Life List
A man without dreams is a man without future. Translating dreams into goals for yourself and struggling to achieve those goals is what makes life worth living. That’s why I created this Life List: 48 objectives that I want to achieve in my lifetime.
1) Have kids.
2) Go on a road trip by car.
3) Go on a holiday by boat.
4) Go to a tropical beach and drink milk out of a coconut.
5) Plan a trip without telling anyone and just send a postcard when I get there.
6) Visit the origin of my family name: the village of Sohier.
7) Set foot on all 7 continents.
8) Drive on route 66.
9) Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
10) Go on a road trip by motorcycle.
11) Go to a mountain lake, rent a rowboat and go from one side to the other and back again.
12) Take a novel with real places in it and visit those places according to the story.
13) Spend a traditional Christmas in a wooden chalet with lots of friends/ family.
14) Taste the world: Eat/ drink all kinds of food/ beverages from around the world, including but limited to:
- Some classic fish and chips (UK).
- The 20 ‘best’ cheeses and the wines (France).
- A triple whopper at a Burger king and a bucket of KFC (USA).
- A shot of vodka and bjorst (Russia).
- Couscous (North Africa).
- German beer and Bratwurst (Germany).
- …
15) Rent a room in an ‘extraordinary’ hotel.
16) Live in another country for a while.
17) Have a spiritual retreat in a monastery.
18) Walk a mountain pass all by myself.
19) Learn to speak German fluently.
20) Grow a goatee.
21) Learn to fill in my tax forms all by myself.
22) Make a lifelong enemy.
Maybe a bit strange, but every single person on this planet has at least one person he/ she absolutely can’t stand. Not only is it very relaxing to know there is at least one person you can be incredibly rude to without consequence, but your enemy will also drive you to become better and better at what you do. After all, you want to be better than your arch rival, no?
23) Learn to cook.
24) Graduate and keep learning.
25) Regularly donate to ‘SOS kinderdorpen’ OR sponsor a child.
26) Plant a tree.
27) Own a “green” car.
28) Buy something old and broken and give it a second life as something useful.
29) Buy/ build my very own house and make it exactly how I want it.
30) Fly in a balloon.
31) Taste as many different brands of beer as I can and make a top 10.
32) Go shooting.
33) Go to a grand fancy classical concert.
34) Eat a meal good and grand enough to be my last and pretend like it *will* be my last.
35) Build my own computer.
36) Have chickens and give them silly names.
37) Dodentocht or something equivalent.
38) Make both lateral and vertical career movements.
39) Hold a monkey.
40) Buy some fancy hype gadget (e.g. iPhone) as soon as possible, just to be able to say I was one of the first to have it.
41) Get a big hammer and turn something big and somewhat solid into a pile of rubble.
42) Get myself an awesome, super expensive suit which I will reserve for the most special occasions.
43) Get some friends together and pull a big prank.
44) Find this one painting/ photograph that appeals to me like no other and hang that somewhere where I can look at it often.
45) Be someone’s mentor for a while.
46) Say at least one thing to at least one person in such a way that my words will stay with him/ her for the rest of his/ her life.
47) When this list is nearing completion, I need to make it larger and more ambitious.
48) When I die, I must have done at least one thing I can be utterly proud of.