The Big Life List: 3002 things to do and live through

Love & Family 142

Fall in love
Make love
Get married
Go on a date
Kiss someone special on New Year's Eve
Kiss in the rain
Kiss under the mistletoe
Have a romantic, candle-lit dinner with someone special
Receive flowers from someone
Receive a claddagh ring
Be a parent
Fold 1000 paper cranes and give them to someone special
Thank a teacher who shaped my life
Make a new close friend as an adult
Go on a blind date
Go on vacation with my best friends
Adopt a pet from a shelter
Write a heartfelt love letter
Reconnect with a long-lost friend
Go to my school reunion
Host a big family reunion
Trace my family tree
Tell my family and friends that I love them
Forgive someone and let go of an old grudge
Befriend someone from a different generation
Go on a double date
Adopt a child
Officiate a friend's wedding
Stay up all night talking with someone special
Bake a birthday cake for someone special
Take a tandem bike ride with my partner
Renew my wedding vows
Record my parents' life stories on video
Visit the neighborhood where my parents grew up
Tell someone exactly how much they mean to me
Take a trip with my mom or dad
Become a foster parent
Host a foreign exchange student
Start a new family tradition
Learn my partner's love language
Take my partner on their dream vacation
Visit each other's hometowns with my partner
Wear matching couples costumes to a party
Become a grandparent
Organize a professional family portrait
Move in with a partner
Move in together too soon
Have a big fight with my partner
Throw something during a fight
Make up after a terrible fight
Close the distance after long distance
Meet the in-laws
Get along with my in-laws
Clash with my in-laws
Break up with someone
Break up and get back together
Break up with someone I still loved
Stay friends with an ex
Get back together with an ex years later
Forgive a partner who cheated
Find out my partner was lying
Fall for a friend's partner
Fall for my best friend
Have an unrequited love
Date someone much older
Date someone much younger
Date someone from a different religion
Date someone from a different class
Date across a language barrier
Marry someone my family didn't approve of
Elope
Have a small courthouse wedding
Get engaged
Call off an engagement
Get married more than once
Get a divorce
Throw a divorce party
Have a messy custody battle
Share custody of my kids
Be a single parent
Be a stay-at-home dad
Be a stay-at-home mom
Be a working parent with no help
Have a failed IVF cycle
Use a sperm donor
Use a surrogate
Go through a pregnancy loss with my partner
Have an unplanned pregnancy
Become a parent as a teenager
Become a parent after forty
Decide not to have children
Struggle to get pregnant
Adopt a child from another country
Be adopted
Foster a child and say goodbye
Become part of a stepfamily
Become a stepparent
Get a stepparent I didn't want
Grow to love my stepparent
Have half-siblings I barely know
Find a sibling I never knew I had
Not speak to a sibling for years
Make peace with an estranged sibling
Cut contact with a parent
Reconcile with a parent before they died
Fight over an inheritance
Care for an aging parent
Move a parent into a care home
Have my parents move in with me
Raise my grandchildren
Become an aunt or uncle
Be a godparent
Be the favorite aunt or uncle
Watch my parents divorce
Watch my parents remarry
Have a parent come out late in life
Introduce my same-sex partner to my family
Marry my same-sex partner
Raise kids as two dads
Raise kids as two moms
Find a chosen family
Spend a vacation with my chosen family
Spend a vacation alone on purpose
Have a family vacation ruined by a fight
Host my in-laws for a week
Have a baby in the house with no sleep
Have a child move out
Live with an empty nest
Have my kid stop talking to me
Hear my kid say they're proud of me
Have a talk with my teenager about sex
Find out my kid is being bullied
Tell my kids we're getting divorced
Introduce my kids to a new partner
Date as a single parent
Get remarried with kids at the wedding
Live apart together with my partner
Sleep in separate beds and stay happy
Have a sexless marriage
Rekindle the spark after years together
Celebrate a 25th anniversary
Fall in love again in old age

