the buried life….

so, there have been a few days here in Vegesack where the weather has been less than ideal and i've found myself with nothing else to do but snuggle up in the hotel room with lollies, diet coke, and a movie from Rhys's harddrive. so much so that i ran out of movies i was actually interested in watching (his collection looks a lot different to what mine would look like).

i discovered a show on MTV website that i've been watching quite a bit over the last few days. The Buried Life. it's awesome. a group of canadian boys who wanted to live their life while they were alive. and wanted to prove that anything is possible if you really set your mind to it.
they created a list of the 100 things they want to do before they die. and they have a flipping blast crossing things off the list. it's a good watch, but also inspirational too. for every thing they cross off their list, they help someone else cross something off theirs. some moving moments.

it has made me think - crikey! i'm turning 30 in 2 years! yikes. have i done all the things that i had hoped i'd do? when i was younger, 30 seemed soooooo old and sooooooooo long away. i always thought i'd have a family by now and be well settled down. i've got the husband. but at the mo, that's as far as my little family unit goes. I have packed a lot into my 28 years, but are there things that i've wanted to do but never had the guts? haha..probably. i am possibly the world's biggest woose (i never know how to spell that word - just looked it up online. apparently you can write it woose, wuss, or wussy. there you go).

there are definitely things i want to do but never think i would actually go through with.
so, you know what i'm thinking?

i'm going to make a list of the 30 things i want to do before i turn 30.

#1 - perform in a stage musical
#2 - do a photography course
#3 - go sky-diving
#4 - start business with Kylie
#5 - go to New York
#6 - do a make-up course
#7 - go to the Melbourne Races
#8 - sell my first photograph - to someone i don't know :)
#9 - sit my Grade 8 piano exam
#10 - be off my meds completely
#11 - help build a home for Habitat for Humanity
#12 - have been to 30 concerts in my life (so far i've been to 6, sad huh?)
#13 - go skinny dipping
#14 - swim with sharks (well, at least cage diving anyway)
#15 - go scuba diving again (i haven't been for 6 years!)
#16 - learn french, enough to hold a decent conversation
#17 - compete in and finish a half marathon
#18 - write a letter to all the people in my life that i am close to, telling them what i appreciate about each    
       of them
#19 - learn a new sport
#20 - learn to surf (and NOT be scared of the sharks)
#21 - get back into dancing.  i will find a class and attend it - regularly.
#22 - lose 10kgs
#23 - have an overseas holiday with my 2 sisters
#24 - treat my bestie to something amazing (that she really needs)
#25 - set up an album where i take and print one picture every day - showing a highlight from that day
#26 - start writing a book
#27 - go on a Volunteer holiday with the hubby
#28 - be able to bait my own hook (this is one for the hubby, he'll be so please, haha)
#29 - donate $500 to a local charity
#30 - have a baby (or at least get pregnant by the time i'm 30)


so. that was harder than i thought it was going to be. writing a list of things i want to do before i die would have been a bit easier. but then, i guess, we never know when we're going to die.

i leave Germany tomorrow, land back in Aotearoa on Thursday. next week my 30 before 30 mission begins. who knows, if i achieve all of these things before 30, i might even keep going and lengthen my list to 100 things to do before i die.

we need to live our life while we are alive. otherwise what's the point?
get some direction. i've got mine now.


so…what is the one main thing you want to do before you die?