100 things to do before you die

Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.

Swim with a dolphin.

Skydive.

Have your portrait painted.

Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.

Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.

Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

Be an extra in a film.

Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.

Make love on a forest floor.

Make love on a train.

Learn to rollerblade.

Own a room with a view.

Brew your own beer.

Learn how to take a compliment.

Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.

Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.

Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.

Be a member of the audience in a TV show.

Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.

Send a message in a bottle.

Ride a camel into the desert.

Get to know your neighbors.

Plant a tree.

Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.

Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.

Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.

Learn to ballroom dance properly.

Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.

Be the boss.

Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.

Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

Sit on a jury.

Write the novel you know you have inside you.

Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.

Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).

Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.

Be someone's mentor.

Shower in a waterfall.

Ask for a raise.

Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.

Teach someone illiterate to read.

Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.

Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.

See a lunar eclipse.

Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.

Experience weightlessness.

Sing a great song in front of an audience.

Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.

Drive across America from coast to coast.

Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.

Write your will.

Sleep under the stars.

Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.

Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

Go wild in Rio during Carnival.

Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

Forgive your parents.

Learn to juggle with three balls.

Drive the Autobahn.

Find a job you love.

Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.

Overcome your fear of failure.

Raft through the Grand Canyon.

Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.

Grow a garden.

Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.

Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.

Accept yourself for who you are.

Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Go up in a hot-air balloon.

Attend one really huge rock concert.

Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.

Give to a charity -- anonymously.

Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.

Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.

Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.

Fart in a crowded space.

Make love on the kitchen floor.

Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.

Create your own web site.

Visit the Holy Land.

Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

Create your Family Tree.

Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.

Make a hole-in-one.

Ski a double-black diamond run.

Learn to bartend.

Run a marathon.

Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.

Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.