Adventure & Sport 96

Ride on a motorcycle
Go skydiving
Go shark cage diving
Fly in a hot air balloon
Go parasailing
Ride a jet ski
Take up a new sport
Cliff-jump into the ocean
Go to a ski resort
Go on a helicopter ride
Ride in a canoe
Try stand-up paddleboarding
Go kayaking
Attempt to surf
Go horseback riding
Learn to snowboard
Go skiing
Go snow tubing
Go on a zipline
Do a bungee jump
Learn to surf
Go scuba diving in the open ocean
Run a marathon
Climb a mountain
Go white-water rafting
Try indoor skydiving in a wind tunnel
Do a color run
Go kayaking on a wild river
Go paragliding
Go on a road trip with no fixed destination
Go camping in the wilderness
Play a game of paintball
Learn archery
Ride a mechanical bull
Go snorkeling over a coral reef
Hike to the summit of a volcano
Hike a long-distance trail from end to end
Learn to sail a boat
Fly down a long zip line
Go rock climbing outdoors
Learn to ski
Go dog sledding
Go waterskiing
Gallop on horseback along a beach
Ride a camel
Learn to ride a motorcycle
Go zorbing down a hill
Learn a martial art
Make a BASE jump
Get certified as a scuba diver
Run a half marathon
Finish my first 5K race
Run a 10K race
Finish a full Ironman triathlon
Go bodyboarding or body surfing in big waves
Trek to a mountain base camp
Go on a multi-day backpacking trip
Paddle a canoe across a lake
Go hang gliding
Explore a cave
Try kitesurfing
Learn to windsurf
Go down in a submarine
Go deep-sea fishing
Take a flying lesson and pilot a small plane
Go mountain biking on a rugged trail
Ride a board down the side of a volcano
Drive a supercar on a race track
Learn to skateboard
Try free diving on a single breath
Explore a shipwreck on a dive
Run a trail race through the hills
Get lost hiking and have to be found
Swim in the sea in winter
Get caught in a thunderstorm on a mountain
Ride a motorbike without a helmet
Ride in the back of a pickup truck on a dirt road
Spend a night in a bothy or mountain hut
Run out of petrol in the middle of nowhere
Jump off a high diving board
Go on a rollercoaster and throw up
Ride the scariest rollercoaster in the world
Drive a quad bike through sand dunes
Go off-roading in a 4x4
Do a night hike without a torch
Go coasteering
Swim across a lake
Cycle across a country
Go canyoning
Drive across a desert
Spend a night alone in the wilderness
Take a boat out without knowing how to sail
Get chased by a farm animal
Wild camp on a beach
Do a sky walk on a glass platform
Go urban exploring in an abandoned building

Nature & Wildlife 89

Sleep under the stars
See a shooting star
Witness a total solar eclipse
Watch the sunrise
Watch the sunset
Hike to a waterfall
Explore tide pools at low tide
Visit an active volcano
Spend an entire day beach hopping
Walk along a beach at night
Climb a tree
See the Northern Lights
See snow
See snow fall
Skate on real ice outside
See a glacier
Experience an earthquake
Go through a tsunami scare
See fireflies
Swim with dolphins
Milk a cow
See wild dolphins
Find a four-leaf clover
Visit a tulip field
Visit a sunflower field
Pick fruit or berries at a farm
Go whale watching
Swim in a lake
Go ice fishing
Go on a wildlife safari
Trek through a tropical rainforest
Watch a meteor shower
Stand under a waterfall
Sleep in an igloo
Spend a night in a treehouse
Hold a koala
Have a bonfire on the beach
Dance in the rain
Go stargazing far from city lights
Spend a night camping in the desert
See elephants in the wild
Watch a bear catch a salmon
Hold a baby sloth
Hold a tarantula
Volunteer at an animal sanctuary
See an iceberg up close
Soak in a natural hot spring
Watch the sunrise from a mountaintop
Have a white Christmas
Plant a tree
Watch a lunar eclipse
Stay in a glass igloo to watch the aurora
Kayak alongside whales
Swim with a whale shark
Swim with sea turtles
Watch baby sea turtles hatch and race to the sea
Swim with manatees
Dive with manta rays
Spot a great white shark in the wild
See penguins in the wild
Feed a giraffe
Hold a snake
Hold an owl
Swim in bioluminescent water
Swim in a cenote
Walk on a black sand beach
Visit a pink sand beach
See a glowworm cave
Get sunburnt so badly I peeled
Get bitten all over by mosquitoes
Pee outdoors in the wild
Poo in the woods
Get stung by a bee or wasp
See a tornado
Get caught in a hailstorm
Watch a thunderstorm from a window all night
Get soaked to the bone in a downpour
Get stuck in snow
See a rainbow
Touch the sea at sunrise
Lie in a meadow and watch the clouds
Get a tick bite
Feed ducks at a park
Hear a nightingale sing
See a fox in the city
Have a wild animal steal my food
Walk barefoot in the grass
Swim in a river
Get lost in a corn maze

