Recently, I've been thinking to myself about what I want to do in life. Big subject, I know. But for me, and those who know me, I've always been focused on my future career, a path with which has caused me some frustration and confusion as time as gone on. I have ideas of what I want to do, and I've grown up thinking that the way to go was a straight 'school, sixth form, uni,' kinda deal.Then that's it. It would be time to go straight onto that all important first step of my professional life. How wrong and naive I was. As part of what the media have dubbed 'The Lost Generation'due to the continually rolling recession, my path to my dream future job , like many other people I know, is a case of wandering with your arms out in front of you in thick cloud rather than being able to see it in the horizon. Even an aspiration such as living in your own place out of university is seemingly hard now. So I did what quite a lot of young people are doing now. I went travelling. A dear friend of mine wisely told me that life is about living for the moment, and it's something that has stayed with me. I've been so caught up worrying what's going to happen for me in a year or two time, that I forgot to take in what's happening right now and what moments I would like to live in and have to look back on. So I decided to compile a list of things that I would like to do in my life at some point. Some of the things may seem a little silly, but it's things I want to do or try. Yes, a job is still important to me and obviously I will need one to fund some of my ambitions and who knows what will happen in my future.But whatever it is, I've now learnt to be quite happy that I don't know what my future holds, and to appreciate moments more. So this is what I would like to see happen in my life. I plan to have 100 things down, but am only half way done so far. I'm sure I'll add more as time goes on.
1. Walk through Central Park during Autumn
2. Own an old film camera and use a darkroom again
3. Live in my own apartment
4. Go to Berlin
5. See Bon Iver in concert
6. White water rafting
7.See the Northen Lights
8. Get married (which won't happen for a long time though!)
9. Have an article or short story published
10. Live in Bristol
11. See my friends from camp again
12. Climb a mountain
13. Do something sponsered for charity
14. Meet Ewan McGregor (If only!)
15. Own my own cat
16. Read all of the 100 greatest novels of all time (according to The Guardian)
17. Take a photography course
18. Go to the Isle of Skye.
19. Go snowboarding again with my cousin Dani
20. Learn how to make jewellery
21. Grow my hair really long (I've been prone to having it cut short due to impatience)
22. Volunteer at home
23. Volunteer abroad
24. Own a bike with a basket
25. Be a bridesmaid (I had a chance once but couldn't because of my A Levels being on during the time of the wedding)
26. Watch every single Alfred Hitchcock film
27. Bake at least one of the each dessert ( Lemon meringue is off the list)
28. Get another tattoo
29. Slow dance with a loved one (I'm a romantic fool)
30. Go sailing
31. Go to the Rose Theatre and watch a Shakespeare play
32. Learn Origami
33. Go whale watching
34. Own a pair of Dr.Martins
35. Grow my own watermelons on my parents allotment
36. Go away somewhere with Laura, my closest friend from university
37. Learn how to blow glass
38. Go for a walk on a beach on a winter's day
39. Backpack across Europe
40. Go to St David's with my friends for another camping trip
41. Star gaze on a beach
42. Go hiking
43. Improve my guitar playing skills
44. Go to the Relentless Freeze Festival in London
45. Be a 'morning person'
46. Go to a Vivian Maier photography exhibition
47. Go Ice skating (albeit I am terrible considering I can't even walk properly on pavement as it is)
48. Sky-dive (I'm reluctantly putting this on the list as I'm a bit scared of heights, but it's definitely something I would like to experience)
49.Go backstage at a gig/concert
50. Keep surfing
51. Go scuba diving again
52. Spin a globe and go to the country my finger lands on (if circumstantially possible)
53. Go to a fashion show
54.Visit English heritage sights
55. Crowd Surf at a gig or festival
56. Go to a music festival abroad (Bennicassim, Coachella)
57. Learn how to wakeboard
58. Go on a night out with all my sixth form friends. (It's hard now everyone is doing their own thing)
59. Take an art class
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