My bucket list: 100 things to do before dying
Have you ever considered filling a proper bucket list, with dreams, projects and some chimera?
I filled my own bucket list while traveling through Sri Lanka. I pinned a list of 100 things to do before dying, some of which are already achieved and many many dreams and goals I’m working to realize.
While I admired this panorama in Ella, thousands of miles from my everyday life, I gone far beyond the hundred points and today I’ve refined my list leaving only those wishes I realize are most important or simply have me smile.
My 100 things to do before I die bucket list
- Work in an opera house (a dream dating back some 35 years ago!) √
- Learn to play the piano √
- Travel from Genoa to Buenos Aires by boat, to try feeling the same emotions my mum had every year moving back to Italy for summer holidays
- Move to Paris √
- Stroll in the Forbidden City
- Visit Notre Dame at night √
- Chat with Riccardo Muti √
- Sleep in a luxury hotel √
- Sleep in a tree house √
- Sleep in an igloo
- See the “midnight sun” √
- Cross Mongolia on horseback
- Experience the transhumance in Montana along with cowboys √
- Move to New York
- Sleep in Mont Saint-Michel √
- Leave on a romantic sailing gateway √
- Travel from Moscow to Vladivostok with the Transiberian Railway
- Attend a performance from the backstage √
- Meditate together with Buddhist monks √
- Have a traditional bamboo tattoo done √
- Walk the Camino de Santiago
- Travel on the Orient Express
- Sail on the Nile
- Visit the Valley of the Kings in Egypt
- Getting to Petra on a purebred Arabian horse
- Sleep in the desert √
- Visit China, region by region
- Sail on the Mekong √
- Learn to surf √
- Travel along Route 66 on a convertible Cadillac
- Getting married in Las Vegas
- Slaloming down the Gran Risa √
- Eat sautée bugs in Asia √
- Sail across the oceans √
- Hike in Nepal
- Take the Tren de las Nubes √
- Swim with dolphins
- Get on a submarine √
- A launch with a parachute
- Cross Lapland on horseback √
- Attend the opening night at La Scala √
- Sleep in the Louvre
- Write for the National Geographic
- Write an opera libretto
- Work with great conductors √
- Become sommelier
- Visit Antarctica
- Sleep in a cabin by the lake in Alaska
- Visit Canada in winter
- Go on a safari in Africa √
- Play a game of polo √
- Go up the Amazon River
- Work with Argentinian gauchos √
- Dance tango properly!
- Visit Jane Austen’s England √
- Spend the summer in Cornwall
- Visit the Black Forest
- Climb to Macchu Picchu √
- Ride to the pyramids
- Visit Afghanistan
- Discover Angkor Wat at sunrise √
- Take part in an archaeological dig √
- Go around the world in 80 days following Phileas Foggs’ footsteps
- Catch sunrise in the jungle √
- Staying in Japan during the blooming of sakura
- Visit a movie set √
- Write a novel
- Take a trip in a hot air balloon
- Sail on Danube River √
- Read Tolstoy in its original language
- Build my own home √
- Sit on the couches of the Oval Office at the White House
- Adopt a baby
- Sleep in a lighthouse
- Find the courage to to go to India
- Learn how to prepare a yummy dulce de leche √
- Attend a course of traditional massage in northern Thailand √
- Attend the Boca Junior-River Plate derby with a winning River…
- Return to the Aeolian Islands, but on a sailing boat
- Visit the waterfalls of Iguazu √
- Visit Italy, region by region
- Learn to work terracotta
- Sleep in a castle in Scotland
- Attend opera rehearsals not being in charge of them
- Relive the two weeks of the Fallas in Valencia without having to put the alarm clock in the morning to go to work
- Chat with Fabrice Luchini
- Take a trip arranged by someone else than me
- Navigate through icebergs
- Wear a kimono respecting all the rules of makeup, hairstyle, behavior…
- Spend a few days in the tiny Indonesian island where my dad lived
- Sleep at La Mamounia in Marrakech
- Hold a koala
- Rebuild my family tree
- Learn Chinese
- Visit Google headquarters
- Visit St. Petersburg during the White Nights √
- Travel on a cargo ship
- Admire Genoa from the sea √
- Learn the art of falconry
- Go back to visit all the places I’ve been to on working trips and take my to to get to know them!
And you? What’s on your bucket list?
Have you ever tried to make a list like this? Let me know, but above all, do not live your dreams as thoughts to keep in a drawer!
I always dreamed big, but I also have always done everything to realize my dreams and that’s how I crowned some very important ones and then I reveal you a secret, dreams seem chimeras only until we keep them suspended between one thought and another… when we begin to analyze the path to follow in order to achieve them they become goals and projects and with the right determination they come true and sometimes we even realize that we had the wrong dream 😉
