In no particular order, Here is a (growing list of things i'd like to do do before i die). Its subject to (and will) grow over time but it will not shrink:
- Go Skydiving, Parasailing, Bungee Jumping, Hot Air Ballooning
- Go Scuba Diving in Turkey
- Go to a Cocktail Party where people are wearing tuxedo's and evening attire
- Sail down the Nile River and sleep on the banks
- Go underwater in a submarine
- Get my Pilot's license and fly across the country
- Ride in a helicopter
- Buy/fix up and outfit a Landrover Defender 110 and go on a a long safari across a country (a la Camel Trophy) with my father and brother
- Speak Fluently:
- Arabic, Swahili, Urdu, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and French
- Dive in the Great Barrier Reef
- Drive a motorcycle across Australia
- Work for/with an NGO in a Palestine/Afghani refugee camp
- Work with an NGO towards ending international Houselessness
- Work with Teach for America, Habitat for Humanity, or Americorp to teach in an underprivileged community in the U.S.
- Buy D-SLR and become a travel photographer
- Learn how to Sail and sail between countries
- Play chess often, have a chess set on my coffee table
- Build my own house at some point. It must be zero-waste
- Live in France
- Rock Climb regularly
- Travel to both poles
- Learn how to completely repair an old Landrover
- Learn how to drive stick
- Become a travel writer for a travel book
- Learn Sitar, Tabla, and acoustic guitar
- Work with an NGO in India (preferably in Kutch)
- See all the Old and New Wonders of the World
- Run for a public office (preferably in publicad
- Work for/with U.N.
- Spend multiple nights in a large yacht
- Learn how to knit
- Achieve the highest dive certification i can
- Get a tattoo
- Learn how to shave with a straight blade
- Be a teacher
- Work in/own a coffeeshop with a live jazz band, open mic night, and community library
- Run multiple marathons
- Swim with sharks...
- Dont get eaten during said dive
- Bike from Vancouver to South America along the coast
- do same trip on motorcycle?
- See the Olympics
- WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) in South America and India
- Live in India, Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco, the East Coast
- Learn how to develop my own photos
- Become a journalist (international)
- Get Published
- Write a book of some sort
- Get into a fist fight for a good reason.
- figure out what a good reason to get into a fist fight is
- Visit every state in the U.S.
- Ride the rails in the U.S.
- Hitchhike across a state or two
- Go to an Ice bar or Ice Hotel
- Learn how to Bartend
- Have a library room in my house with a ladder on wheels, big leather chairs & sofas, fumidor for cigars, brandy shelf and wine rack
- Collect and be educated on wine
- have wine cave
- Grow old with life long friends
- Be an old and Stylish!
- Have children (either by the old fashion way or adoption)
- adopt a child
- Have my parents live with/near me. Take care of them
- buy/build my parents a house- make sure they are always comfortable
- Be at least Half the father to my children that my father is to me
- Live near/with Assad. Roomates!!!
- Be a vegetarian for at least a year
- Be an amazing cook! (with my own cookbook)
- Own a nice watch, pass it on to my children
- Read and Finish all Abrahamic religious texts. (Qur'an, Bible, Torah)
- Pray 5 times a day
- Go to Chiappas, learn from/live/create change/knowledge share with the Zapatistas
- Write the "Social Justice Cookbook"
- Do interfaith organizing
- Have a bespoke suit/shoes
- See Iguazu Falls
- camping/backpacking trip
- Invest in Stock Market
- Go spelunking
- Scuba in Belize
- Drive on the Autobahn
- Watch an opera in Italy
- Ride the Orient Express
- Visit an uninhabited island
- Swim in all 5 oceans
- Take parents on Vacation
- Ride "Crime and Punishment" and finish it!
- Go festival hoping in Mongolia and Tibet
- Summit mountain in Himalayas
- Celibrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Carneval in Brazil!
- Run Bay to Breakers with friends and family :)
- Achieve everything on this list