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Wed 9 Nov, 2005 08:43 am
The song "Do You Realize" was hidden on my computer somewhere and a week or so ago I found it and listened to it.
These words hit me in a funny way because recently I lost someone who was still quite young:
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
I thought about the inevitable fact that someday I will die, with or without having experienced the world and everything in it and I realized that I have to start NOW and work towards the things I have always wanted. I've always wanted to visit Scotland.
I've always wanted to learn to play the piano.
I've always wanted to write a novel and have it in print.
I've always wanted to be able to run a mile without wanting to die.
Just a few of the things I want in this life and I haven't even started on my list.
What's on your life list? What do you want to do before you die? It's an inevitable fact of life that we will all grow old and we will all die. It's the time between birth and death that matters and I am ready to make it count. How about you?
That is a very hard question, Bella.
Just a few years ago my list would have been so totally different than the one I'd write today. Things I thought I wanted, and wanted to do, don't mean much anymore. Things I thought I never wanted mean everything.
Right now the only thing on my life list is to see the adoption of Mo finalized.
I would like to be immortalized in art(in a traditional talented way, not cut in half and displayed in phormaldahyde)
And I would like to hug a lion, get lost in his mane.
Boomer, that is a very good life list. And you will see it happen! I know it!
MG, you are a lot like me. I want "weird" things. Like riding an elephant. Or having a mastiff to love and take care of. I also want to make a quilt to pass down so that my family will have something from me 200 years from now. I want to put together a book for them so that they know how live was for me.
Somebody mentioned a life book and i thought it was a wonderful idea.Id like to do one although my life is quite dull.I also cant see me having kids so agian, kinda pointless.But Im sur il be an auntie one day so they may be interested.
Definately make a quilt, that would be lovely, sentimental and practical.
Hmmm... I going to have to think about this a little. However, I now know that first thing on my list will be that I want to see a post from Boomer saying the adoption is finalized.
i'd love to be cut in hal and displayed in formaldahyde
after i'm dead of course
that can be arranged djj.....that can be arranged.
I have never thought of a life list.
but as it stands right now my life list would be to watch Jillian grow. See her marry , and maybe have kids of her own.
To go to Guam
Maybe even Africa
I'm a slightly more than casual birder, so my life list is tucked in my birding book <and needs more work>.
Ditto what boomerang and shewolf said. Today I cannot really think of anything that is that important on my list except just to see my children grow up and be happy, responsible (at least some what) and some what stable adults. Not that I want them to grow up fast - far from it. However, the only thing that is so important to me that I feel I must do before I die is to make sure my children are all set and don't need me any longer.
Anything else is just fluff.
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