I started this list when I was 10 and have been adding to it, and crossing off it ever since. When I first started this blog I wrote a ’57 Things I Want To Do Before I Die’ and after a few more ideas and modifications (and I full more cross outs – woo hoo!) I decided it was time for an update! Also, I plan to write a series based on the ones I have crossed out ala ‘Mighty Girl’. Keep posted!
1. Make a difference; rattle the world with something that will last and change future generations, the way people live and think
2. Be in love with life – capre diem!
3. Change someone’s life, inspire them,
4. Fall in love totally and completely
5. Write and publish a book/novel – or a few! Something classic, like the next Jane Austen
6. Record an album with at least a few originals, tour with a band
7. Have a family and raise children to look at the world with innocent, loving, curious eyes (in other words – not brats!)
8. See the Australian Chamber orchestra live in concert (and meet Richard Tongetti!)
9. Play in an orchestra for a full length symphony and/or the Messiah with a full orchestra!
10. Play these pieces on violin
- Meditation
- Bruch’s Violin Concerto
- Montagues and Capulets
- Nigun
- Banjo and Violin
Play a violin concerto with a full orchestra backing
11. Get a lead role in a musical
12. Visit Prince Edward Island
13. Travel Europe
Other places to see:
- Grand Canyon
- Spain
- Canada
- Russia
- Africa
- New York
- Jerusalem and Israel
14. Go on a missions trip
15. Go on a pilgrimage(could be linked to #13)
16. Visit Broadway. See Les Miserables, Rent, Lion King, Sondheim
17. Spend a month in some foreign city i.e. Paris
18. Ride the Orient Express
19. Read as many books as possible, prehaps even finish my list!
20. Hanglide like a bird
21. Sing at Carols by Candelight in Melbourne
22. Write a musical
23. Act in a movie or a stage show (even a commercial!)
24. Go to a U2 concert
25. Be a hero to someone
26. Make friends with someone I dont like
27. Meet a gypsy/Bohemian
28. Discover something
29. Conduct an orchestra
30. Fly an aeroplane
31. SEE THE SNOW, feel it, play in it, have a white Christmas
32. Find every planet on a telescope
33. Meet/Interview a famous person
34. Stay awake for 48 hours
35. Learn to tap dance
36. Go to a real ball (like the ones in fairytales)
37. Host a radio show
38. Go to the Hillsong conference
39. Paint an oil
40. Set up my own webpage
41. Do something no one’s ever done before
42. Start a club, society or band
43. Be a leader on a summer camp/music camp
44. Graffiti something public
45. Sleep under the stars with only a blanket
46. Learn self defence
47. Climb a ridgy-didge mountain
48. Have a two storey house with a designated guest bedroom full of guests
49. Get lost in a forest
50. Go to these music festivals:
- Byron Bay Blues and Roots Fest
- Tamworth Country Festival (enter Fiddle competition)
- Port Fairy Folk Festival
51. Dye my hair red
52. See the Olympics OR the World Cup
53. Touch the clouds
54. Fly in a balloon
55. Make an outfit by myself
56. Learn how to yodel
57. Own a camel or llama or alpaca
58. Be conversational in seven languages
59. Orgainse a retreat for young teen girls
60. Organise a Christian Music Camp
61. Live in a house with a bunch of other creative people
62. Ring a church bell in one of those massive cathedrals
63. Go for a month without a computer or television
64. Make some grand unforgettable loving actions
Stranded Gypsy Girl 