What do you desperately want to do before you die (and know you will never do)

[AngryAmish]

Play at Augusta.

[RedCloud]

1. Live forever.

[HopeHoops]

2. Have a 3-some while skydiving nude and landing on the stage of the Republican convention.

Actually, I really don't want to do that - but SOMEBODY should!

[hifiguy]

3. Bum around the Pacific rim for a year

Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. Never gonna happen if I live to be 200.

[av8rdave]

50. I'm bumming around part of it next month, but it's for work

Japan, Guam and Palau. Should be interesting.

[pitohui]

55. why not???

australian kids do it all the time on next to nothing, there's a great backpacker's network, several of my friends have done it -- one guy did it for 3 years (included china) on money he scammed teaching english (he has no qualifications to teach english other than he speaks english, that was in china) and playing 1/2 no limit poker, so you know there's a cheap workaround!

the cost is not anything to hold you back, as for health care, a couple of my friends have taken advantage of the good cheap health care in thailand, so if health is the reason you're holding back, i would still urge you to look into it

i have visited the most expensive of those countries already, japan and australia, pretty much on coins scooped out of the sofa and waiting for giveaways on airfare

some dreams are in fact achievable, never say never!!!

you don't have to disappear for a year if your job won't give a sabbatical, look out for the cheap airfares or the credit cards giving away miles, get a ticket, visit for a week or two, then next year do it all over again, even if you don't do the whole trip in one chewy chunk, eventually you see a lot of different countries that way

[hifiguy]

59. I am almost 55 and cannot and will not live out of a backpack

like a 20 year old Aussie kid. I am way too old for that. :) And I just lost half my hours and pay at my current job. If I lose the rest I have enough money to survive for about four months, and then the game is over. And after being unemployed for 3 1/2 of the last 5 1/2 years, it is entirely possible I will never work again.

If I were 30, I'd probably try to go get a job teaching ESL in Korea or Vietnam - I once knew a guy who did that for a few years after he got out of the Air Force; in fact, that's how he met his wife. But that ship sailed at least a couple of decades ago. And what would I do with my cat, who has saved my sanity for the last years?

[Deep13]

4. I want to crush my enemies, see them driven before me and hear the lamentation of the women. nt

[dawg]

6. Here you go!

http://www.civilization5.com/

[Deep13]

11. Huh. Looks like a computer game.

How am I going to take over the world if I waste my time playing computer games? Or maybe that's your play. Pretty sneaky! :7

[ashling]

39. I was talking to an acquaintance at our testing center

today. I have been sick and an no teaching this summer, so she asked me how I was doing.

I told her that I was recovering rapidly from the surgery and would be teaching again in the fall.

She replied "no weapon formed against you shall prosper." (Isaiah 54:17) It was kind of creepy.

[RobinA]

45. I Kinda Like It

Had this happen to me yesterday at work when somebody tried to burn me and ended up getting burned worse by her own words. I didn't have to do a thing. Don't mess with my karma!

[pitohui]

56. kinda creepy? t hat's majorly creepy

that sounds like she thinks you were felled by witchcraft!

[TK421]

40. Do you want to live forever?

[dawg]

5. Here you go!

http://adventure-crossing.com/

[suninvited]

7. Hike the Appalachian trail

at least half of it.

[RedCloud]

8. Carfeul. It has a teleportation segment to shoot you over to Buenos Aires.

[graywarrior]

20. Hiking it is only half the battle

[ccinamon]

9. go to Egypt to see the Cairo Museum,

the pyramids and all of the other wonderful ancient Egyptian architecture....sigh.

[Tikki]

10. Go to Australia to see a genuine Aussie Rules Football game...

GO HAWKS

My only hope is that there will be another
exhibition game, here in the US, before I move on...


Tikki p.s...the USFooty (amateurs) teams play hard and it is fun watching.

GO DRAGONS

[geardaddy]

14. Aussie drools football

Rugby Union is the real shit.

[Tikki]

16. Hey, HI....I like to watch rugby games, also.

:hi:


Tikki

[geardaddy]

24. HI

:hi:

Actually, I haven't seen many Aussie Rules games, so I'd like to learn more, but don't get me started on Rugby League.

The Rugby World Cup is coming up in a month or so!

[Tikki]

26. If you can get ESPN3 on your computer...

then look for Aussie Rules Football games under the 'upcoming' tab...

Their weekends start before ours :shrug:...but if you can't see a game at a decent hour...
then they show a few games under the 'replay' tab.

I love Rugby...it is amazing...


