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My "Before I die" list is located at http://beforeidie-delc.blogspot.com/

~ Things to do before you die :

1. 100 push ups challenge
2. Accept yourself for who you are.
3. Actually learn to ride horse.
4. Adopt a Child
5. Ask for a raise.
6. Ask someone to dance with you
7. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.
8. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, and the U.S. Open.
9. Bake cookies and cakes with your mother
10. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
11. Be an extra in a film.
12. Be Happy, because you’ve accomplished at least one thing or more in your life. :)
13. Be selfish, do a photo shoot of you.
14. Be someone's mentor.
15. Become a vegetarian for at least 5 years.
16. Break someone’s heart.
17. Build an igloo
18. Buy a camcorder to record special moments of your life
19. Buy a car and learn to drive
20. Buy a notebook
21. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
22. Buy a world ticket and have a world vista to travel the world for six months.
23. Buy an SLD camera and take great photos of anything/something/anyone/etc.
24. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
25. Catch sunset over Uluru (Ayres Rock), Northern Territories, Australia
26. Change a baby’s nappy
27. Climb a mountain
28. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa
29. Communicate with a person that doesn’t speak your language.
30. Complete a 1000 piece jigsaw
31. Complete everything on your list before you die.
32. Create your Family Tree.
33. Create your own web site.
34. Cross a country on a bicycle. A bicycle tour takes some planning, but it beats being separated from a country though a passenger-side window.
35. Cross a country using only public transportation. See a country the way most of its people do: from the window of a bus, train, or ferry.
36. Cross South America spending only 10$ a day.
37. Crowd surf
38. Dance crazily in Oxford Street and Piccadilly pretending not to care about what people say.
39. Dance Tango in Argentina.
40. Dance with a stranger in a foreign country
41. Develop a talent for photography
42. Dive with sharks
43. Do more volunteer/charity work
44. Don’t eat anything for 3 days
45. Don’t talk for the whole day.
46. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
47. Drive a convertible
48. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
49. Drive a husky sled
50. Drive across America from coast to coast.
51. Drive along Route 66, USA
52. Drive the Autobahn.
53. Dye your hair
54. Eat caviar
55. Eat fried tomatoes. Wtf?
56. Eat sushi
57. Educate a child
58. Experience weightlessness.
59. Explore Antarctica
60. Explore the Galapagos Islands
61. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.
62. Fart in a crowded space.
63. Find a job you love.
64. Fish for blue marlin
65. Fly in a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, Colorado, USA
66. Fly in a hot air balloon
67. Fly over a volcano
68. Forgive your parents.
69. Gallop a horse along a beach
70. Get a degree
71. Get a new wardrobe
72. Get married (hopefully)
73. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
74. Get to know you parents
75. Get to know your neighbours.
76. Get your first job at the age of 16
77. Give to a charity -- anonymously.
78. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
79. Go and see a cat walk in one of this three places: Paris, London or Rio de Janeiro
80. Go camping
81. Go canoeing
82. Go fishing with someone in your family
83. Go in a drive-in cinema
84. Go inside a pyramid
85. Go on a cruise
86. Go on a trip around Europe with your car.
87. Go on safari
88. Go paintball.
89. Go paragliding
90. Go polar bear watching
91. Go sky diving
92. Go To A Film Premiere
93. Go to a major league baseball stadium to see a game.
94. Go to Disney World
95. Go to Italy on holiday with the love of your life.
96. Go to party you weren’t invited to.
97. Go to University
98. Go to videogame conventions and other anime conventions
99. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
100. Go whale-watching
101. Go white water rafting
102. Go windsurfing
103. Grow a garden.
104. Grow your hair until is down to your waist
105. Grow your own crop
106. Have a bath in the bathtub with bath soaps, candles, petals... milk? The whole work…
107. Have a broken heart a lot longer than when you were in love.
108. Have a laughing fit
109. Have a painting of yourself
110. Have a pet.
111. Have a snow fight
112. Have your portrait painted.
113. Helicopter ride
114. Help and animal give birth
115. Help my parents and family
116. Hop Aboard Britain's Fastest Rollercoaster – Rita
117. Hug a tree
118. Hug a whale
119. Improve playing piano and guitar
120. Kiss in the rain
121. Learn a martial art
122. Learn how to take a compliment.
123. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
124. Learn Photoshop
125. Learn sign language
126. Learn to cook (not just eggs, noodles and spam)
127. Learn to juggle with three balls.
128. Learn to live by myself
129. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
130. Learn to properly swim
131. Learn to rollerblade.
132. Learn to ski or snowboard
133. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
134. Learn to Surf
135. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
136. Lie on a beach on the island of La Digue as the world floats by
137. Live in Italy for some time.
138. Live one day of your life like a typical Indian.
139. Look at the sky at night with a huge telescope
140. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.
141. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
142. Make a mosaic
143. Make love on a forest floor.
144. Make love on the kitchen floor.
145. Make my family proud of me
146. Make someone cry (a happy cry)
147. Make sure I tell my friends and family how much I love them so that when I DO die... they won't wonder and I'll be at peace.
148. Make your blog famous (1.000+ followers)
149. Make your own mini movie
150. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
151. Meet a complete stranger and have a great conversation
152. Milk a cow
153. Name a star after you, even if it’s pretend.
154. Own a room with a view.
155. Perform onstage
156. Photograph an endangered species. Aside from an image you can keep for a lifetime, it will remind you, and others, how fragile life can be.
157. Plant a tree.
158. Play a game for more than 5 hours.
159. Play in the mud
160. Play in the rain
161. Publish an article about your travels. Part of travelling is sharing your experiences with others. Plus, getting published might be easier than you think.
162. Publish your book
163. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
164. Read the entire Bible
165. Receive flowers from someone
166. Reunion with least one of your school classmates again.
167. Ride a bicycle around Rome
168. Ride a camel into the desert.
169. Ride a camel to the Pyramids, Egypt
170. Ride a motorbike on the open road
171. Ride the Rocky Mountaineer train, Canada
172. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
173. Run a marathon.
174. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
175. Save somebody’s life.
176. Scream anything from the top of the Eiffel tower
177. Scuba dive on Great Barrier Reef, Australia
178. See a lunar eclipse.
179. See elephants in the wild
180. See orang-utans in Borneo
181. See tigers in the wild
182. Sell your own art work
183. Send a message in a bottle.
184. Set foot on each of the seven continents. Antarctica might be a tough one, but once you’ve reached all seven you can truly call yourself a world traveller.
185. Shoot with a gun
186. Shower in a waterfall.
187. Sing a great song in front of an audience.
188. Skydive.
189. Sleep under the stars.
190. Sleep with no worries
191. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
192. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
193. Spend at least 3 months in Africa helping a charity.
194. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
195. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
196. Start a food fight
197. Start a paint fight
198. Start your own business
199. Stay awake all night to see the sun waking up
200. Stay in bed the whole day long
201. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
202. Swim with dolphins
203. Take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
204. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
205. Take the Orient Express from Venice to London
206. Talk with an accent the whole day.
207. Teach English in a foreign country. Sure, it’s a way to fund your travels, but also the experience of a lifetime.
208. Teach someone illiterate to read.
209. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
210. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
211. Touch a sheep
212. Touch an Iceberg
213. Travel into space
214. Trek through a rainforest
215. Visit a “real” blues bar in Chicago. What better way to leave music’s commercialism behind and find the soul of the blues?
216. Visit Alaska
217. Visit all the states of my country and get involved in at least one traditional activity.
218. Visit Austria
219. Visit Copacabana, and buy an apartment in Rio
220. Visit every capital city in Europe. The crowded continent is full of beautiful architecture and perse cultures.
221. Visit Japan
222. Visit Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
223. Visit New York.
224. Visit Paris
225. Visit places where your ancestors lived.
226. Visit Switzerland
227. Visit Thailand
228. Visit the castle they used in the Harry Potter movies
229. Visit the great wall of China
230. Visit the Holy Land.
231. Visit The Iguassu Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina
232. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
233. Visit the tower of Pisa and go all the way up to the top.
234. Visit Walt Disney World, Florida, USA
235. Walk on the Golden Gate Bridge
236. Walk the Great Wall of China
237. Walk the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, Peru
238. Watch a play at the globe theatre
239. Watch an orchestral performance in Vienna.
240. Watch mountain gorillas
241. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
242. Win the lottery at least a little price
243. Write a book about your mother
244. Write a fan letter to your all-time favourite hero or heroine.
245. Write your will.


