100 things
A few years ago, I wrote a list of 100 things I want to do before I die. A year ago, I looked back over that list and realized how many things I had accomplished and how much I still wanted to do.
Lately I’ve done a lot of new things: moved to a new state, started a legitimate full-time job, fell in love. So when I found that old list again, I read over it again and again and thought about a lot of things on it.
Being me, I put a variety of things on the list: some silly (kiss someone in an exotic location), some serious (see an illness like cancer or Alzheimer’s get cured) and some just plain random (fill a room will balloons). There’s still a ton I want to do (go to Africa, Asia and Latin America, have a real Christmas tree, kiss someone under mistletoe, go to a drive-in movie theater), but I really have accomplished and witnessed a lot.
I got my work published in a book (http://www.amazon.com/Gives-Me-Hope-Inspiring-Bite-Sized/dp/156975828X). Read the 7th Harry Potter book. Lived abroad. Saw a minority become president. Got a tattoo. Danced in a fountain. Divulged my biggest secret. Said goodbye to the Kia Sportage. And so on.
I guess my point is that we accomplish things when we’re not looking. I never realized how many things on that list I was going out and doing until I had forgotten the list and rediscovered it.
