Monday, June 28, 2010

IF there's one thing I want to share it's this

We all talk about the plans for our lives.... What we're going to do. Not what we do. So before you die, because we all die, you've got to do something with your life. You've got to fall in love or go sailing or take a risk or break a bone. Make every moment memorable. Make a list. I did. Here's 100 things I'm going to do.
  1. Take pictures with strangers at the mall
  2. Make a video to put on youtube
  3. Serenade someone with song
  4. Jump into a pool fully clothed
  5. Dance in the rain
  6. Sing in public
  7. Blow something up (like on explosion Wednesday.... if you understand that reference then you have watched Craig Benzine or WheezyWaiter on youtube, and if so then you're my new favorite person, all 100,000+ of you subscribers.)
  8. Write a song with guitar, bass, and piano parts
  9. Go to New York City
  10. Drive across the country
  11. Go a week without any outside communication
  12. Read every Shakespeare play
  13. Build a fence
  14. Party all night
  15. Give all my money to someone homeless
  16. Go on a mission trip
  17. Run through a field/skip through flowers
  18. Go to Germany
  19. Adopt a kid
  20. Play Wonderwall by Oasis in the streets of Dublin
  21. Kiss an Irish man
  22. Graduate
  23. Get a job
  24. Quit dramatically
  25. See Sam again
  26. Go to Mexico
  27. Let someone go
  28. Get someone back
  29. Save a life
  30. Write a book
  31. Get that book published
  32. Read the entire bible
  33. Go sky diving
  34. Change someone's life
  35. Write a letter to someone special
  36. Mail it
  37. Break a lamp
  38. Be a God parent
  39. Be an LIT at YMCA camp high harbour
  40. Get married
  41. Learn Spanish
  42. Learn Italian
  43. Get lost
  44. Stay lost
  45. Make a garden
  46. Break a heart
  47. Play in the snow
  48. Work in a coffee shop
  49. Go to Disney World
  50. Go to England
  51. Fall in love
  52. Go to Vegas
  53. Gamble
  54. Get myself found
  55. Voulenteer at a hospital
  56. Get my heart broken
  57. Punch someone out
  58. Try out for a roll in a movie
  59. Play someone a song on three instruments
  60. Learn to dance
  61. Go to Chicago
  62. Move away
  63. Take a spontaneous vacation
  64. Learn to knit
  65. Buy a boat
  66. Go to a Sufjan Stevens concert
  67. Go to prom
  68. Have a co ed party
  69. Make an invention
  70. Climb a tree
  71. Swim out to the far end of a swimming zone
  72. Do a triathlon
  73. Go to all 50 states
  74. Take a risk
  75. Have a wheel chair raced
  76. Make a CD
  77. Dress up as someone different every day for a month
  78. Get my belly button pierced
  79. Go to a movie premier
  80. Get a tattoo
  81. Play the drums
  82. Sneak out
  83. Buy a bird and set it free
  84. Make absolutely no sense
  85. Have a debate
  86. Go a year without lying
  87. Own a gun
  88. Go shooting
  89. Make a table
  90. Study explosions
  91. Act funny
  92. Become a photographer
  93. Go to a tanning salon
  94. Get kicked out of a Wal Mart
  95. Have a staring contest
  96. Stay up for three days straight
  97. Walk alone in a park
  98. Get soaked in the rain
  99. Buy a house of my own
  100. Fly a plane

It may seem stupid, some of them may not make sense. But it's the little things that make the best memories. Some of those I've done, some I haven't. I've got years left. I really hope that this can inspire you.... if there is a you.... to want to do this.

A song to look up is A Lack Of Color by Death Cab for Cutie. I found it on shuffle today because that's how the best songs are discovered, I think.

Stay rad,
Riley

1 comment:

trumpetkid said...

not that this post is old or anything... but im gonna do this now. awesome