Tikki

[geardaddy]

48. Thanks!

I'll give that a shot! :hi:

[Islandlife]

12. Travel, travel, travel, but...

As the reality sets in, I am more concerned about leaving my family in the best financial condition as possible. I won't travel because it now seems pointless and selfish. I'm happy just being around my family. That's all that really matters to me.

[MichiganVote]

15. Yup. Us too. Feel we have to leave something useful for them.

[pitohui]

57. the more money you leave behind, the more your family will be glad you're dead

is that the legacy you want to make of your life? people celebrating because you died and they can cash in?

live your dream too, what makes you feel that you don't deserve to have even a tiny piece of your dream? travel is one of the cheapest things you can do for yourself, when you consider the value of what you get for your dollar

[mysuzuki2]

13. have sex with a woman again

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Make it to all the continents. Been to North and South America and Europe. Planning on going to

Africa next.

[pink-o]

18. Buy a gorgeous Pied a Terre in Rome or Paris

Then live life as if I'm French or Italian. But since I can't pull millions from my a$$, I guess I'll be staying in my tiny SF rental.(NOT moving to the 'burbs. I'm a neurotic City Girl!)

[InvisibleTouch]

19. I haven't given up on anything.

There are things I desperately want to do before I die. Some of them are unlikely to happen. Unlikely, but never impossible. I won't give up on any of them.

[pitohui]

58. good for you, at last a positive post!

i was getting a bit depressed, some of these posts, there are no good reasons why the person couldn't do these things

i may travel on nothing but a smile and some credit card hustles, but it beats just giving up and saying oh dreams are for other people on teevee, i don't deserve to have my dreams!

[graywarrior]

21. Get a book published

[Phentex]

22. Oh? So now you want to create a book that never dies?!...

Have mercy!

}(

[graywarrior]

23. Ah, thank you for the title of the book!

[LiberalEsto]

32. Same here nt

[sarge43]

25. Pilot an ultra-light. n/t

[Bake]

27. Play the Opry

:hi:

Bake

[rbnyc]

28. Have one more child.

But I am blessed, and I do feel that one biological child is truly enough.

My son is wonderful and the best part of my life. I don't want to sound ungrateful at all. But I loved being pregnant and I think G would be an awesome big brother.

[femmocrat]

29. Read all the books on my list.

So many books, so little time.

[Ohio Joe]

30. Go into space - nt

[blueamy66]

31. cruise around the world

and make love to Steve Perry

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. never mind ... the question is about doing something

not knowing something. I misunderstood. mea culpa.

[applegrove]

34. Own a cottage type house with a big backyard garden.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. Sing with the Metropolitan Opera.

I think I'd like to do Turandot.

It's not gonna happen. :(

[Mopar151]

36. 200 mph at Bonneville n/t

[OhioBlue]

37. Be a true partner in a loving and committed relationship

the kind where you respect each other and bring out the best in the other. where you have life goals and help each other to reach them. I've settled. my biological clock was ticking. the baby daddy is a good person.. but I feel like his mother. We will probably never marry.. but probably never marry anyone else as we're committed to making the best life that we can for our son. I'll continue to make the best of it and always look at my blessings.. (he is a decent provider, a nice guy, a good dad and never abusive) but.. at times, I do long for that unique relationship where you actually become a true partner in life.

[SoDesuKa]

38. Ride the Cyclone at Coney Island

This has been on my to-do list for many years, but it's getting more and more unlikely. It doesn't look like fun to me, it looks terrifying. As time goes by, I get less willing to do things just to overcome my fear of doing them.



Not planning to ride it this year either.

[cherokeeprogressive]

41. Ménage à trois. Unfortunately, all I can manage is a Ménage à moi. n/t

[Bake]

47. +100

Excellent! Bonus points for the nice play on words!

:hi:

Bake

[Forkboy]

42. Go to Mars.

[DFW]

43. Lern to speak fluent Cantonese

And learn to play a 5 string banjo like Earl Scruggs

[hobbit709]

44. go home again.

[GoCubsGo]

46. See a space shuttle launch.

Visit Machu Pichu, the South Pole, the Galapagos Islands and a whole bunch of other places.
Take a mule ride down the Grand Canyon
Watch the Cubs win a World Series

[Hassin Bin Sober]

49. retire

[guitar man]

51. I want to

I would like to own and operate in my own studio:

One of these:




and a couple of these:





sigh....

[WolverineDG]

52. Travel in space

and walk on the moon.

dg

[Earth Bound Misfit]

53. Visit chimpy in prison.

[pitohui]

54. fly into another solar system

no one will do that before i die, well, no one living, maybe the voyager craft or another bit of space metal will or has done it