Reasons why I can’t die just yet

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Reasons why I can’t die just yet

Saturday, November 8, 2008

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!

Posted by kumarenggrace at 12:30 pm | permalink

Previous Comments

A good list coming from the then 15-year old gal! This reminds of Bucket List movie. I wonder what I would have had written if I made when I was a mid teener. =)

Posted by witsandnuts at November 8, 2008, 7:39 pm

waaa ate i looove this entry sana i could have a copy nung letter na naipublished sa inquirer wala akong ganyang list ate sana i had one ang saya kasi balikan gudnyt po

Posted by yeine at November 8, 2008, 8:24 pm

wits, I didn’t know what made me do it. I hope I was into the “carpe diem thing” than the “death” aspect.

yeine, kakahiya eh…it’s actually nothing! And you can make one anytime….nice to have one so you will have goals.

Posted by kumarenggrace at November 8, 2008, 10:25 pm

haha the question i was enthusiastic to ask you was inadvertently answered.. you were 15 in 1994 huh.. that makes you … … … mmm perhaps i could use a scientific calculator. will get back to you later haha.

Posted by kooonin at November 9, 2008, 12:54 am

hahaha! panalo naman your list! but this one tops my list:

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

that cracked me up…your hirit ah, not your wish

Posted by maidapaypay at November 9, 2008, 2:09 am

Work it my friend ahihi… Goodluck and wishing you all the best!

Posted by jetty at November 9, 2008, 6:36 am

koonin, should I call you kuya na rin?

mai, I don’t know what I was thinking then… ewan ko ba!

jetty, still working on it.

Posted by kumarenggrace at November 9, 2008, 8:32 am

to live is a wonderful thing.

Posted by mordsith at November 9, 2008, 6:30 pm

I also made a list of the 100 things I want to do/achieve in life when I was 20, funny because I can’t remember a single item I’ve put in that list, doesn’t matter I guess, I never had the patience to work on them anyway.
Eto ang panalo: “To die without sins.”

Posted by wosamia at November 11, 2008, 7:36 pm

like ko yung “to die beautiful”, which I also plan to do. di ba maganda isipin na nakaburol ka at maganda ang tingin sa mga tao sa bangkay mo? parang it is a statement that you have lived your life well. bigats!

who’s will wheaton? :p

Posted by Edik at November 13, 2008, 9:57 am

Edik, si wil wheaton ay isa sa mga bida sa Toy Soldiers, not the cartoon. The one with Sean Astin, wherein their school was held hostage.

Posted by kumarenggrace at November 20, 2008, 11:11 am

i didn’t know toy soldiers was made into a movie!!! i loved the book so much, i read it over and over and over again when i was younger!

nakakatuwa yung list mo, especially yung to die beautiful. hehe.

Posted by odette at November 21, 2008, 11:17 pm

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