3 things you want to accomplish before you die

[bikerscars]

currently for me in no particular order:

1) hike the appalachian trail

2) retire on a remote homestead (away from the things of man)

3) find my soul mate (hey i like to dream)


your turn...

[Rei]

1. Travel, everywhere... experience as much as I can first hand... and get wiser for as long as I get older
2. Get my own dream house built, with a large enough yard for a small stable and a horse or two *:lovestruck:
3. Make enough money to start a fund for a good cause (like bikerscars says, I can dream *;) ); or basically to have done something for the world, even if it's only within my community

[Guido]

1) Get married
2) Have kids
3) Don't screw up the first 2

;D

[Rei]

1) Get married
2) Have kids
3) Don't screw up the first 2

;D
Wow man... what high hopes you have...
*points above* notice the preparation for a hermit life.
I've totally thrown those plans out the window until I find it's possible to find someone good enough to marry. *[smiley=blank.gif]

[Tarrick]

1) Get married
2) Have kids
3) Don't screw up the first 2

;D

I'll amend that to:

1) Someone to marry
2) Marry and have her have kids
3) Don't screw up the first 2

[rwyatt365]

In no particular order;

- Drive a real race car at speed on a road course
- Go into orbit (or beyond, if possible)
- Leave my son enough money so that he doesn't have to struggle, but not so much that he'll become a lazy rich-kid

[Jbmontag]

1) Publish a book

2) Travel everywhere I want to go

3) Rule the world

Three always gives me something to work towards.

[TeleportThis]

1) invent teleporter
2) get married
3) retire to amsterdam and work in bicycle shop


Hey, I can dream.

[Zeinland]

1. Have a planet named after myself.
2. Have a Statue in Washington in front of the White house. Of myself of course.
3. Invent hibernation for human's.

[Rei]

In no particular order;

- Drive a real race car at speed on a road course
- Go into orbit (or beyond, if possible)
- Leave my son enough money so that he doesn't have to struggle, but not so much that he'll become a lazy rich-kid


Autobahn FTW!

[rwyatt365]

In no particular order;

- Drive a real race car at speed on a road course
- Go into orbit (or beyond, if possible)
- Leave my son enough money so that he doesn't have to struggle, but not so much that he'll become a lazy rich-kid


Autobahn FTW!
Yowza!

I've done the Autostrada. Them Eye-tal-yuns is crazy!
Perhaps the Germans would be somewhat more reserved?

[MichaelH]

1. Make enough money so I can retire without worrying constantly about money.
2. Get a fantasy novel published. (Hi JB!)
3. Overcome depression. (Looks like it's going to be a life-long struggle, though.)

[Evalind]

1) Acquire a castle. (Brand new is fine... To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
2) Work as little as I can while still having enough money to survive, pay for computer upgrades, video game subscriptions, etc.
3) Stay married. I'd like to take that "Til Death" thing as literally as possible.

[Rei]

In no particular order;

- Drive a real race car at speed on a road course
- Go into orbit (or beyond, if possible)
- Leave my son enough money so that he doesn't have to struggle, but not so much that he'll become a lazy rich-kid


Autobahn FTW!
Yowza!

I've done the Autostrada. Them Eye-tal-yuns is crazy!
Perhaps the Germans would be somewhat more reserved?

I don't think Europeans are ever 'reserved' on the road... but maybe, I'll have to wait till I visit Germany to see for me-self :thumbsup:

1) Acquire a castle. (Brand new is fine... To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
2) Work as little as I can while still having enough money to survive, pay for computer upgrades, video game subscriptions, etc.
3) Stay married. I'd like to take that "Til Death" thing as literally as possible.

Castles? Looks cool, but a little too gloomy for me... maybe a small farm house ;D

[jeffersonian]

1. Build a house on an expanse of land that keeps me from having to see civilization outside my window.
2. Have a career in writing.

Actually, that would do it for me. Somebody else can have my 3rd if they need an extra! ;)

[phoenix]

1) Acquire a castle. (Brand new is fine... To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)


Ooooooh! I'll take the castle! But we may have to talk about location...Idaho wouldn't be one of my preferred locations. Maybe the North Carolina mountains?

[Max T]

1. invent something still used >50yrs later or advance a bit of thinking
2. take the (expected) funds from 1. to start an investment fund
3. take the excess funds from 2. to assist further in 1. and give to charities that achieve results.

[HackerX]

1) Invent/Find potion of immortality
2) ???
3) Profit!

