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"My 5 things and your 5 things"

If you were to pick 5 things you want to achieve in your life that you have not yet done, what would they be and why?

Here’s my 5 in no particular order:

1.Climb Mount Everest: The reason I want to do this is because I want to feel the adrenalin pumping through my blood as I push myself to do one of the hardest feats I consider there to be for my body and mind. I have a picture of Everest showing the main paths taken by climbers and one day I want to be able to point to that picture and say “I went this way”

2.Go on a long-haul flight: This might seem like nothing much to most but for me this would be a real achievement because it is physically impossible for me to do at the moment. I’d love to visit somewhere like Australia or Canada, but at the moment it’s something I can only dream about.

3.Tell someone I love them and mean it: I think I was born incapable of loving anyone! I’m a strange sort of person, I don’t get heartbroken when someone close to me dies, I just miss their presence, but that’s nowhere near the same thing. I wouldn’t exactly be a wreck if I was told I could never see my family again, because I barely speak to them as it is, and I hate to say it, but it feels like I barely know them.

4.Not have kids: Another slightly odd one but I have my reasons. I don’t like this world we live in one little bit so I would never even consider bringing a child into it. Besides, most people I know that have kids have them for entirely selfish reasons, really its like that for a lot of people these days, as it isn’t necessary for most of us to reproduce, after all the point of kids is to continue the survival of the species, but the world is overpopulated as it is, and I really don’t want to add to that.

5.Manage a full week in Uni: Another seemingly easy one, but have yet to go an entire week in playschool/primary school/secondary school/Uni without missing something. I’ve sworn myself to doing a full week when I go back in February and it will be a huge achievement for me if I succeed.

Your turn....

1) Produce an album that has been floating around my consciousness for several months. I have 3 SONGS ALREADY! WOOT! Seriously though, I'd love to do that.

2) Give someone a gift (no, not that you dirty beggars) I have also thought about. Actually 2 things, agift and a situation/place, and if they were at the same time and all went well, it'd be the most perfect moment I could ever possible wish for*

3) Travel. I am going around Europe in my Gap Year, and Tanzania and Southern Europe has already made me want more.

4) Have a family

5) Just have one moment - if it was forever it wouldn't be able to exist of absoloute, utter and total bliss. Not sexual, or adrenalin etc, but just one moment where everything, every single fibre and event and look and sound is perfect happiness*


*NOTE: Extremely daydreamy

I shall now ignore sneers.

See! I can't say I've done that:( I know it's a fun thing to do and I'd like to but no I'm boring ol' me. Hmph.

Cubist wrote:
para-sailing (is that what you call it when
> you're attached to the back of a speed boat while wearing a
> parachute?)

Indeed it is. Damn fun it is too.

My 5 things are, from most important to least important, this -

1) I can't tell you right now because that defeats the point of the challenge but it is something I really want to do before I die or I'll live an unforfilled (sp? lol) life.

2) Gain a group of friends that I can totally rely on as mates. I have a small group right now but I often fall out with many of them and I'd like to get a group of friends maybe about 5-10 that I can completely rely on in a tight spot. Real mates. I only have about 2 I can really rely on right now.

3) Have an adventure. Corny and unlikely i know but I seriously feel that I have nothing to my life right now. I mean whenever i talk to my cousins and so on they are just going away or have just come back from holidays in China where they did charity work...or hiked across the great wall or...went para-sailing (is that what you call it when you're attached to the back of a speed boat while wearing a parachute?) You know not even adventures just interesting stories to tell of fun and interesting things they've done.

4) Try and get recognised for something even if it is just because of something small and it's recognised by a small group of people. I really want to be an author and maybe do what those good will hunting guys did and write, produce and star in my own film. Even if they were all flops I'd like to do it.

5) Feel good about myself. I am a strong believer that you are who you are but I really amn't happy the way I am right now so I want that to change. It'll probably never happen that's why it's at the bottom of the list but I really would like to get a better body (gym or something), get a style going with clothes instead of looking like I just fell out of a variety of not so classy stores. I think the most expensive stuff I have are Vans, Quiksilver or Next. How many adults wear that? I need to start wearing nice shirts, proper shoes (not vans trainers and so on) you know just get a style going so I don't feel like inadequate around people a lot better looking than me:P

English Bloke, continued

6) To give Kyz your T-shirt

1) To own a nice car
2) To buy a house
3) Not to have kids
4) To star in a low budget movie that becomes a classic
5) To become less shallow
5.a) To learn how to count

I'll have my ambitions and you can have yours.

To get a tattoo? Is that it? Why don't you, y'know, go get one. As in right now.

Not exactly a life changing event.

My five things.

i) Get a story or screenplay produced and published or filmed
i) To start a family
i) To work in a job I enjoy, regardless of the pay
i) To have a tattoo
i) To live in Canada

What if number 4 is the first thing you do, and you get killed? Then you can't do the rest.