Life List or Dream List

I saw this list at someone's blog, and I knew I had to "steal" it and use it here. I always had a list of short-term and long-term goals, just not a name for it, like Life List. It's fun to see what I have accomplished already - it makes me feel less of a failure. The lady had some rules to it, I don't want to do that. But I actually came up with two lists instead, one of accomplishments, the other of dreams and goals for my future.

Also, she called it a Life List because she wanted to make a point as to have dreams come true in a lifetime, not working towards death. I agree. Bucket List is also not a very nice title. So I go with Life list, or maybe Dream List. I can change things if I want to, like when I think something is not that important to me anymore, I can remove it and add something else. Life is ever so changing, so my list can be as well.

So without further ado, here is my list:

1. Write and publish a book - not sure if that would be a children's book or a more serious one
2. Go to the Olympics - summer or winter
3. Put my feet in each ocean
4. Start my own business
5. Talk with a homeless person and help out
6. Get over my fear of public speaking
7. Visit each of the 50 states (of the USA)
8. Train and run in a race, preferably a half-marathon, or even a marathon
9. Anonymously pay for someone else's meal at a restaurant
10. Sit on and drive a motorcycle
11. Learn to play the piano (correctly!)
12. Swim with dolphins
13. Go on a helicopter ride
14. Hike up to Machu Picchu
15. Walk on the Great Wall of China
16.  See the Pyramids in Egypt and ride on a camel
17.  See the Taj Mahal in India
18. Go to Rome and see the Colosseum
19. See the Hagia Sophia (in Turkey)
20. Go to Jerusalem and the Holy Land
21. Visit Australia
22. Go snorkeling - preferably at Great Barrier Reef
23. Learn to say "hello" in 50 languages
24. Have a library in my house (one room just filled with books!)
25. Reach and maintain my ideal weight for the rest of my life
26. Ride a gondola in Venice
27. Go sailing on a real sailboat, maybe even around the world
28. Be in a hot-air balloon
29. Make a huge change in someone's life
30. Go on a cruise (a real one, not just the two-hour sunset cruise I did already!)
31. Visit every continent
32. Be a mentor to someone
33. Plan and execute a 365-day photo shoot
34. Have my portrait painted
35. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
36. Teach German in a foreign country
37. Cross a glacier on foot
38. Make a Family Tree at least four generations back
39. Write some kind of biography
40. Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
41. Learn Hebrew
42. Have my own Photography Exhibition
43. Climb Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania, Africa)
44. Go to a Fashion Show
45. Read ten thousand books
46. Host a dinner party
47. Visit Stonehenge
    
48. See a Highland castle (in Scotland)
    
49. Go whale-watching
50. Donate money and put my name on something like a bench or brick
    

Okay, after that wish list, I have come up with a list of things that have happened already, so it's more of an accomplishment list. Things I have done so far:

1. Survived Cancer
2. Danced in the rain
3. Driven across the United States from coast to coast, and back
4. Skipped school
5. Eye witnessed an historic event (the fall of the Berlin Wall & 9/11)
6. Gone skydiving
7. Lived in more than one country
8. Flown a kite
9. Watched the sunrise / sunset 
10. Visited Ground Zero
11. Sang Karaoke (in New Orleans on 9/11)
12. Be in NYC on New Year's Eve
13. Seen a falling star and made a wish
14. Attended a Wine Tasting at a winery
15. Visited the Grand Canyon
16. Placed a bet in Las Vegas
17. Ridden on a San Francisco cable car
18. Been horse back riding - with the Navajo Indians through Monument Valley
19. Traveled by train through three countries 
20. Been in a rainforest
21. Gone to school in a different country
22. Swam in the Mediterranean Sea
23. Been White Water Rafting
24. Sewn an actual garment (here, and here, and here, and here)
25. Climbed the Eiffel Tower
26. Witnessed a solar eclipse 
27. Slept under the stars
28. Seen the Tour de France live
29. Planted a tree
30. Wrote my will
31. Spent a whole (!) day reading
32. Drove the Autobahn - no speed limit
33. Published one of my photographs in a magazine
34. Be a mom
35. Bathed in a hot spring
36. Learned how to bake bread
37. Ran a 5K as a timed runner (in NYC)
38. Seen a child being born
39. Drive along Route 66 (USA)
40. Drove a convertible with the top down 
41. Seen Mont Saint Michel (France), Notre Dame, and Sacre Coeur 
42. Dyed my hair red

So this list is a little shorter, it makes me feel like I have done some things in my life. I guess, once again, I can say that I feel so blessed. Now I have to work on some of those goals....

What about you? Do you have dreams and goals in your life? What is it (if you want to share)?