Before I die, I want to…

Today I read an interesting news, it was all about the woman who lost her beloved friend in a day, then she felt full of grief and struggled to live out her days. She thought of everything, of death which brought clarity to her life, helped her know more about herself and what mattered most to her life. Then she wondered if other persons thought the same like her, went through the same truggle to maintain perspective amid daily grind. With helps from her friends, she turned an abandoned house nearby in New Orleans into a huge chalkboard and offered every people who was passing by to write something there, filling blanks with their aspirations. Soon, the wall was covered by responses from a lot of people. They wrote about their wishes and hopes of well being, love, help, travel, family…Soon she received requests from enthusiasm persons from all over the world. She and her partners from TED (Ideas worth spreading) has helped them to build a wall in their communities. Up to now, more than 4000 walls was created in over 60 countries and in 25 languages.

After reading this news, I'm thinking about myself, what is the most important things in my life, what I really want to do before I die. Then here are some of them, not in special order.
Raise my good kids
Take care of my parents
Visit Europe
Learn Italian
Learn to play guitar
Be fluent in English
Write a book
Come to see my online best friend
Keep books my company till the end
Have a true friend for my whole life

And what about you? What do you want to do...

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  • I love the way of your thinking...:-)

  • Nishan, your kind words always encourage me to go on, thanks so much.

  • Hi Nawa, we always have dreams about "many impossible things", some of them are just our fantasies forever, but others would be able turn into reality. Who knows? At least you can dream... LOL. As about who is older, both of us know it well, right?

  • Haha... O.K. I'll let you know my friend :)
  • Oh that's a good result (50/50), haha.  

    2. It's an awesome photo, that's actually a great moment, could you tell me more about this :) (How did you made it for example)

    6. When I was a little girl, I used to come to visit my grand mother in the village and in summer night, all of kids were lying on the terrace to see stars glowing in the sky and count as many as possible till we felt asleep... It is very long long time ago, my grand mother passed away...

    4. I wish to take my kids there one day, you are right, it's the dream land of all  kids (and me too)

    5. I love kittens and puppies and rabbit... anyways I have no time for  them :(

    1. Well I like this pic very much. It's so emotional and inspirational to me. Maybe am I old enough? ;)

    3. Hehe all kinds of car makes me sick, so I never dream of it.

  • Haha.. You only guess right 2 and 6 of the ones I made.

    2- It's an indescribable feeling. Time seems to be stopped. But you must be really in love.
    6- I use to sleep some Summer nights on my house's terrace with no light nor any noise, then I think to myself how insignificant we are in universe and make me evade my problems.

    The other ones are 4 and 5
    4- I visited Disney in Paris with my two sons and also saw the one in Orlando. Yes, every child in the world should visit it at least once a life.
    5- Last pet I adopted was a small rabit, well it was bought.

    So 1 and 3 have not been done yet,
    1- Mmmm... I think I'm not too old yet :)
    3- lol... O.K. I'll write down on things to do. When I'll get it I'll let you know :D

    P.S. I've been several times in Caribe but haven't sleept yet on the beach.
  • Im so sorry to hear about your friend. But  our loss make us more appreciate all what we have in life and I know you have been doing that now.

    Wow, wow, wow... what a surpringsing coincidence. Estanis, I dont know what to say about those pictures, they are really amazing and inspirable. You know, I chose those from hundreds of photos in the internet,and I downloaded around 30 photos. Hear are just few of them. Let me guess which are made by you 1,2,3,6, am I right? ;)) You are great.

    Btw could you please show me how is "sunset lying on a Caribbean Island beach" (hope you made this photo before)

  • Some years ago I lost my best friend I ever had, I had never been so shocked and for a long time I was thinking to myself about the things he couldn't do in life. Since then I try to enjoy life as good as possible (although I don't always get it) so now I like to remember what things I'd like to do before die:
    Visit Japan,
    Attend to a Black Eyed Peas concert,
    Be fluent in English,
    See my grandchild,
    Watch a sunset lying on a Caribbean island beach...
    Btw I've done four of the six pictures you've put in your blog :D
  • Thank you for your encouragement, Mahmoud, nice to see you here after long time...

  • Nice to see you again, dear friend, and thank you so much for your comment.

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