[ShaiGar]

3. Create an empire either in SEA, or Central Africa.
2. Design and implement an energy saving cost efficient means of transportation, and communication... worldwide scale
1. Build Shai Gar Enterprises, make it rival Wayne Enterprises

[Bossy Mom]

1. See my daughter married to a wonderful man with great health insurance
2. Outlive my dog
3. See more of the state I live in
4. Read all the books I've wanted to
5. Finish the double wedding ring quilt I started last summer

[Paul V]

1: Finish and publish the book I've been writing for 5 years now.
2: Use the benefits of 1 to improve the world via charity/activism.
3: Find true love.
4: If 3 is impossible, then devote my life to keeping the world alive for as long as I can.

[GOD]

Ahh..

Create some mini me's, and they can rule my empire. (With more than one woman is ok by me ;D).
Build my empire properly.
Get into some really aggressive intellectual jousting, possibly politics. (I hate most politicians, I'd like to crunch their bones).

[LadyHuna]

1. Hike the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail)
2. Win the Nobel Peace Prize
3. Finish my senior thesis
...it might even be in that order i'm such a procrastinator...

[cielo market]

Education-wise:

1. Survive my current classes.
2. Pass portfolio review to get into Junior Block this spring.
3. Survive Block.

[ShaiGar]

3. Create an empire either in SEA, or Central Africa.
2. Design and implement an energy saving cost efficient means of transportation, and communication... worldwide scale
1. Build Shai Gar Enterprises, make it rival Wayne Enterprises
Changed my mind.

1. Build a nation with strategically placed zombie fortresses, (will settle for one zombie fortress) and trade routes between them.
2. Build Shai Gar Enterprises, make it rival Wayne Enterprises.
3. Become so distinguished an author that my name (if not I) lives throughout Human History.

[Epicurus]

Write a book.

Publish the book.

Live a life as close to the stoical/epicurean ideal as I could.

[vulcan]

currently for me in no particular order:

1) hike the appalachian trail

2) retire on a remote homestead (away from the things of man)

3) find my soul mate (hey i like to dream)


your turn...


haha i laughed when i saw these.

same here... ;o

[deicruxified]

1. study guitar at seville and be as good as andres segovia, julian bream or john williams
2. be a writer and become the world's famous thinker
3. secure a death place on a top of the mountain overviewing blue seas and greeneries

probably start a new religion if i have enough time 8-)

[deicruxified]

3. Survive Block.
what i despise in college

[dayguard]

1) Get married
2) Produce an award winning animation
3) Own a media company

[Doppelbock]

1) Write a book and have it published (okay that's really 2 things, sue me)
2) Visit the British Isles, namely (in order of importance) Wales, Scotland, and Ireland
3) Take a trip into space (hopefully possible/affordable during my lifetime?)

DB

[tubaglue]

1) Travel the world playing my music.
2) Find someone to share my life with.
3) Grow spiritually, intellectually, and interpersonally.

[radioactivez0r]

See the world
Make my mark
Find happiness, however I define it

[deicruxified]

1. study guitar at seville and be as good as andres segovia, julian bream or john williams
2. be a writer and become the world's famous thinker
3. secure a death place on a top of the mountain overviewing blue seas and greeneries

probably start a new religion if i have enough time 8-)


i forgot juan serrano :D i want to be the world's best flamenco/classical guitarist hehehehe screw me it's 4 already

[The Rose]

I think I'd like to see the Alps.

[gwalchma]

1.) Travel/Float around the world - My pipe dream: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
2.) Write my memoirs while floating around the world
3.) Provide my son the foundation he needs to be successful in his life
* This is truly the only thing I MUST accomplish before I kick the bucket.

[qwerty]

Accomplish before dieing... hmmm...

I have just one goal:
** Finish climbing the mountain **

[HarleyQuinn]

1: Whistle while I work
2: Test the theory that objects may be closer than they appear
3: Test the theory that breaking a mirror does indeed mean 7 years bad luck

[cielo market]

3: Test the theory that breaking a mirror does indeed mean 7 years bad luck

how's that going so far?

[HarleyQuinn]

3: Test the theory that breaking a mirror does indeed mean 7 years bad luck

how's that going so far?

Haven't broken one yet. Honestly, I really am superstitious about breaking mirrors. I had to leave a room in which I was helping a student with her computer 'cause her and her roommate broke a mirror they were carrying in :-[

[GOD]

3: Test the theory that breaking a mirror does indeed mean 7 years bad luck

how's that going so far?

Haven't broken one yet. Honestly, I really am superstitious about breaking mirrors. I had to leave a room in which I was helping a student with her computer 'cause her and her roommate broke a mirror they were carrying in *:-[

I think thats a J thing. You get caught up in ritual tradition.

