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12/20/2006 01:37:27 PM · #1 |
OK. So I just had my 29th birthday last week and 1 of my friends asked me to list 10 things I wanted to do before turning 30. And I froze.
The only 2 I could think of were to visit Canada and get one good publication of one of my photos.
So, I am calling out to all you DPCers to recommend some things you think I should try to do before I'm thirty and I'll pick the best (most feasible ones) and see what I can achieve. They can be as crazy or normal as you care to suggest.
Open to the floor... |
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12/20/2006 01:42:35 PM · #2 |
1. Take a flight on a hang glider :-)
2. Learn to cook (if you haven't already)
That'll start the ball rolling...
R.
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12/20/2006 01:45:55 PM · #3 |
canyoning!
and I 2nd hang gliding:)
the earlier you start the less you'll regret about not doing it :) |
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12/20/2006 01:47:49 PM · #4 |
Why does it matter if you do them before you're 30? It's not like you're suddenly over the hill and can't do everything anyway.
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12/20/2006 01:47:58 PM · #5 |
Get a motorcycle license and drive around on some back country roads
Skydiving
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12/20/2006 01:48:21 PM · #6 |
Try to hit 170mph before it becomes to scary.
Try all the positions shown in the Kama Sutra before your back becomes to rigid or you need Fy A Gra.
Leave your parents and get your own home.
Ask the girl out who you've always been too afraid to ask.
Ask the model you've always been too afraid to ask for a shoot.
Climb a very high mountain somewhere far away.
Go to Tokyo.
Make a two week trip by hitchhiking and living on the street with a spending limit of 5 dollars a day.
Visit Amsterdam and smoke pot till the smoke comes out of your ears.
Visit Antarctica.
Eat bugs.
Get kids.
Marry.
Become a buddy of a terminal patient.
Go to Irak or Afghanistan for a street documentary.
Spent two weeks on a fishingboat (the ones you really got to work on).
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12/20/2006 01:49:04 PM · #7 |
1. Do something you've dreamt of doing before you were 10.
2. Get an education, not that phony career prep that passes for one.
3. Love something or someone and get hurt sufficiently in the process to experience what it is like to have lived. |
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12/20/2006 01:50:14 PM · #8 |
| swim in all the seas on earth - all of them! (that's actually one of my goals now:) |
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12/20/2006 01:50:31 PM · #9 |
1. Get over the idea that turning 30 is a life-altering experience in which you are suddenly going to be considered "old."
2. Develop an acquaintance with someone at least 2x older than you through volunteering for any sort of non-profit.
3. Read at least 2 of the novels you didn't read when you were in school.
4. Make yourself a journal of what it's like to be you so when you are actually old you can appreciate where you came from, what you thought and what you saw as important.
5. Begin (or steadily add to) a retirement savings.
6. Go someplace you think is difficult or dangerous to go. (Canada doesn't count.)
7. Begin to learn to play (or improve on your playing) of a musical instrument...kazoo, piano, voice, whatever.
8. Stop saying "I want to be..." and start saying "I am..."
9. Apologize in writing to 5 people from your past for things you wish you had never done. (Sending the letters is optional but encouraged.)
10. Try to give more than you receive this year.
Why? Because the best part of life is made up of other people, music and self-awareness.
11. Bump this thread on your next birthday and tell us what you did. |
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12/20/2006 01:52:57 PM · #10 |
1. Go on a Zip line 100ft up in the trees of Costa Rica!
2. Tandem skydive
3. Volunteer in a homeless shelter or take food to shut ins (Keeps you humble)
4. Sail the BVIs (British Virgin Islands)
5. Drive an extremely pricey car, (even if you have to rent one) --make sure it's a convertible!
6. Travel to Alaska
7. Eat something you'd NEVER even think of trying.
8. If you have a job that you KNOW you'd be good at, DO IT!
9. Watch the movie "The Pursuit of HAPPYness"
-- Quote from the movie, "If you want something, go get it. Period.
