A couple of days, I was chatting with my Mum and my sister Cesca. Cesca was talking about a woman she had met at her bookshop job who had revealed to her that she was dying of cancer and had only a few months to live. I think I would have wanted to crawl into the floor of embarassment, but Cesca simply asked: "How does that feel? Does it change your aspect on life?"
To which the lady responded that it did. It made her cherish every moment with her children and she was spending the last three months with her family and friends, and creating great memories for the ones left behind. I like this because of it's simplicity. There is no massive bucket list to complete, but a wish to be present with the ones she loved. I think that if I knew that I had only 3 months to live, I would travel, but it would be to see people and not things. But I do have a list, of all the things that I still want to see and do. This is not a Bucket List, but simply a list of some cool things I have yet to do with my life. Most of them are connected to travel. It is largely a selfish list of things I want to see, rather than things I want to achieve. I've done a whole bunch of stuff that I wanted to do already, but it's a bit of a neverending cycle. Feel free to tell me things that you want to do and places and things you want to see.
- Ride in a Helicopter
- Hang glide (is that the same thing as Paragliding? If not I want to do both)
- Visit Galapagos Islands (I was so close to going when I was there last)
- See the Kokoda Dragon in Indonesia (this is the coolest thing ever!)
- See the Borneo Orangutans (I would love to volunteer to work with them)
- Learn to Dive (diving in the Great Barrier Reef would be cool)
- Go to India while the Holi Festival is on (the festival of colour)
- See a Bollywood film being made, or watch a Bollywood in India
- Ride on the trans Siberian and trans Mongolian
- Ride on a train in India
- Go to the Edinburgh Festival
- Ride an Elephant
- Learn Spanish fluently
- Go to Carnaval in Brazil and see the Brazillian Rainforest
- Go Sailing
- Go to Burning Man Festival in USA
- Write a novel
- Record an alubum
- Experience Weightlessness
- Grow and eat my own vegetables
- Visit Las Vegas (doing this in a couple of months)
- Visit Grand Canyon (ditto to above)
- Visit the Egyptian Pyramids
- Do an African Safari
- See the northern lights
- Have a big road trip around New Zealand
- Have a White Christmas somewhere
- Become fluent in Sign language
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I love lists. Things I've already done from your list:
Helicopter ride
Snorkelled Great Barrier reef (is that close enough)
Gone sailing on Hauraki Golf (sat on boat though and left driving to others)
Grown and ate own veges
Have done many road trips to places around NZ, travelling to Kai Iwi Lakes soon for the next trip - do the mini trips count?
Things I would add:
Visit Baskinta in the Lebanon
Live in another country for at least 6mths as an adult (did this as a kid already)
Write a book
Travel everywhere on my travel list (very long, will not write out here)
Visit Antartica
Probably heaps more but that list would take over your post.
Write a book (well a novel) was already on my list.
I have done mini road trips around NZ, but i was meaning at least 3 months at one time and preferably more.
The travel everywhere on my travel list is also true, but top of my list is:
Iceland, Mongolia, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, central America, Jamaica, Tanzania and Rwanda, Borneo, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Alaska, Scandinavia.
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