World Travel 40

Set foot on every continent
Travel to another country
See all of the New Seven Wonders of the World
Go on a cruise
Fly first class
Take a trip on my own
Go on a trip with friends
Climb to the top of a lighthouse
Sleep in an airport
Hitchhike
Miss a flight
Fly business class on points
Get scammed abroad
Get upgraded on a flight
Lose my luggage
Get pickpocketed on vacation
Travel with just a backpack
Stay in a hostel dorm
Stay in a capsule hotel
Take an overnight sleeper train
Take a long-distance coach overnight
Fly on a budget airline with no legroom
Go on an all-inclusive package vacation
Go on a vacation and never leave the resort
Go interrailing
Take a gap year to travel
Travel somewhere without speaking the language
Get my passport stolen abroad
Get stranded by a cancelled flight
Run for a train and make it
Run for a train and miss it
Sleep on a beach because I had nowhere to stay
Stay in a luxury villa with a private pool
Take a cruise on a superyacht
Go on a vacation with my parents as an adult
Couchsurf with strangers
Go on a road trip in a camper van
Fly long-haul in economy next to a crying baby
Spend a night in a hotel I booked on a whim
Visit a place just because it was in a film

Europe 111

See a show at the Moulin Rouge in Paris
Drive over the Millau Viaduct in France
Ride a gondola in Venice
Visit Vatican City
Climb the stairs of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Ride a red double-decker bus in London
See the Matterhorn in Switzerland
Celebrate Oktoberfest in Munich
Explore the Colosseum in Rome
Visit the Alhambra in Granada
See Gaudí's Sagrada Família in Barcelona
Climb Brunelleschi's dome in Florence
Climb to the Acropolis in Athens
See Stonehenge at sunrise
Walk the Cliffs of Moher
Visit Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria
Hike in the Black Forest
Row to the island in Lake Bled
Walk through Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow
Walk the medieval old town of Tallinn
Visit the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
See the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris
Tour the Palace of Versailles
Tour the châteaux of the Loire Valley
Walk Monet's gardens at Giverny
Pay respects at the D-Day beaches in Normandy
Walk the medieval walls of Carcassonne
Ride the cable car up the Aiguille du Midi in Chamonix
Walk the Camino de Santiago
Walk through the Mezquita of Córdoba
Explore the Royal Alcázar of Seville
See Velázquez and Goya at the Prado in Madrid
Hike in the Picos de Europa
Explore the palaces of Sintra
Ride a tram through Lisbon's Alfama district
Taste port wine in Porto's Ribeira district
Stand under the dome of the Pantheon in Rome
Visit St Mark's Basilica and Square in Venice
See the art of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
Walk the ruins of Pompeii
Watch the Palio horse race in Siena
Climb Mount Etna in Sicily
See the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums
Watch the sunset in Oia on Santorini
Go island hopping in the Greek Cyclades
Visit the cliff-top monasteries of Meteora
Explore the British Museum in London
See the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London
Visit Edinburgh Castle in Scotland
Hike the fells of the Lake District, England
Walk along Hadrian's Wall
See the Roman baths in Bath, England
Climb Snowdon in Eryri (Snowdonia), Wales
Walk the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland
Visit the ancient tomb of Newgrange
See Rembrandt's Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum
Visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
Cruise the canals of Amsterdam
Stand in the Grand-Place in Brussels
Cruise the Danube through the Wachau Valley
Ride the railway to the Jungfraujoch
Visit Château de Chillon on Lake Geneva
Explore Prague Castle
Explore Kraków's Main Market Square
Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial
Soak in the thermal baths of Budapest
Walk the city walls of Dubrovnik
Hike the boardwalks of Plitvice Lakes
Explore Diocletian's Palace in Split
Sail the Bay of Kotor
Explore the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra cave monastery
Explore the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg
See the Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland
Sleep at the Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi
Wander Gamla Stan in Stockholm
Walk the old wharf of Bryggen in Bergen
Ride a hot air balloon over Cappadocia
Walk the ancient city of Ephesus
Explore the fortress city of Luxembourg
Explore the old town of Tbilisi
Visit Mont-Saint-Michel at high tide
Visit Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
Kayak the Gorges du Verdon in Provence
Visit the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
Cruise the Douro Valley wine region
See Michelangelo's David in Florence
Drive the Amalfi Coast
Hike between the villages of Cinque Terre
Take a boat across Lake Como
Explore the cave dwellings of Matera
Explore the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete
Explore the Isle of Skye in Scotland
Drive the Ring of Kerry
Celebrate St Patrick's Day in Dublin
Watch divers leap from Stari Most in Mostar
Watch the sunset from Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress
Explore the ancient ruins of Butrint
Visit the Rila Monastery
Visit Bran Castle in Transylvania
Ride the rides at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen
Bathe in the Blue Lagoon
Explore the mosaics of Paphos
Visit the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco
See the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku
Visit the lakeside town of Ohrid
Visit the cave monastery of Orheiul Vechi
Explore the art nouveau streets of Riga
Visit the Hill of Crosses
Explore the fortified city of Valletta
Hike to Štrbské Pleso in the High Tatras