10. Do something nice for someone without their knowing...great feeling.
LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!! |
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12/20/2006 01:54:31 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Why does it matter if you do them before you're 30? It's not like you're suddenly over the hill and can't do everything anyway. |
It is a hill, a very steep hill. It is the time that you finally realise that you are more than ten years away from the time you were 19. It is the time when you realise that you are just as close to 60 as to the day when you were born. It is usually the time when the age difference with your dad becomes smaller than your actual age. (like he is 55 and I am 29, the difference is and always has been 24 years, but I am older than 24... Unlike when I was 19 and he was 45.... Stupid, but it psychologically makes a difference.) Becomming 30 years of age is terrible!
Only four months left. I am so depressed. :)
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12/20/2006 01:58:00 PM · #12 |
Here's a few you can try...
1. Learn to scuba dive. It opens up a whole new world.
2. Learn to surf. There's nothing more exciting and fun than riding a wave.
3. Jump out of an airplane (Note: Unless you're a very lucky person, you should use a parachute.)
4. Learn a new language. It'll give you more people to talk to.
5. Fall in love. It makes you do all sorts of stupid and wonderful things.
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12/20/2006 01:58:10 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Why does it matter if you do them before you're 30? It's not like you're suddenly over the hill and can't do everything anyway. |
It is a hill, a very steep hill. It is the time that you finally realise that you are more than ten years away from the time you were 19. It is the time when you realise that you are just as close to 60 as to the day when you were born. It is usually the time when the age difference with your dad becomes smaller than your actual age. (like he is 55 and I am 29, the difference is and always has been 24 years, but I am older than 24... Unlike when I was 19 and he was 45.... Stupid, but it psychologically makes a difference.) Becomming 30 years of age is terrible!
Only four months left. I am so depressed. :) |
Cheer up. My 30s were alot better than my 20s. My son was born the year I turned 40, so I get to start all over again with the toys!
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12/20/2006 01:58:15 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by KaDi:
1. Get over the idea that turning 30 is a life-altering experience in which you are suddenly going to be considered "old." |
Completely agree with this. I have more goals and a better purpose for life than I had through my twenties. Being thirty rocks!
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12/20/2006 01:58:20 PM · #15 |
Aw! Don't be sad...if you think you're depressed NOW, don't worry, you'll be depressed enough when you hit 50!
Message edited by author 2006-12-20 13:58:58. |
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12/20/2006 02:00:46 PM · #16 |
Another thought - instead of making a list of things you must do before you're 30, pick something big you've always wanted to do to celebrate being 30. Seriously, I like being in my 30s much better than my 20s. It seemed like a lot of pressure I never knew was there was lifted and I could finally just relax! I like being 31 even better than 30, actually. I hated 29 because no one believes you when you say you're 29 so I spent the entire year with people poking fun at the 29 thing. Thirty was nice because I felt great being able to just say I'm 30, and instead of being labeled an insecure liar (like with 29), I was labeled a self-confident and admirable woman instead for being so comfortable with it. Then 31 is the best so far because none of that weird 20s pressure is there, and after two significant birthdays in a row it's nice just to be 31 and not be the butt of jokes or worry about anything at all. Celebrate your age, don't mourn it.
As to what 31 looks like...
I'm hardly suffering ;-)
Message edited by author 2006-12-20 14:03:58.
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12/20/2006 02:06:23 PM · #17 |
Exactly, i feel the same way. i turned 29 in september and i was supposed to get married in May. I decided that he wasnt the guy for me after 6 yrs. Now i'm single, childless, and running out of eggs! It's very depressing when all of my friends are either married or already have children. Now all i have is my two cats, my career, and soon to be lonely nights. It was very hard to leave but I had to take the chance.
