Subject to change, but as of today this is what I would like to do before I die:
- Reach 100 followers on my blog
- Write at least 15 minutes every single day for a year
- Finish writing my novel
- Get published in a magazine
- Publish a novel
- Write something that affects someone deeply
- Be quoted by an absolute stranger
- Finish writing my fanfiction stories
- Work at some sort of suicide hotline center
- Walk through Central Park with someone I deeply love
- Go on a road trip across the U.S. and Canada
- Visit New Zealand
- Travel through Western Europe
- Win 10 writing contests
- Stay up all night just staring at the stars
- Deeply talk to someone all night long
- Mean something
- Be a role model
- Teach someone something they will never forget
- Impact someone’s heart so valuably that they can’t ever leave
- Love freely without restraint, fear, or restrictions
- Photograph my life for a year
- Grow a garden
- Fall asleep under a tree
- Build a sand sculpture of something
- Paint my happy place so I can share it with the world
- Keep a journal of all the dreams I have, no matter how strange or incomplete
- Write a song that means something
- Paint a mural
- Learn all the words to “Lose Yourself” by Eminem
- Be remembered
- Make someone’s life truly better
- Actually watch all the movies on my Netflix instant queue
- Be able to read and understand any Shakespeare piece without notes
- Read the entire Bible from cover to cover
- Provide the insight needed to impact something
- Become someone’s number one
- Lay in a boat over a lake
- Witness something truly remarkable
- Amaze someone
- Be able to finally recite “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss
- Finally own a Siberian Husky
- Visit Alaska
- Every 16 minutes someone commits suicide. Just once, make 32 minutes pass without suicide because I convinced someone to live.
- Learn how to barbecue
- Return to Maine and watch the ocean
- Get interviewed by a legit newspaper
- Write an essay or blog post or something that becomes well-known
- Learn how to speak and understand French
- Make someone reconsider something they thought they knew
- Inspire people to think
- Take a walk in the park while it snows
- Don’t become “known” or “popular”, but rather admired and respected
- Revisit the Grand Canyon and write about the experience
- Find a way to convince someone special that they are worth the entire world
- Become appreciated, not used
- Perform a poem in front of an audience
- Attend a poetry slam
- Dance outside in the rain
- Learn how to Tango
- Become good at playing guitar
- Master the piano
- Own a German Shepherd
- Create my own library in my house
- Learn how to knit
- Learn the constellations in the sky
- Build something from nothing
- See the Northern Lights
- Learn to speak Spanish
- Create a connection with someone “famous”
- Do something “incredible”
- Learn how to sail
- Volunteer at a nursing home
- Sit with veterans and listen to their stories
- Spend a day on a street corner speaking whatever comes to mind
- Win some sort of national contest
- Ride a mechanical bull
- Learn the names of every Nobel Prize winner for poetry
- Witness a miracle
- Create a quilt
Dominique Zuniga 