~ Crazy things to do before you die:

246. Bathe with water from freezing at temperatures below zero morning.
247. Buy a parrot and teach it how to talk.
248. Correspond with a prisoner with an outsider, or someone unknown. Why? Just because.
249. Cross a long bridge on foot.
250. Give your name to someone you just know and tell you that your name as you always wanted to call.
251. Don’t listen or watch television and radio for a month
252. Dress up like Superman/Wonder woman (with cape) and do your grocery shopping.
253. Eat something you consider disgusting.
254. Give away something very dear.
255. Invent and tell a good joke is better.
256. Inventing a dish, and serve a perfect dinner occupancy.
257. Make a radical change in your appearance.
258. Obsessively seek to recover it, an old friend who disappeared years ago.
259. On a plane, pretend to talk on the phone about how bad the weather is where you are.
260. Pretend to be a beggar and beg.
261. Read a novel in the country where the story happens. Rayuela in Paris is the best option.
262. See how long you can shake someone's hand for (without them realizing what you are doing).
263. Sing as loud as you can inside your car, and stop when someone is staring at you.
264. Sleep in the street.
265. Spend a day without seeing, or with eyes closed, or unconscious in a hospital bed.
266. Stop talking for 3 days.
267. Throw something (eg a TV) by the window.
268. Walk until you can no longer more.
269. Wear clothes of the opposite sex and go to the streets.
270. Eat pet food of any sort.
271. Ride a cow
272. Smell a shoe

~ Conquering fears your fears before you die.

273. Heights – Bungee jumping.
274. Nakedness – Go to a nude beach.
275. Snakes – Touch and play with one.
276. Spiders – Hold a tarantula in your hands.
277. Drunken people – Help a drunken person.