Things I want to do before turning 40

There is a famous SRK dialogue :- ‘hum ek baar jeete hai, ek baar marte hai’ This actually goes on to mean a different thing but I just like to focus on this part. Life without regrets is not possible..all we can do is try to minimise it as much as possible. This is my effort of doing exactly that.

1. Cycle to Europe from India through Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal. Will be trying to explore all the countries as much as possible.

2. Experience Aurora, because watching is too small a term for this phenomenon. One of my first memory of reading an encyclopedia was seeing a photo of Aurora and being spellbound by it
3. Learn how to fly a plane. I had no idea it is this simple. There are flying classes you can take in Bangalore!!
4. Volunteer for Greenpeace , a childhood dream
5. Step foot on every continent on Earth. All others will anyway happen, so this is other words is stepping foot on Antarctica 🌎
6. Get certified for solo skydiving and then jump from at least 16000 feet without assistance.
7. Live in Igloo for a few days
8. Visit Bhutan and stay with monks for a month
9. Save a life
10. Fund education of 10 kids in the family first and at least 100 overall
11. Start a Social Venture
12. Cliff jump from at least 100 feet
13. Hug a Panda 😍
14. Visit Jerusalem, the birthplace of 3 religions
15. Invent something
16. Make money trading in stock market
17. Visit Ireland , the country that has always fascinated me. Shown in movies like PS I love you, and Game of Thrones series
18. Start a primary school for kids in my village with proper toilet and mid-day meal program
19. Do the basic and then the advance mountaineering course from NIM.
20. Go till Camp 1 of Mount Everest (the one after base camp)
21. Climb Island Peak in Nepal. Height — 6000m. So 3/4th of Mount Everest but much cheaper to climb
22. Do treks in 3 different continents — Himalayas, Alps and Andes
23. Try LSD in a Rave Party
24. Travel with Hippies
25. Watch Arsenal play at Emirates, London 😍
26. Give a speech on stage with a crowd of more than 100
27. Swim in pacific ocean
28. Get over the fear of trapped in a closed space
29. Own a small yacht and going for solo sailing. Being in the ocean alone with water all around you.. nobody will even know if something happens to you, but that’s what I think humans are meant to do..to go into the unknown and trust yourself to come out of it.
30. Adopt a kid
31. Learn Spanish and French. These 2 languages are spoken by the most countries apart from English and Arabic and will be super useful while travelling across Africa and South America
32. Learn how to cook from mom. Helping her write down her recipes
33. Get a puppy. Can’t wait to play with it, go on walks and watch it grow 😄
34. Get a second degree in one of arts subjects. And it should be by attending lectures instead of long-distance course. Hopefully will appreciate it more this time around :P
35. Visit CERN in Switzerland — world’s largest particle accelerator
36. Learn economics and learning how to trade. super important if I want to be financially independent and do the other things mentioned here
37. Drive a truck on Indian roads and live the life of a truck driver for a couple of days
38. Cycle from Manali to Leh/Ladakh. Not sure if this is the best route but basically want to cycle in Himalayas.
39. Design more comfortable cycle seats. The current ones hurt like hell
40. Buy a camper van and do road trips with family..basically go anywhere the heart desires
41. Join a dance class and be regular for at least a few months💃
42. Start a blog
43. Stay in forest for a few days and survive on my own
44. Learn to code and make my own website. Next make an app
45. Dance with a girl in front of the Eiffel Tower
46. Becoming a host on Couchsurfing and Airbnb
47. Stay on a mountain for a week..doesn’t have to be a solid house, a tent will do too
48. Learn kickboxing 💪
49. Learn to shoot with a gun
50. Get a six pack at least once

51. Participate and complete Ironman, the Triathlon
52. Try cuisine of every country I visit
53. Donate my organs
54. Bungee Jumping from 600 feet
55. Live on an island
56. Go to a place without network and read 20 books in one month
57. Attend live music concerts in US and Europe
58. Adopt an elephant
59. Travel with mom dad ..especially to all the pilgrimage my mom always wanted to visit
60. Install solar panel at the family house in Bikaner
61. Watch dolphins, but out in the sea — like in the titanic movie 😃
62. Experience ayahuasca in South America
63. Open a daycare centre for kids of labourers..they have no other option but to bring their kids to their work which is not fit for an adult let alone a kid
64. Buy a telescope and do star gazing..still remember the moment I saw Saturn rings during a school camp..super fascinating
65. Hold a cub of a lion or tiger
66. See a bear in the wild
67. Learn photography with a DSLR
68. Do vipassana
69. Experience a supernatural event
70. Play football again in a full ground, 11 on 11
71. Practice Ramadan once in life..fast for 30 days
72. Learn bartending
73. Experience snow fall..make a snow man
74. Learn skiing and do a cross country skiing
74. Buy/Rent (mostly rent) a sports bike and ride super fast (childhood dream)
75. Write a song for someone
76. Complete the Brevet challenge of cycling 600 kms in 40 hours
77. Visit Golden Temple and volunteer to help in langar
78. Visit all 7 wonders of the world
79. Stay in youth hostels of different countries of Europe
80. Watch a football world cup final / semi final
81. Raise money through crowdfunding
82. Learn to eat with chopsticks
83. See a Giant tortoise
84. Stay with locals in every country I visit
85. Do farming/adopt a farm. Eat vegetables from my own organic farm
86. Volunteer for UN
87. Start a travel community
88. Meet a billionaire
89. Work for a local election
90. Have dinner with random people everyday for a month
91. Visit Grand Canyons and stay there for the night
92. Make a product. Doesn’t need to be for a lot of people, I just want to design a product for myself

93. Get into city planning team of any city in the world. You have the opportunity to solve so many problems as more and more people shift to cities.

94. Push cycling as a mode of transportation in the metros

95. Read classics like Gone with the wind, Jane Eyre and 1984.

96. Wake up at 4 30 am everyday for a month and then continue waking up as early as possible. Inspired from Filipe Castro.

97. Complete Mumbai Marathon..the one day of the year where you can run on the Bandra Worli Sea link 😃

98. Write a children’s book

99. Trek on an active volcano

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100. This one technically doesn’t belong here as I don’t expect to do this by the time I turn forty. But this the ultimate dream - Open an university which will teach social entrepreneurship.

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