I went back and dug up the list I'd posted on MySpace a few years back. Early 2007, in fact! I do these check-ins with myself periodically, but 2007 was the last time I wrote it down in a list.
The ones I'm looking to get to this year are in blue.
§ Fly a plane. (Do it again.)
§ Go skydiving.
§ Buy a motorcycle. (And I suppose get the license, too.)
§ Go to Disneyland. (though I want to go again! Went again!)
§ Throw a party.
§ Write a favorite poem in calligraphy.
§ Learn a language or two to fluency.
§ Get a professional massage.
§ Go horseback riding. (Particularly on the beach, since I haven't done that yet.)
§ Have something published.
§ See a play on Broadway (And it was fantastic!)
§ Run in a race. (There's a 10k in San Francisco in May I'm thinking about running.)
§ Visit a castle.
§ Visit a haunted house.
§ Sleep in a penthouse. (With the lowercase p, not the uppercase one.) (Did this in L.A. with a view of the Hollywood sign out the window. It was that awesome, yes.)
§ Climb El Capitan.
§ Hike Half-Dome.
§ Own an original book, pre-1800.
§ Buy something designer, just to say I have.
§ Paint.
§ Go on a roadtrip with no predetermined destination.
§ Get a passport.
§ Graduate from college.
§ Get a graduate degree.
§ Learn to play a particular piece completely on either the piano or violin.
§ Have a website.
§ Create sustainable alternate income streams.
§ Go backpacking through Europe.
§ Visit every continent.
§ Go snowboarding.
§ Have a family, somehow, someway -- not even necessarily the traditional way.
§ Meet Neil Gaiman.
§ SCUBA dive.
§ Go camping in Yosemite. In a tent. And not get eaten by a bear.
§ Buy a plane ticket somewhere and just go.
§ Work on a movie.
§ Be a part, somehow, of a major stage production.
§ Put together an elaborate costume for Halloween and go to a party.
§ Practice archery.
§ Play soccer and/or ultimate frisbee, even as a pick-up game.
§ Fence. (The kind with swords, not the kind that keeps cows/sheep in.)
Always revising these things. I make them more specific, less specific, more long-term and more short-term, and generally change my priorities. The interesting thing about posting these every couple years is that, when looking back on them, I can see that my priorities really don't change all that much in the interim. It's more that I learn about new and cool things to do, and refine what it was I was looking for when I set a goal in the first place.
Fun thought exercise for an introverted idealist, anyway.
