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22 Things To Do Before Dying, Written By A 22 Year Old

Life is short, it's important to have goals and tasks you want to accomplish; you only have one life, what will you do with it?

Abby Betts

Jun 01, 2017

West Texas A&M University

22 Things To Do Before Dying, Written By A 22 Year Old

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A part of being human is wanting to accomplish tasks or goals. It can be anything from spending an entire day on the couch watching TV to spending an entire day hiking through a beautiful area to spending time with loved ones. As a 22 year old, I've comprised a list of goals/tasks that I want to accomplish before I die. These may be goals other 22 year old has or ones that anyone at any age has, but for right now, these are mine at this age. And who knows, maybe next year they will change!

Fall deeply in love
But first, and most importantly, find the deep love of God and understand it while understanding His deep love for me
Visit all seven continents - I may not be a scientist but I will find a way to Antarctica!
Have some beautiful kids
Travel with my family - a lot
Have not just a job, but a career that I love and enjoy going to daily
Continue the great relationships with my siblings and my children have close with their cousins.
Do something each year that terrifies me
Go skydiving or bungee jumping - so maybe that can be #8 that year, right?
Go a year without getting hurt - ha!
Take a girls trip with my closest gal pals
Eat something that scares me
Eat something I've always wanted to try
Live frugally for at least a year
Live to see my grandkids
Make a home
Road trip across the US
Backpack (or just travel) across Europe
Do something crazy
Go to at least five of the US' national parks (besides Palo Duro Canyon, which I love dearly.)
Love like there's no tomorrow
Live life fully and unconditionally for God.

These are in no particular order, partially because that would be difficult to rank them and partially because when in life does anything happen in the order you expected it to? If life did that, it'd be boring! You'd live expecting the expected instead of expecting the unexpected and where is the fun in that? I hope this list inspires some of you and I hope it encourages you and I also hope that if you have suggestions of fun, cool places, goals or tasks you want to accomplish that you will tell me so I can add them to my list!

"One day, you will wake up and there won't be anymore time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now." Paulo Coelho

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1. When he just wanted bacon from his George Foreman grill

2. When he had money (and Jan) issues

3. When he got upstaged at Phyllis' wedding

4. When he unintentionally saved Meredith from rabies

5. When he wore a "bisexual" suit

6. When he had to apologize to Jesus

7. When his GPS drove him into a lake

8. When he had to deal with Ryan as his boss

9. When he couldn't fulfill his most generous empty promise

10. When this happened

11. When he struggled with a X-Mas break up

12. When he had to defend his generosity

13. When he threw a classy Christmas party for Holly but she had a boyfriend

14. When he had to stand up to peer pressure

15. When Toby was "Toby-ish"

This isn't just for the single Pringles out there either, folks

Run Around Clanging Pots and Pans in Everyone's Face

Eat the Last Few Pigs in a Blanket

Pop Twelve White Grapes

Burn Something

Smash Things Against a Wall

Spontaneously Begin an Irish Jig

Call Your Mother

Throw a Coffee Table Out a Window

Sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the Top of Your Lungs

Do Some Squats

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Take a Shot

Time to be merry and bright.

"First Noel" by Leslie Odom, Jr

"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Kelly Clarkson

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home" by Michael Buble

"Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift

"The Christmas Song" by Josh Groban

"White Christmas" by Idina Menzel

"O Holy Night" by David Archuleta

"Believe" by Josh Groban

"Les cloches du hameau" by Celine Dion

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