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Last year I made a love list to life. It was a great thing to think about, and I still think about it from time to time, those 100 things still give me great pleasure. Around the same time I came across a number of people making life lists- a list of things that they want to accomplish in their lives. Mighty Life List. Mighty Chookoolonks Life List. That seemed like an important thing to do. After all if you don't make an effort to do these things, they more than likely won't happen, this stuff doesn't tend to just happen by itself. Which would be a great shame. As John Lennon said "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans".
So for my 500th post I thought it was time to think about my Life List a bit more. To put it out there. To remind me to do the things I really want to do.
Go to the Melbourne Cup
Visit all
(2019 Louise says: Wow, this list is really getting out of hand. 28 cities and Paris still isn't there! I've edited it to exclude Baghdad, as I can't see that I would ever travel there, everywhere else seems doable-ish in some future life)
Travel to Antarctica
Attend all Australian Writers festivals at least once- Adelaide (February), Bateman's Bay (June),
Attend an announcement of Literary Prizes-
Live in Paris for a year
Go to Darwin
Hear a nightingale sing
Visit what I think of as the ancestral home in Scotland
See a puffin (perhaps I'd better hurry up?)
Go on a pelagic trip
Cruise the South Pacific
Read Dickens, all of his major works at least-
Cook my way through The Delia Collection Soup
Read all 1001- currently 320+
Drive across Australia
See Sydney NYE fireworks, not just on the tele
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| Sure, the pool was shut the first time... But the bar was open the second time I swam up! |
1000 fruits what a fabulous idea! Perhaps I'll start with 100?
See Cirque du Soleil's O in Las Vegas
Shave my head
Go on a snorkelling holiday with my son
Learn French, again (a perpetual challenge, but I am working on it)
Go back to Canada
This isn't a final list of course. There will be more over time, and hopefully most of these will be completed. Some are fairly easy, and some, well, they're more of a challenge.
I needed to see this list -- I'm retiring and they asked me to make a bucket list of 20-30 things. My mind was sort of a blank. Sort of. And not. And you have inspired me. Not the same things, but how wonderful the bucket can be! What a great list -- I hope they all come to fruition -- and much more!
ReplyDeleteI made up a bucket list a year or so ago and am slowly doing things and adding things to it.
ReplyDelete"Live in Paris for a year". Sigh... oh yes, please!
ReplyDeleteWe really do need to spend more time living because life is short. Some of the items on your list, like shave my head, made me smile.
ReplyDeleteI like the last one in particular. You should do this very soon. ;)
ReplyDeleteYes, I like this list, Louise. A year in Paris sounds lovely. And a puffin. Oh my. (But I'd cross off Darwin. My brother lived there for two years and he wasn't a fan.)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm really curious about the UNESCO Cities of Literature. I think I'll see if I can find out more about that.
ReplyDeleteWhat is swim up to the bar?
ReplyDeleteI think you could easily skip Iowa City though I've never been...
I wish I was good with lists.
I tend to lose them or forget.
Sometimes just being lazy is nice...like today..rainy and a bit chilly here in Paris.
Jeanie- glad to be of some help, I'd love to see your list too.
ReplyDeleteCarol making the list does help to clarify it all, and I hope to achieve things.
Vicki- Paris for a year and Antarctica I think are two of the big ones.
Kathy- I'm not sure why I want to shave my head, it's just always been something that I've wanted to do.
Ah Hannah, I wish I was. I have no idea when that delight will occur.
Deb- I don't think I can cross off Darwin. The Northern Territory is the only state/territory that I haven't visited. It'd be unAustralian of me to not want to go...
Carol- I want to go somewhere lush and tropical that has a pool with a bar in it and swim up to the bar. I've only seen it in pictures, and it always looks so amazing. Iowa City is an intriguing and perhaps surprising addition to the cities of literature for me, but there must be good reasons for it to be there? It is possibly the least tempting of the cities for me.
You left off 'Visiting my friends Kevin and Steve in Larnook' ;-)
ReplyDeleteAh that's because it's on the to do list, not the maybe one day I'll get to do that list! Everytime I see some of your pictures it reminds me how much I want to visit.
ReplyDeleteOkay, yes, I've taken a look at this list before. Of course I'm not the same person. Now it's the idea of visiting Antarctica that intrigues me the most.
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