30 Before 30
I turned 22 over the weekend. It made me feel kind of old. I know it's not really old, but I started to move out of that college-age safety blanket and into adulthood. Scary.
If you’ve been following along, you know that I like to set goals for myself. I don’t like it when goals are abstract. It’s better for me when they have finite criteria that they are accomplished. So, last night, I sat down and I made a list of 30 things I’d like to do before I turn 30. They aren’t particularly deep or thought provoking. It’s just some stuff I want to do. If I tell someone about the list (like you, for example), then I’m more likely to actually follow through on it. So here we go:
- Have a real adult job.
- Run a 10k.
- Ride in a hot air balloon.
- Get published and sell my writing.
- Skydive.
- See some penguins.
- See an opera.
- Visit New Zealand.
- Do some random act of kindness.
- Ride a camel.
- Learn to drive a manual car.
- Get financially fit...supposedly you're meant to have savings.
- Website redesign.
- Climb a mountain. A big one.
- Send out Christmas Cards, like a real adult.
- Own a car.
- Take a (fun) roadtrip, not one where we're just driving like hell to get somewhere.
- Get a dog.
- Watch AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies list...and the movies added when the list was updated in 2007.
- Get some really great professional photos done.
- See the sunrise on the beach. I could do this tomorrow...maybe I will.
- Cook every recipe in a cookbook.
- Go to a film premiere.
- Go to the Iowa State Fair.
- Dog sled.
- Figure out liquid eyeliner. I'm crap at it.
- Do something tangible with all of my photos, like a scrapbook or something.
- Eat at one of those blind restuarants.
- Go successfully geocaching. I've tried in the past and failed.
- Learn to parallel park.
It's all very doable in eight years, if I start now. I'll check back in November.
Do you have a 30 before 30 list?