Asia 88

See the cherry blossoms in Japan
Go shopping in Tokyo's Shibuya and Harajuku
Cross the Shibuya crossing in Tokyo
Eat sushi in Japan
Visit the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo
Walk on the Great Wall of China
Eat patbingsu in South Korea
Drink soju in South Korea
Visit Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul
Visit the DMZ between the two Koreas
Eat street food in Seoul
Go up N Seoul Tower
Watch the sunrise over Angkor Wat
Cruise Ha Long Bay overnight
Visit the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet
See the Taj Mahal at sunrise
Explore the Amber Fort and the pink city of Jaipur
Stand in the Registan square of Samarkand
Float over the temples of Bagan in a hot-air balloon
See Komodo dragons in the wild
Climb Mount Fuji
Explore the Forbidden City in Beijing
Cruise the Li River among the karst peaks of Guilin
Explore the ancient cities of Sri Lanka's Cultural Triangle
See Naqsh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan
Explore the ruins of Persepolis
Explore the ancient capital of Ayutthaya
See the lantern-lit old town of Hoi An
Watch the sunrise from Borobudur
See the floating torii gate of Miyajima
See the Terracotta Army in Xi'an
Take in the skyline from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong
Hike Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan
See the Buddhist cave art of the Mogao Caves
Wander the classical gardens of Suzhou
See the colorful travertine pools of Huanglong
Explore the volcanic island of Jeju
Ride across the Gobi Desert to the Khongoryn Els dunes
Watch the evening ceremony on the ghats of Varanasi
Visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar
Travel through the high desert of Ladakh
Ride a camel into the Thar Desert from Jaisalmer
See the temples of Khajuraho
Wander the boulder-strewn ruins of Hampi
Relax on the beaches of Goa
See one-horned rhinos in Kaziranga National Park
Trek to Everest Base Camp
Hike the Annapurna Circuit
Explore the Durbar Squares of the Kathmandu Valley
Spot rhinos on safari in Chitwan National Park
Climb Sigiriya Rock in Sri Lanka
Visit the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy
Walk the ramparts of Galle Fort
Visit the Mughal monuments of Lahore
Stay in an overwater bungalow in the Maldives
Explore the old city of Bukhara
Visit the Grand Palace in Bangkok
Explore the temples of Chiang Mai
Eat street food in Hanoi's Old Quarter
See the leg-rowing fishermen of Inle Lake
Dive the wall off Sipadan Island
See the Supertrees of Gardens by the Bay in Singapore
Walk the rice terraces around Ubud in Bali
See orangutans in Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra
See the ancient rice terraces of Banaue
Island-hop the lagoons of El Nido in Palawan
Visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Visit the Sapporo Snow Festival
Explore Himeji Castle
See the Great Buddha of Nara
Walk among ancient cedars on Yakushima
Climb the granite peaks of Huangshan, the Yellow Mountains
Walk the pilgrim circuit around Mount Kailash in Tibet
Stroll the Bund in Shanghai
Stand at the feet of the Leshan Giant Buddha
See giant pandas in Sichuan
Stroll around West Lake in Hangzhou
Browse the Sunday market in Kashgar
See the treasures of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Cruise the Kerala backwaters on a houseboat
Experience the Pushkar Camel Fair
Visit the City Palace in Udaipur
Explore the cave temples of Ajanta and Ellora
Watch the morning alms procession in Luang Prabang
Hike to the Tiger's Nest monastery in Bhutan
Explore the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans
Drive the Pamir Highway
Stay in a yurt at Song-Kol lake in Kyrgyzstan

