 100 films on AFI's "100 Most Inspiring Films" list. I've seen about 25 of them so far. The only thing that may keep me from completing it is the difficulty I may have finding copies of some of the more obscure films - such as an old silent film from the 1920's.

A little snippet of my list:

- Fall in Love
- Have a book published
- Go on a Missions trip to a 3rd world country
- Get a tattoo
- Read every book on my list of "Books to Read" (there are about 400 on the list)
- Open a bookstore/cafe
- Get my degree in Nursing and pass my Registration exams
- Buy and drive the car of my dreams
- Read the Bible cover to cover
- Learn to play my guitar
- Learn to play the piano
- Adopt a child
- Travel to EVERY country in Europe (I've been to 4)
- Get Married
- Make amends with my father


.....As I said, there are a lot of things I want to do before I die. That is just a teeny tiny portion of my list. Things that have kept me from doing the things on it range from lack of money to just not being at the right point in my life at the moment. I think we kind of have to have things we aim for, things we aspire to, in order for life to have a little bit more meaning.

[Laura]

to love and to be loved.

well ... I guess I don't HAVE to do anything but I'd like to see Tori Amos live at least once and get some of my poetry published would be nice as well. I don't know what else.

[indridcold]

I can't die.

[thecrazybeautiful]

Hmm, good question, this'll be fun

I want to:

1. Learn guitar (I'm in the process of that now)
2. Learn piano
3. Live in San Diego
4. Visit New Zealand
5. Go on a cruise
6. Make a cd
7. Write a book (poetry, most likely)
8. Own a coffee shop (Ok, maybe not really, but it's a cool idea)
9. Fall in love (again)
10. Meet back up with Jonathan somewhere down the road in our lives
11. Go to a Hanson concert
12. Get a tattoo

There's probably more things I wanna do, but that's all that comes to mind now. I guess what's holding me back from doing a lot of that stuff is my age, well, and my parents not letting me do some of that...

[Cullen]

Now i got about halfway through absinthe's first post and realized that my list is aswell way to long to write now. There are reasons i can and cant do some of the things and there are some that dont have explainations, but the one thing i HAVE to do before i die is....Live...