While rummaging through my closet earlier, I found a blank copy of Richard Horne’s 101 Things To Do Before You Die amongst a number of other books.
- Write a best-seller
- Swim with:
- sharks
- whales
- dolphins
- tropical fish
- Win an award, trophy or prize
- Catch a fish with your bare hands
- Make a discovery
- Throw a house party when your parents are out
- Be part of a threesome
- Realize your childhood dream
- Learn that instrument
- Leave your mark in graffiti
- Storm chase a tornado
- Get a piece of art into an exhibition
- Meet someone with your own name
- Ride the world’s biggest roller coasters
- Stage dive or crowd surf
- Get into the Guinness Book of World Records
- Own a pointless collection
- Study the Kama Sutra and put theory into practice
- Master poker and win big in a casino
- Get backstage and get off with a band member
- Be a human guinea pig
- Go up in a hot air balloon
- Get arrested
- See a space shuttle launch
- Capture the moment in an award-winning photograph
- Bungee jump
- See an erupting volcano
- Skydive
- Meet your idol
- Stay in the best suite in a five-star hotel
- Experience weightlessness
- See the aurora borealis
- Score a hole in one
- Design your own cocktail
- Play a part in your favorite TV show
- Visit every country
- Make a fire without matches
- See these animals in the wild:
- panda
- rhino
- hippo
- grizzly bear
- elephant
- hummingbird
- giraffe
- koala
- manatee
- gorilla
- lion
- monkey
- penguin
- kangaroo
- tiger
- crocodile
- orangutan
- eagle
- polar bear
- coelacanth
- See a dog race
- Get a free upgrade on a plane
- Be friends with your ex
- Hit your targets
- Throw a dart into a map and travel where it lands
- Attend a film premier
- Do a runner from a fancy restaurant
- Scuba dive
- Milk a cow
- Be present when your country wins the World Cup
- See both eclipses
- solar
- lunar
- Write your name over a star on the Walk of Fame
- Learn another language
- Read the greatest books ever written
- Complete a coast-to-coast road trip across America
- Make at least one huge purchase you can’t afford
- Score the winning goal/try/basket
- Crash an A-list party
- See the all-time greatest films
- Live in the place you love
- Leave a job you hate
- Take part in a police lineup
- Get away with the perfect practical joke or hoax
- Join the mile high club
- Make the front page of a national newspaper
- Drive a car at top speed
- Shout “drinks are on me!” at a pub/bar
- Be part of a flash mob
- Visit one of the world’s most famous sights
- Save someone’s life
- In various languages, learn to:
- say hello
- goodbye
- please and thank you
- order beer
- swear
- insults
- Invent a word that makes it into the dictionary
- Have adventurous sex
- Have enough money to do all of the things on this list
- Stand on the international date line
- Learn to fly a plane
- Get a tattoo and/or piercing
- Invent something
- Learn astronomy and read the night sky
- Drink a vintage wine
- Answer a personal ad
- Spend Christmas on the beach
- Get barred from a pub or bar
- Build your own house
- Skinny dip at midnight
- Sell all your junk on eBay and make a profit
- Visit one of the world’s tallest buildings
- Run a marathon
- Conquer your fear
- Get married unusually
- Cook a meal for yourself
- Join the 16-mile high club
- Create a cult website
- Own an original work of art
- Complete the Monopoly board pub crawl
- Get something named after you
- Get revenge
- Be an extra in a film
- Live out of a van
- Go on a demonstration
- Confess
- Reach 100 years of age
- Continue your gene pool