Design my Dream Life: To Do Before I Die
3:55 PMThis list has been something that I kind of always had in my mind, but finally decided to write up. I plan to continue to return to this list and update it as my life progresses. Hopefully, I'll be able to blog about most (if not all) of these things, so I can link back to everything!
Travel
- Visit all 7 continents (6/7, track my travel progress here)
- Backpack in Europe
- Visit every country in the European Union (4/28)
- See the New 7 Wonders of the World
Pyramids of Giza (honorary)ColosseumGreat Wall of China- Taj Mahal
- Machu Picchu
- Chichen Itza
- Petra
- Christ the Redeemer
- Visit Greece and fangirl over all the mythology-related things
- See the windmills in the Netherlands
- Eat chocolate in Belgium
- Pay for an overseas vacation on my own
- Visit Tibet
- Go see the Harry Potter stuff in England
- See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Visit the Amazon- Go see the Hokkaido lavender fields
- See the cherry blossoms in Japan
- Visit Korea and eat yummy food
- Eat yummy food in Japan
- Try street food in every country I visit (purple markers are places where I have eaten street food: track my progress here)
- Get paid to travel
- road trip across the US
- Explore Pompeii
- Live in another country (aka not the US, Canada, or China) for a few months
Creative
- Go out sketching at least once every two months
- Paint a painting every year
Create a travel journal(Made one on Ecuador!)- Send 20 hand-painted cards
- Learn to throw on a pottery wheel
- Learn to play a song on an instrument even though I'm musically challenged
- Crochet a pixel blanket
- Sell a painting
- Open an Etsy shop
- Make a Youtube channel
- Write and illustrate a children's book
- Design and code an app
- Redesign this blog and make it responsive
- Get my artwork published or in a gallery
- Create my own t-shirt design
- Learn calligraphy
Be a Good Person
- Do a Pay-It-Forward at a coffee shop
- Volunteer for a good cause
- Volunteer at a pet shelter
- Donate $1000+ for an important cause
- Knit for charity
Learn New Things
- Take a self-defense class
- Learn to speak a new (fourth!) language
- Learn to drive
- Take a ballroom dancing class
- Take a martial arts class
- Graduate from MIT (without pulling any more all nighters please)
- Take a bartending class
- Learn to quilt (and then make one)
- Take a cooking class
- Take a baking class
Other
- Dance in the rain with someone
- Adopt a pet that can snuggle (aka not a fish)
- Swim in an infinity pool
- Read a book every month (and blog about it)
- Get an elephant massage
- Go to a concert
- See a musical and pay for the ticket myself
- Go ziplining
- Get up to see the sunrise
- See the Northern Lights, bonus if I photograph and paint it!
- Have a plant without killing it (I have now managed to kill both a cactus and a succulent)
- Grow a food that I can eat
- Enjoy a wine tasting
- Fold 1000 cranes for grandma and bring it to her grave
- Be an extra in a movie
- Go to ComicCon
- Go to BeautyCon
- Meet someone famous
- Eat a ridiculously expensive dessert (Like the 1000 dollar ice cream sundae in Vegas)
Go apple picking (I've never been!)read about my experience here- Build a blanket fort with someone I care about
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Attend/be a part of a wedding of someone I care about
- Teach someone a skill
- Take my parents out for a nice dinner
- Get a penpal
So what's on your long term to do list?
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