I will be 30 at the end of 2008. What are the top 5 things I should have done by then?

Question

Bear in mind I have done all the usual, like go to University, I have a good job and a girlfriend etc. i want insipring ideas about important stuff to do. It can be to travel places, learn to do new things..... you get the idea.

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To give you an idea. The top 5 things i have already are:
1) Learn french
2) Learn to play chess
3) Write a screenplay
4) Run a marathon
5) Spend 3 months travelling in South America

Answer 1

Get married and have kids.

Answer 2

See all the beautiful subtle colours that are not just what some rare people could consider to be childish colours.
See some of the better colour combinations.
Try see outside the ordinary way people can often be seen to think and find the style, beauty and sophistication that can sometimes exist within ordinary things.
Look and notice things.
Don't just be taken in by the way people can often think but look at things in a way that would present a new world of possibilities.
Try to look at how words can be put together to form poetry and style and the shifting of conception that could reveal new depths in the form.
Remember when you were a child and your whole being seemed to be a receptor that was a sixth sense that could pick up on moods and atmosphere in situations and locations and try to regain that sense of wonder you felt.
Try to put across your sense of wonder at the extraordinary in th eordinary to other people so that they can at least see some of the joy in these things.

Answer 3

1. Backpack through Europe, South America, or Asia and experience a wide variety of cultures
2. Skydive
3. Road trip across America
4. Work in a rewarding career that makes you truly happy
5. Volunteer doing something where you will change someone's life for the better

Answer 4

You need to have gone travelling on your own for longer than 6 months.

You need to have had a threesome.

You need to have had to drive away from the police at high speed.

You need to have spent time in severe poverty for an extended period, just to put in perspective that you are 30 and have an average of 40 years left....but they are 30 and only have an average of 7 years left

I have done all these things (and lots more) and these are the ones that make you appreciate life more, or teach you some important lessons

Answer 5

1. own a car
2. get promoted in your job
3. take a vacation to explore asia and tropical islands(if you like traveling you will not regret India)
4. do bunjy jump or sky diving for experience
5. take some time and rewind your memories. review what you've learned in life for the past 29 years. have fun. then be prepared to take another step as an even more responsible adult.
6. appreciate and be thankful to your parents for bringing you up in this world and that you had became a fine adult and live a fine life.

Answer 6

1) Achieved world peace;
2) Saved your first million;
3) Single handedly saved the planet from extinction;
4) Won the Nobel prize for your contribution to alleviating the nasal seepage of sinus sufferers;
5) Became 'Time' person of the year.

Get the idea ! Go for it ! But keep your sense of humour and proportion.

Answer 7

Do some voluntary work
Take the Advanced Driving Test
Do the London to Brighton cycle ride
Reduce your carbon footprint by 50%
Stop being too intense and don't set so many goals

Answer 8

If you feel you are financially stable enough to do out of the ordinary things, then the thing to do is to go to big gatherings and celebrations, go to different counrties, try different foods, try a new hobby, write a book if you feel up to it, to add on to that; try big challenges. try a new thing with your girlfriend (I mean it, get creative, ask her what she would like to do). go to chocolate day in Racine county,Wisconsin,. Go to Rockafeller plaza. go to the shooting range,start a collection,try to visit a famous actors house and get their autograph. and last but not least, enjoy doing it, because if you are'nt having fun, then whats the point?

man...you still have an entire decade left before you should be looking back and saying how young you were back then and what crazy things you did. I am still young, but when I get to your age, I plan to get at least half of that list done.

Answer 9

See the Northern Lights
Visit Egypt and the Pyramids
Visit the Great Wall of China
Read all the classics (or as many as you can)
Run a marathon or a parachute jump
Learn a new language

Answer 10

get a job
move out of your mammas house
start shaving
finish school
have sex
Now seriously...
Figure out a career and begin it
start planning for your retirement
Enjoy all the spare time you have to the fullest
Cultivate the type of friendships that will last
Never stop learning

Answer 11

Seems to me that if you consider having a girlfriend, who I assume loves you, going to university and a good job the usual things, you need to look at your value system.
You're taking for granted an awful lot, and should look at what you have compared to other people before you start thinking about keeping yourself entertained.