Africa & Middle East 70

See the pyramids of Giza in Egypt
Visit Dubai
Watch the great migration in the Masai Mara
Go on safari in the Serengeti
Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
Experience the night market of Djemaa el-Fna in Marrakech
Sleep in a desert camp in the Moroccan Sahara
Descend into the Ngorongoro Crater
Glide through the Okavango Delta in a mokoro
Climb the red dunes of Sossusvlei
Ride the cable car up Table Mountain in Cape Town
Go on safari in Kruger National Park
Visit the rose-red city of Petra
Sleep under the stars in Wadi Rum
Float in the Dead Sea
Sail the Nile on a felucca or river cruise
Walk among the columns of Karnak Temple in Luxor
Visit the temples of Abu Simbel
See Tutankhamun's treasures at the Grand Egyptian Museum
Visit the desert oasis of Siwa
Get lost in the medina of Fez
Explore the ruins of Carthage
See the Roman amphitheater of El Jem
See the mosaics of the Bardo Museum in Tunis
Visit the slave castles of Cape Coast and Elmina
See the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
Trek to see mountain gorillas in Bwindi
Track gorillas in Volcanoes National Park
See wildlife at the waterholes of Etosha
Explore the Skeleton Coast
See Victoria Falls from the Zambian side
Go on a walking safari in South Luangwa
Hike in the Drakensberg mountains
Kayak on Lake Malawi
See lemurs in the rainforests of Madagascar
Explore the Old City of Jerusalem
See the Roman temples of Baalbek
Explore the tombs of the Valley of the Kings
Climb Mount Sinai for sunrise
Dive the coral reefs of the Red Sea
Visit the fortified village of Aït Benhaddou
Stroll through the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech
Wander the blue-and-white village of Sidi Bou Said
Visit the desert film sets and troglodyte homes of Matmata
Explore the Roman ruins of Timgad
Visit Gorée Island off Dakar
Trek the Simien Mountains
See elephants beneath Kilimanjaro in Amboseli
Climb Mount Kenya
Track chimpanzees in Mahale Mountains National Park
Explore the ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani
See Murchison Falls on the Nile
See huge elephant herds in Chobe National Park
Explore the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Canoe the Lower Zambezi
Explore the stone ruins of Great Zimbabwe
Visit Robben Island off Cape Town
Snorkel the Bazaruto Archipelago
Explore the Island of Mozambique
Swim at the granite beaches of the Seychelles
Hike the volcano Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion
Climb Masada at sunrise
Visit the Sea of Galilee
Visit the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi
Explore the fort and souq of Nizwa
Explore historic Alexandria
Relax on the beaches of Mauritius
Visit the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
Explore Doha and its Museum of Islamic Art
Visit the Al-Ahsa Oasis

