I was going to start this as twenty things I wanted to do before I was twenty. Then, realizing that I'm twenty in less than a year, decided that maybe I'd try for a list of things that I'd do before I was thirty. Ideally, I wanted a list of thirty things, but as I thought about it, there is so much that I want to do before then. Here are some of the things that I most want to accomplish or experience in the next eleven years:
- Go sky diving.
- Swim with sharks.
- Spend a summer working in Kenya at a school or orphanage.
- Adopt a child.
- Travel to Israel, Jordan, Afghanistan, and Egypt.
- Go surfing.
- Memorize 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'
- Get down to the ten item wardrobe (or at least the essentials wardrobe).
- Learn how to make at least one nice dinner.
- Get off the beaten trail. Literally. A hike would do that perfectly.
- Stop being scared of public speaking.
- Make art that protests shark finning.
- Throw a surprise party for someone I love.
- Plan someone’s wedding or baby shower.
- Live in my own house/apartment and decorate it.
- Learn how to budget everything.
- Get really, really good at thrift shopping.
- Write a novel.
- Build something, like a bookshelf, on my own.
- Fill a room with books and read them all.
- Host some sort of Bible study at my own apartment.
- Keep a bullet journal.
- Go back to The Louvre (and spend more than two hours there).
- Love everyone with an open heart (no matter how hard it seems to be).
- Learn how to do taxes.
- Return back to my Honours French days and relearn French (but, like, better this time).
- Learn how to fix my computer when it breaks down.
- Learn how to change a tire.
- Design a dress that actually gets physically created.
- Drive route 66.
- Be part of the Big Sister/ Big Brother program or something equivalent.
- Make art that I put in the apartment or house that I own.
- Keep journals... why not document my life?.
- Learn how to barbecue.
- Keep a cactus 'garden' (alive this time).
- Learn how to drive stick shift.
- Read the Bible cover to cover.
- Drink warm lemon water in the morning.
- Have a movie marathon (like, one where I don’t fall asleep).
- Have a party where everyone gets dressed up... like a real dinner party.
- Learn another instrument.
- Buy a dog (and name it Pericles).
- More than anything, though, I want to be myself, be happy, and love others.