You should just confront all your superstitions by actually breaking them all. I've walked under ladders, broken mirrors and proverbially kicked the black cat that crossed my path.

Like I say to people, always confront your weaknesses otherwise they will hold back your abilities.

[niffer]

1. Explore the Amazon rainforest
2. Backpack alone in China's countryside for a year
3. Be on the cover of a magazine

Truthfully, though, I wouldn't really mind if I didn't accomplish any of these things. As long as there is love..:)

[enteka]

1- Being able to stop working without feeling guilt
2- Find the loved one
3- Have an article in journal about me

[Hdier]

1. Do something people will remember me for
2. Obtain the maximum amount of knowledge possible
3. Travel to a different dimension

[Bonnie]

1) See the Red Hot Chilli Peppers live in concert, and be invited up on stage to dance with Anthony Kiedis
2) Visit the Zion Wildlife Gardens in New Zealand
3) Find true love

Are these even accomplishments? Maybe...

1) Row/cox in the National Rowing Championships
2) Because a successful criminal profiler for MI5
3) Find true love, have their babies, and then not screw up aforementioned babies

That's more like it. :)





Bonnie added to this post, 2 minutes and 4 seconds later...

I think I'd like to see the Alps.

I've seen the Alps. They're pretty.

[BadgerDad]

1. Understand everything
2. Explain all the understanding from 1, above
3. Have them actually listen to what I said.

[banzai]

1) Establish true financial and intellectual freedom

Enough money generation that I can donate, research, and invest in things as they interest me. Become an intellectual pioneer in something I find important.

2) Summit the 7 and travel to 85% of countries in the world

My dream as a photographer, mountaineer, and insatiable explorer.

3) Have a family to grow up in my world (after I've had plenty of time to work on it!) :)

[Seven]

Too many things, too little time. I can't begin to narrow down my long list of things to do, see and understand to three things over a lifetime. As I get older, the list only gets longer.

However, on my deathbed there are three things that I hope I can look back on and know about myself (1) I gave back more than I took; (2) I gave everything my all; and (3) I lived my life my way.

[Lethe]

1) Get a kickass career

2) "Travel everywhere I want to go" - Jbmontag

3) Adopt a child.

[PortInStorm]

1. same here about the remote homestead, but up north with lots of snow: no more having to hear tour buses back up, helicopters, municipal fireworks, construction trucks, neighbours' cars with broken mufflers, other peoples' dogs barking, interfamilial fights in their backyard. I want the silence that is deafening when I wake up in the morning. The snow day kind of quiet.
2. have a PhD beside my name
3. stay married, and have provided net benefit to my partner.

if I had more..

4. live (and sail) on a moderately-sized sailboat, in a nice marina (yes, you can do that all year even here in Canada)

Wiat, Paul V, what do you mean that you'd only want to extend the 'lifespan' of the world if you had true love?

[Paul V]

Wiat, Paul V, what do you mean that you'd only want to extend the 'lifespan' of the world if you had true love?

Um, no. I meant the opposite, actually. I meant that if I can't find true love, I won't settle for less. And instead of having a family and all that, I'll dedicate myself to protect the world until I die or it is destroyed, whichever happens first.

[AnandaMeansBliss]

1) participate an orgy
2) travel the speed of light
3) reach enlightenment

[ShaiGar]

I would give up all of my sexual urges and indeed sexuality in order to be conscious inside a black hole for a year, and retain all information and thoughts i have within there when i leave, whole.

That would be the greatest adventure ever. I want to know what that would be like.

[Hypomanic]

1 become a computer engineer
2 marry, have kids, + masters degree
3 become college professor

(there's more, but these have a common theme)

[nightfire]

1. inscribe my name in history, preferably with a "good" meaning;
2. achieve the top position in my dream career and retire with honor;
3. get married, have kids, have me and my partner fulfil the oath (especially that "till death" part) or at least experience the thing that is called "mutual love".

Hm, feeling sentimental today...

[MetalWounds]

1. Find a woman who is worthy of sharing an eternity with
2. Raise a family the "right" way in what is evermore a "wrong" world.
3. Find true enlightenment

[BadMojo]

1) Publish a book
2) Get married and have children
3) Achieve true freedom

[WavesSootheMe]

Too many things, too little time. I can't begin to narrow down my long list of things to do, see and understand to three things over a lifetime. As I get older, the list only gets longer.

However, on my deathbed there are three things that I hope I can look back on and know about myself (1) I gave back more than I took; (2) I gave everything my all; and (3) I lived my life my way.

This is more of my take on this question. The details of what I do aren't so important, as long as I keep on growing and learning and living my life the way that I see fit. There's a long list of how I want to do this, but it is ever-changing.