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Why does it matter if you do them before you're 30? It's not like you're suddenly over the hill and can't do everything anyway. |
It is a hill, a very steep hill. It is the time that you finally realise that you are more than ten years away from the time you were 19. It is the time when you realise that you are just as close to 60 as to the day when you were born. It is usually the time when the age difference with your dad becomes smaller than your actual age. (like he is 55 and I am 29, the difference is and always has been 24 years, but I am older than 24... Unlike when I was 19 and he was 45.... Stupid, but it psychologically makes a difference.) Becomming 30 years of age is terrible!
Only four months left. I am so depressed. :) |
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12/20/2006 02:11:48 PM · #18 |
Age shouldn't matter if you are doing what you want to be doing every year of your life.
The only reason getting old should be depressing is if you have unresolved regrets, in which case you should immediately fix them by saying the things you want to say to the people you want to say them to, and doing the things you want to do when and as often as you want to do them.
Do Not say "I can't afford it, I can't do it"
Ask "what do I want and HOW can I make it happen?"
The human mind is a brilliant thing, learn to use it, learn to expand it |
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12/20/2006 02:16:55 PM · #19 |
30 was easy
better question is "what have you done so far ?"
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12/20/2006 02:20:19 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Chinabun:
Exactly, i feel the same way. i turned 29 in september and i was supposed to get married in May. I decided that he wasnt the guy for me after 6 yrs. Now i'm single, childless, and running out of eggs! It's very depressing when all of my friends are either married or already have children. Now all i have is my two cats, my career, and soon to be lonely nights. It was very hard to leave but I had to take the chance.
Originally posted by Azrifel:
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Why does it matter if you do them before you're 30? It's not like you're suddenly over the hill and can't do everything anyway. |
It is a hill, a very steep hill. It is the time that you finally realise that you are more than ten years away from the time you were 19. It is the time when you realise that you are just as close to 60 as to the day when you were born. It is usually the time when the age difference with your dad becomes smaller than your actual age. (like he is 55 and I am 29, the difference is and always has been 24 years, but I am older than 24... Unlike when I was 19 and he was 45.... Stupid, but it psychologically makes a difference.) Becomming 30 years of age is terrible!
Only four months left. I am so depressed. :) |
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30 will be a huge relief when you get there and realize that everything you think is bad about it is nothing more than bad press. I am just as single and childless, and hey, I've got awhile - more than a decade - before worrying about that is really warranted. I appreciate my parents more and more as the psychological age gap closes. Your 30s is the perfect time to let go of the silliness of societal pressures - like being married with two kids before leaving your 20s - and realize what life is really like, and that you like it better that way anyway. ;-)
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12/20/2006 02:21:39 PM · #21 |
By term life insurance.
Once you turn 40, you are in a more expensive age group. |
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12/20/2006 02:29:16 PM · #22 |
We grow older by days and hours, not by years.
Age comes with the light of day and the dark of grief.
You learn of a friend's passing and in an instant are older than you ever imagined.
You fall in love and in the twinkling of your lover's eye become younger than before.
You fail and contemplate your destiny.
You succeed and feel immortal.
In remembering is youth and promise.
In forgetting liberation from old age. |
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12/20/2006 03:02:44 PM · #23 |
Become a member of the "Mile High Club"
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12/20/2006 03:14:21 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by Nobody:
By term life insurance.
Once you turn 40, you are in a more expensive age group. |
Start a retirement plan instead. |
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12/20/2006 03:36:43 PM · #25 |
All the things mentioned here sound like fun, and the retirement policy is sound advice. I turned 30 this year (infact I turn 31 on 10 Feb) and looking back, the only thing I regret of my life so far is the friends I've lost touch with over the years.
So, my advice - get in touch with all the friends you've lost touch with and arrange the biggest birthday party ever. In the long run, good friendships will endure long after the memories of having bungee jumped off of Bloukrans Bridge ( //www.eastcapetours.com/kloof.htm ) have faded. |
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