25 is kind of ominous. It is the beginning of old age. I have 18 days of youth left. I googled 25 things to do before you turn 25 and this is one of the lists I found. Apparently being boring is a pre-requisite for turning 25.
1. Hang curtains in your bedroom.-check
2. Become friends with someone you meet in unusual circumstances.
3. Make your own Halloween costume.-check
4. Go to a concert/movie/restaurant alone.-check
5. Open a Roth-IRA account.-I may have one of these through
6. Own stock in a company you believe in.-I think I owned stock when I was like 12, do I still own that Dad? I think the company may have bottomed out. I believe in Coca-Cola, maybe I should buy stock in that.
7. Read The Iliad.- I may have read parts of this but it will not be read by the time I turn 25, I can promise you that.
8. Start a blog.-check
9. Join a professional organization.-no thanks.
10. Go on a spur-of-the-moment, weekend trip to a foreign city.- Does Canada count?
11. Attend a poetry reading.- I would if I thought it was even remotely possible to get Jackson to agree to this, just so I could watch him squirm.
12. Go to a music festival.- I have kind of done this. Not really.
13. Learn to dance.- This is just not going to happen, anyone who has seen me try and keep a beat knows why.
14. Take a road trip with friends.- you know I don't think I have ever done this. I am even more boring than this list!
15. Get paid to do something you like.- see me laughing right now.
16. Do some sort of adventure/adrenaline activity.- I generally equate adrenaline with death defying stunts, so no thanks. As for adventure... I will have to think harder on this one.
17. Take a course on something you’re interested in.- done and done.
18. Regularly read a newspaper/magazine/blog.- check
19. Be recognized for something or at somewhere.- isn't it kind of strange if you have to try to be recognized for something?
20. Have business cards.-check, although I have never used them.
21. Cook dinner for a friend.- check
22. Win something. Big or small.-check
23. Start a new hobby after college.-check
24. Pick up the tab for no good reason.- I tried to do this the other day, kind of.
25. Be irresponsible. It’s allowed sometimes.- always.
I think I need to find a better list of 25 things to do before 25, this one is kind of depressing.
I think I need to find a better list of 25 things to do before 25, this one is kind of depressing.
I'll help you create a better list:
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2. triple your carbon footprint.
3. sneak into a white house dinner.
4. at church bear your testimony and tell the congregation you learned your testimony in Korean, then just make up noises as you go.
5. make someone vote a person you are with off of a fictions island.
6. sign up to run a marathon, but don’t really run it, just pour some water on yourself so you nice and look sweaty, pin the number on, and take pictures of yourself at the finish line and post those picture on your blog.
7. when you’re at a restaurant and your server asks if you would like a refill, say “no thanks, i’d like to just sit here thirsty and keep eating, then hopefully food will get stuck in my throat and I won’t be able to wash it down, that’d be great, thanks.”
8. make vegetarians feel bad for not being vegan.
I’ll keep thinking?