What do you dream of doing?

I was going through a bunch of old journals and writings and came across this list. It was a list I first started back in 1998 (or so). This is a list of all the things I wanted to do before I died. Reading through it was fun! It was interesting to see what things I have done since then (those are the red italicized items) and to see how many of them were still things I wanted to do - all of them! I didn't cross any of them off.

Things I want to do:

Trips: (It would have been simpler to list where I didn't want to go...)

1. Ireland/Scotland
2. Aruba
3. Caribbean (St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, St.Lucia, etc.)
4. All over Europe (England, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden,)
5. East Coast (North/South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida)
6. Africa (Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, etc.)
7. Alaska/Hawaii
8. Northeast (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C.)
9. South (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia)
10. Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada)
11. West (California, Oregon, Washington)
12. South America (Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela)
13. Australia/New Zealand/Fiji
14. India/Sri Lanka/Nepal
15. Jordan/Syria/Israel/Lebanon
16. Easter Island
17. Washington D.C. (again, for longer with Dad)
18. Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland/Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan)
19. Greenland
20. Central America (Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras)

Other stuff:

Skydive
Move away from Minnesota
Get my bachelor’s degree
Fly a plane
Take a road trip
Learn to carve
Give up pop for 1 year or longer
Swim with dolphins
Go on mission/servant trip
Learn sign language
Get my master’s degree
Scubadive
Live on an island
Find a partner & build a life together
Live in the mountains
Get another tattoo
Go parasailing
Own a bookstore
Write more books
Go hang gliding
Go to a circus
Get a cat
Get a dog
Go whitewater rafting again
Do a ride-a-long with a cop
Be a foster mother
Get my doctorate
Do a walk for diabetes or cancer
Get my own apartment, no roommates
See a Broadway play
Go see the Ellen Degeneres show
Build my dream house complete with personal library
Ride an elephant
Heal/Feel whole
Learn to ride a bike
Not be so shy
Learn more about Islam
Learn more about Buddhism
Have my own washer & dryer
Learn more about Hinduism
Learn more about Judaism
Get poem(s) published
See a dolphin
Volunteer at a hospital
Climb a mountain (a (very) small one)
Go snorkeling
Own a house
Send Dad on a fly-in fishing trip
Donate to Locks of Love
Fool my mom on April Fools
Have a double-headed shower
Be kind
Do something for someone every day for a month
Visit an Irish pub
Get a new car
Have a walk-in closet
Go to a horse race
Help someone’s dream come true
Invent something
Go to FAO Schwartz
Learn to juggle
Make a home of my own
Live in Bellingham, WA
Like & accept myself
Learn to play guitar
Go to massage school
Write & publish a book
Work as a therapist
Be inspiring
Slow dance in the rain
Hold a million dollars
Adopt children
Volunteer at a hospice
Lead a retreat
Present workshops/presentations (on something)
Create a career I love
Love my body
Learn to cry
Learn to accept my hair
Be self-employed
Join the Peace Corp

It will be interesting to look back in another 10 years and see what I can cross off then!