The Americas 105

Visit all 50 US states
Gamble in Las Vegas
See Niagara Falls
Visit Newfoundland, Canada
Visit Mount Rushmore, USA
Stand in four US states at once at Four Corners
Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
See a Broadway show in New York
Eat a hot dog from a New York street cart
Visit the Statue of Liberty in New York
Visit Alcatraz in San Francisco
Visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York
Visit the San Diego Zoo
Stand on the equator at Mitad del Mundo, Ecuador
Eat poutine in Canada
See Iguazu Falls from both sides
Watch the sun rise over Machu Picchu
Snorkel with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands
Hike into the Grand Canyon
See Half Dome and El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
Climb among the ruins of Chichen Itza
Watch Old Faithful erupt in Yellowstone National Park
See the New York skyline from the Empire State Building
Celebrate Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Ride an airboat through the Everglades
Dive the Great Blue Hole in Belize
Ride a vintage car through Old Havana
Explore the Amazon rainforest by riverboat
Drive the Pacific Coast Highway through Big Sur
Cross the salt flats of Death Valley
Walk among the giant redwoods of northern California
Explore the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde
Watch the world's highest tides in the Bay of Fundy
Explore the jungle ruins of Palenque
Float through the canals of Xochimilco in Mexico City
Snorkel the Belize Barrier Reef
Watch the sunrise over the temples of Tikal
Watch the Perito Moreno Glacier calve
Spot jaguars in the wetlands of the Pantanal
Hike the W Trek in Torres del Paine
Stargaze in the Atacama Desert
Explore the Inca capital of Cusco
Visit the floating reed islands of Lake Titicaca
See Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall
Watch the sunrise over Monument Valley
See Denali, North America's highest peak, in Alaska
Cruise Alaska's Inside Passage past tidewater glaciers
Drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park
Hike in the Great Smoky Mountains
See the fall foliage in New England
Visit Graceland and the music clubs of Memphis
See the turquoise water of Lake Louise and Moraine Lake
Drive the Icefields Parkway through the Canadian Rockies
Celebrate the Day of the Dead in Oaxaca
Visit the villages around Lake Atitlan
Stroll the colonial streets of Antigua Guatemala
Watch ships pass through the Panama Canal
Explore the tobacco farms of the Viñales Valley
Swim with stingrays at Stingray City, Grand Cayman
Snorkel the underwater sculpture park in Grenada
Dance the tango in Buenos Aires
Watch southern right whales off Peninsula Valdes
Explore the colorful Pelourinho district of Salvador da Bahia
Snorkel with dolphins at Fernando de Noronha
Spend a day on Ipanema Beach
Fly over the Nazca Lines
Watch condors soar over Colca Canyon
See the mirror effect on the Salar de Uyuni salt flats
Explore the colonial old town of Quito
Walk the walled old city of Cartagena
See the Gold Museum in Bogota
Ring in the New Year in Times Square
Walk the Las Vegas Strip at night
Walk or cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge
Hike the canyons of Zion National Park
See the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon
Drive the Overseas Highway to Key West
Watch a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral
Tour the monuments of the National Mall in Washington, DC
See the Teton Range in Grand Teton National Park
Catch the first sunrise in the US at Acadia National Park
See a show at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville
Take an architecture boat tour in Chicago
See the deep blue water of Crater Lake
See the carved stelae of the Maya city of Copan
Climb the twin volcanoes of Ometepe Island
See Arenal Volcano and soak in its hot springs
Kayak a bioluminescent bay in Puerto Rico
See the Pitons of St. Lucia
Dive the shore reefs of Bonaire
Go birdwatching in the rainforest of Trinidad
Travel the Ruta de las Flores in El Salvador
Climb to the Citadelle Laferriere in Haiti
Walk the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo
Explore the boulder grottoes of The Baths on Virgin Gorda
Sail the Grenadines
Sail through the Exuma Cays of the Bahamas
Hike Dominica's Morne Trois Pitons National Park
Relax on Grace Bay Beach in Turks and Caicos
Watch the sunset from the cliffs of Negril, Jamaica
Relax on the pink-sand beaches of Bermuda
See the mighty Kaieteur Falls in Guyana
Wander the old town of Colonia del Sacramento
Explore the Jesuit mission ruins of Paraguay
See king penguins in the Falkland Islands

