Wants list

[myz_lilith]

I said at the start of my holiday that i had all the time to do whatever I wanted, I just needed to figure out ~what~ I wanted.

So I did.

I want to visit Japan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brazil, Morocco, Russia, Norway, Italy, Canada, a Greek island, a ghost town
I want to ride a galloping horse, on an elephant, ia helicopter, aross America on the back of a Harley, to ride off into the sunset
I want to fall so far it feels like flying
I want to walk across the border
I want to win a race across a city
I want to invent a cocktail, walk into a bar, and see someone order it by name
I want to set foot on every continent
I want to navigate across an ocean
I want to define a word so perfectly that its meaning changes
I want to design a bridge, and build it myself to cross a stream
I want to row between two islands
I want to eat something that I killed myself
I want to ice skate on a frozen lake
I want to keep hold of my worst memories, and lose the merely bad ones
I want to secretly follow someone home
I want to lay a foundation stone
I want to carve an ice sculpture using a chainsaw
I want to meet someone who has never heard of the UK
I want to create something that you'll forget about until it turns up in your dream in thirty years time
I want to dig until I find water
I want to wrap it in words until it's mine
I want to find the perfect hiding place and never have to use it
I want a police escort
I want to score a bullseye with the first dart
I want to wear something dreadful and make it look good
I want an electric blue violin
I want to paint a photo-realistic sky full of clouds without referring to a photograph
I want to draw a picture of an imaginary number
I want a window that looks out over somewhere else
I want a blue hairdye that never fades
I want to pull out a note at random and say 'keep the change'
I want to walk in a crowd 50,000 strong
I want to build a road in the wilderness
I want to memorise a poem
I want to change the course of a river
I want to wake up in a desert, in a jungle, in a place where I need an interpreter just to get by, in a different continent to the one I fell asleep in
I want to abseil down a building
I want someone to change my mind with a logical argument, with beauty, with a blow, with a bare-faced lie
I want to speak a language I've never heard of, in a televised debate, from behind the curtain
I want to wash my hair in a waterfall
I want to completely obliterate something with explosives
I want to drive on a skidpan, across the world's highest bridge, on a racetrack, in a rally, at the speed of sound, a tank
I want to walk on burning coals, along the top of walls, through freezing surf on a hot summer's day, in someone else's footsteps in deep snow, in space
I want to scare you so badly that you don't dare leave me
I want to be the good guy
I want to read grafitti scrawled across the moon (and for it to be beautiful)
I want to hear a language that's been dead for 4000 years
I want to hear somebody's entire life story in one sitting
I want to send a banana through the post
I want to send a love letter to a stranger, completely at random, and mean it
I want to see a falling star, the Northern lights, the green flash at sunset, an iceberg calving, two sunrises in the same day, the Spanish people towers, orangutans in the wild, new patterns in the stars
I want to find something that's fallen from space
I want to fuck someone in a penthouse, on a beach, in the back of a vintage American car, in the heart of a thunderstorm, in the middle of the ocean
I want to create someone you feel you already know
I want to smash a window (on purpose)
I want to spend 24hours in total darkness
I want to travel the world for a year and return with a single perfect memory that can't be put into words
I want to invent a city you wish you lived in
I want to build a huge tall wooden tower, and burn it to the ground
I want to find the third side of the question
I want to have perfect recall of the conversations in my head so I don't have to keep holding them over and over again
I want to miss you when you're gone
I want to grow a sunflower at least 6 foot tall
I want to invent a new alphabet
I want to learn to juggle
I want to taste fugu
I want to paint this room a different colour every day
I want to get two people that never should have fallen out talking again
I want an invisible tattoo that only I know is there
I want to leave you speechless
I want to be the one that solves the mystery
I want to be perfect until it gets boring
I want to never really know if I've won the argument
I want to help an old lady across a busy road
I want a toaster that answers back
I want to know you better than you know me
I want the painting in the attic to stay young and beautiful
I want to brake inches from the line
I want to be halfway up the mountain when the sun sets
I want the laughter to be genuine
I want the world to love me but I don't want to need it to
I want to paint a canvas so large that the other end out of sight
I want this on a t-shirt
I want to push the cliche full circle
I want to change my mind tomorrow
I want a dog
I want to finally decide on a tattoo design
I want to remember the recipe when I've been making it up as I go along
I want to dance an elaborate formal dance with a perfect stranger and not put a foot wrong
I want the drawing to be better than real life
I want to be paid what I'm worth
I want to fly first class
I want to learn Latin, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, German, Italian, Python
I want to make you cry
I want to surprise myself
I want to find my balancing point between words and pictures
I want a beautiful blade
I want to swim out of sight of the shore
I want to see a spiral galaxy through a telescope
I want flying lessons
I want you to beg me to tell you the rest of the story
I want to put it all on black. Or maybe red
I want to release a chinese fire lantern
I want to escape through a real secret passage
I want to invent a new variety of soup
I want to watch a total solar eclipse
I want to cut down a tree
I want to be worth my weight in gold
I want to learn to waltz
I want to send a message in a bottle
I want to shoot cans in the desert
I want to sing in tune
I want to produce an advert that isn't actually selling anything
I want eight costume changes
I want diplomatic immunity
I want to watch without being seen
I want to skim a stone and watch it bounce twelve times
I want a piano
I want to stay still long enough to catch up
I want the world to be more like the one in my head
I want to bribe someone
I want to seed a cloud
I want your list

All things I've never done, or at least not done ~properly~.

Not metaphors.

Just the seeds of adventures waiting to happen.

Comments

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pyromancer_/]

I want to ride a galloping horse, on an elephant, in a helicopter, aross America

Now that's an image and a half! :-)


Seriously, fantastic post! Agree with most of it (well, not the fuck bit, that's not for me, but I'm sure I could dream up an alternative!). To really "do stuff". That's what life is about.

I may have to steal your list!

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

Or write your own - you'd be surprised what you dig up when you get going...

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

See? So not only will it be a personal goal achieved, I'll also be forwarding the evolutionary aspirations of mankind!

(If it ultimately leads to light sabres and encounters with strangely humanoid aliens and faster than life travel it would also help towards the I want the world to be more like the one in my head one.)

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

"I want to sing in tune"

mis-read as tuna...

[myz-lilith.livejournal.com]

Knowing my singing, tuna may be far more technically viable!