99 Things to do before you die
I found this list in a 1993 issue of Cosmopolitain Magazine
1 - Give your mother fifty red roses and tell her you love her.
2 - Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
3 - Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
4 - Have a love affair in Paris - kir royales at Brasserie Lipp and kisses in Le Petit Louvre.
5 - Get dressed up and enjoy an evening at the opera.
6 - Spend a whole day eating everything you've been told is bad for you, without feeling guilty.
7 - Be an extra in a film.
8 - Tell someone the story of your life sparing no details.
9 - Make love on a forest floor.
10 - Make love on a train.
11 - Throw an enormous party and invite every one of your friends.
12 - Learn to roller skate.
13 - Own a room with a view.
14 - Learn how to take a compliment.
15 - Buy a round-the world ticket and a rucksack and run away.
16 - Change your hairstyle totally - from long to short, black to blonde or vice versa.
17 - Tell some spine chilling ghost stories around a campfire.
18 - Have your portrait painted.
19 - Put your name down to be a passenger on the first shuttle to the moon.
20 - Send a message in a bottle.
21 - Discover your own personal style.
22 - Terrify yourself by parachuting, white-water rafting, or rock-climbing.
23 - Ride a camel into the desert.
24 - Get to know your neighbours.
25 - Swim with a dolphin.
26 - Plant a tree.
27 - Learn not to say yes when you mean no.
28 - Make love on the kitchen table.
29 - Have the ultimate luxury-hotel experience: champagne and caviar in a hot tub with your lover.
30 - Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
31 - Visit the Senate and House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
32 - Get your father to teach you to waltz properly.
33 - Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
34 - Be the boss.
35 - Fall deeply in love - helplessly and unconditionally.
36 - Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
37 - Write that novel you know you have inside you, compose that poem, paint that picture...
38 - Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
39 - Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just this once.)
40 - Dress entirely in leather, including sexy thigh-high boots and elbow-length gloves.
41 - Do a Julie Andrews ! Sing as loudly as you possibly can from the top of a mountain.
42 - Dive off the side of a yacht into the turquoise Aegean.
43 - Become someone's mentor.
44 - Do a hair-raising lap around the Indy 500 track in a race car.
45 - Have ten immaculately French-manicured fingernails.
46 - Shower in a waterfall.
47 - Ask for a raise.
48 - Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
49 - Blow all your savings and take a flight on the Concorde.
50 - Spend a night in a haunted house - all by yourself.
51 - Stop hiding your true feelings and tell several people what you really think of them.
52 - Read the Kama Sutra and put a bit of theory into practice.
53 - Be serenaded from beneath your bedroom window.
54 - See the northern lights.
55 - Run a marathon.
56 - Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
57 - Experience weightlessness.
58 - Ask a man you just met to go on a date.
59 - Drive across America from coast to coast.
60 - Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
61 - Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful designer suit.
62 - Make your will.
63 - Sleep under the stars.
64 - Take a ride on The Beast, at Kings Island near Cincinnati - the longest roller coaster in the world.
65 - Learn how to complain effectively - and do it!
66 - Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
67 - Leave home.
68 - Spend a whole day curled up on your bed reading a great novel.
69 - Forgive your parents.
70 - Learn to change a tire.
71 - Write a series of passionately romantic letters to your man.
72 - Learn to juggle with three balls.
73 - Sunbathe naked.
74 - Find a job you love.
75 - Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
76 - Overcome your fear of failure.
77 - Sing (or be sung to) in a steamy, smoky jazz club in New Orleans.
78 - Revisit your old school to see if you can find the initials you carved on your desk years ago.
79 - Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
80 - Go on vacation by yourself to somewhere truly exotic.
81 - Buy your own house and then spend time decorating it exactly as you want.
82 - Appear on television and enjoy at least fifteen minutes of fame.
83 - Grow sunflowers from seeds.
84 - Cruise gently down the Nile in a white-sailed felucca.
85 - Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
86 - Own a convertible and drive everywhere with the top down and music blaring.
87 - Accept yourself for who you are.
88 - Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
89 - Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
90 - Go up in a hot-air balloon.
91 - Attend one really huge rock concert.
92 - Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.
93 - Be able to handle: tax forms, wolf whistles, Jehovah's Witnesses, your bank manager, your boss, your hairdresser, telephone solicitors, power drills.
94 - Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in a glamorous European casino.
95 - Attend at least one major sporting event: Wimbledon, the World Cup, the Monaco Grand Prix.
96 - Walk along a seaside pier in the middle of winter eating hot, salty french fries straight from the bag.
97 - Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
98 - Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
99 - Go to one fabulous ball.
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