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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

43 things I want to do in life

Out of sheer habit of searching for all answers on Google, I typed the million $ question in the search bar "What do I want to do in life?". Google was as reliable as ever and did give me answers. Lots of them. The most interesting of the results I found was a site called 43 things. Millions of people around the world have jotted down what they want to do in life.

Inspired by this and for the lack of anything better to do, I decided to make a list of as many things as I could think about that I wanted to do with my life.

So, here goes nothing:

  1. Learn at least 3 Non-Indian Languages - preferably French, Latin and Spanish
  2. Exercise regulary and get my weight down to 55
  3. Learn Swimming
  4. Write a book
  5. Learn to read and write Malayalam
  6. Learn to play a sport - maybe tennis or batminton - professionally
  7. Enroll for dance lessons
  8. Learn to play a musical instrument - Violin
  9. Travel to all parts of India in the next 5 years
  10. Do my MBA from ISB in the next 7 years
  11. Pass my FRM
  12. Get married
  13. Learn to cook like Mom
  14. Learn to drive a car
  15. Buy a car
  16. Donate every year to a charitable cause
  17. Buy a house
  18. Get an overseas holiday trip for mom and dad at least once
  19. Own business suits in 7 different colours - black, blue, beige, grey, brown, black pinstripe, grey pinstripe and matching shoes
  20. Start gardening
  21. Buy property in Kerala
  22. Retire by 40
  23. Start my own business / consulting / whatever - Be my own Boss
  24. Have a daughter (maybe 2)
  25. Learn to skate
  26. Learn to play chess (professionally)

mmmmm ----- this has been lying as a draft for a very long time. Maybe I'm not too ambitious. Or maybe I'm not too innovative or imaginative. Anyway, I have decided that this is all I want to do in life as of now.

In future... who knows the future? But changes in life may force this list to be amended to things like I want to live, I want to be a good human being, I want to be free.......

Maybe.....

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