Reasons why I can’t die just yet

Last night, I was rummaging through old stuff (you know, old diaries, notebooks, scrapbooking materials, planners, etc) and found something amusing and interesting. You see, when I was young, I listed down 25 things I wanted to do before I die [AOL Vice Chair Ted Leonsis recommends 101 things, but I guess the number was too big for my young mind then]. Some were already accomplished, some were not. And I realized that I had to update some because I had accomplished them from the last time I put on check marks, which was in 1997. I am listing the list in its original words, so pardon if some are a bit “out of this world” (hey, I was only 15 years old at that time!).

25 things I want to do before I die (written April 4, 1994)

 Have a happy family [I’ve always had a happy family]

Write a book [better start on this one]

Give a recollection

Give a speech before an audience [I don’t think the the time I read the responsorial spalm in a mass counts]

Bunjee jump and rapel

Live with my friends in a condo [it was more like an apartment]

Have a beautiful body [I mean,sometime in my life, I believe already achieved this, although not the “great” body ala J. Lo or jessica Alba, but still passable]

Make my hair beautiful [still working on this one]

Sing or dance in an event

Have a good job

Travel a lot [ok, maybe not yet “a lot”, buy I can’t complain. I’ve been to a lot of places already.]

Have a nice, two-story house with a garden full of flowers

Be a detective for a certain case [poink!]

Write for a newspaper or magazine [I think the letter I wrote that got published in Inquirer would count; after all, the columnist called it a “masterpiece”]

Be a psychiatrist [although I act like one when friends have problems]

Own a beach house [yeah right!]

Learn to drive [I did, the following year]

Give my children good and happy lives [we’ll find out when Princess Wendy grows up]

Meet Wil Wheaton [huh?]

Meet Pope John Paul II [I’ll count seeing Pope Benedict XVI in Rome as a check on this one]

Have my own ATM

Bath and sing in the rain

Take many pictures and make a scrapbook of my life [the scrapbook will have to wait]

To die without sins [I hope I don’t put check in this one soon]

To die beautiful [namili pa…I will, if I would have the choice]

[Those in italics mean check marks.]

Looking at the list now, some seem trivial and to be not on the top of my priorities anymore (I mean, Wil Wheaton?). But the general idea is still there: I have to live my life to the fullest.

This list has given me more reasons why I can’t die just yet. I have so much to do!

:)