Oceania & Islands 40

Visit Hobbiton in New Zealand
Hike Diamond Head in Hawaii
Dive or snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
Watch the sunset over Uluru
See a performance at the Sydney Opera House
Cruise Milford Sound in Fiordland
See ancient rock art in Kakadu National Park
Hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing
See the moai statues of Easter Island
Drive the Great Ocean Road past the Twelve Apostles
Drive the sand tracks of K'gari (Fraser Island)
Swim with whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef
Hike in the Blue Mountains near Sydney
Hike around Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
See the geysers and Maori culture of Rotorua
Sail the Bay of Islands
Stargaze beneath Aoraki / Mount Cook
Swim in Palau's Jellyfish Lake
Hike or sail the Na Pali Coast of Kauai
See lava at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Explore the rainforest at Cape Tribulation in the Daintree
See wild kangaroos and sea lions on Kangaroo Island
Hike to the lookout over Wineglass Bay in Tasmania
Taste wine in the Barossa Valley
Visit remote Lord Howe Island
Explore the Flinders Ranges in the Outback
Kayak the coast of Abel Tasman National Park
Walk on the Franz Josef or Fox Glacier
Bungee jump in Queenstown
Walk to Cathedral Cove on the Coromandel Peninsula
Stay in an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora
Explore the lagoon and peaks of Moorea
Dive the soft corals of Fiji's Rainbow Reef
Swim with humpback whales in Vava'u, Tonga
Travel up the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea
Snorkel the lagoon of New Caledonia
Swim in the lagoon of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands
Dive the WWII shipwrecks of Chuuk Lagoon
Swim in the To Sua ocean trench in Samoa
Peer into an active volcano in Vanuatu

Theme Parks 17

Visit a Disney park
Ride one of the world's tallest roller coasters
Visit Walt Disney World in Florida
Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Ride a Segway
Visit every Disney park in the world
Ride every ride in a theme park
Visit a Universal Studios park
Ride every ride at a traveling carnival or fair
Bounce around a trampoline park
Brave a Halloween horror night at a theme park
Stay overnight at a theme park resort
Ride the biggest slide at a water park
Kiss at the top of a Ferris wheel
Ride the bumper cars
Ride a swinging pirate ship ride
Smash things in a rage room

Music & Events 79

Go to a boy band concert
Go to a pop concert
Go to a rock concert
Go to a heavy metal concert
Go to a reggae concert
Go to an indie rock concert
Go to an EDM concert
Catch a guitar pick or a setlist at a concert
See an opera
Meet a celebrity
Meet a YouTube celebrity
Go to a fan convention like VidCon
Go to a Comic-Con
Be a spectator at the Olympic Games
Be a spectator at a World Cup
Go to a hockey game
Be an extra in a film or TV show
See my favorite band or artist live
Go to a music festival
Write and record my own song
See a world-class acrobatic circus show
Watch a film at a drive-in cinema
Take part in a flash mob
Go to Coachella
Go to the Super Bowl
Bet on a horse race at the track
Release a lantern at a lantern festival
Attend a murder mystery dinner
Attend Burning Man
Get front-row seats at a concert
See a live ballet
Go to a stand-up or improv comedy night
Watch a sumo wrestling tournament
Go to a rodeo
See a game at every stadium in a league
Join the tomato fight at La Tomatina
Watch the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona
Go to a masquerade ball
Attend a TED talk in person
Attend the Academy Awards
Go to Glastonbury Festival
Dance at Tomorrowland
Go backstage at a concert
Follow a band on tour
Get up on stage during a concert
See a concert by an artist I have never heard of
Go to an open-air concert in a park
See The Nutcracker at Christmas time
Hear a world-class symphony orchestra live
See a show in London's West End
See a big production show in Las Vegas
See a burlesque show
Watch a match at Wimbledon
Watch live pro wrestling
Go to a roller derby bout
Sing karaoke alone in a bar
Sing karaoke in a private room in Asia
Go to a gig alone
Sleep in a tent at a muddy festival
Go to a festival and not see a single band
Mosh in a mosh pit
Lose my shoe in a mosh pit
Go to a free concert in a park
Go to a classical concert and clap at the wrong time
Go to a jazz club
Go to a gospel church service for the music
See a tribute band
Go to a cheesy 80s night
Join a choir
Play a gig to almost nobody
Learn to play the drums
Sing in the shower every day
Buy a vinyl record
Go to a reunion tour of a band from my youth
Queue all night for concert tickets
Pay a fortune for resale concert tickets
Cry at a concert
Get a song stuck in my head for a week
Go to a musical and sing along

Food & Drink 96

Try Thai rolled ice cream
Eat a macaron
Try eating balut
Eat an insect
Take a cooking class abroad
Eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant
Go wine tasting at a vineyard
Eat pizza in Italy
Try escargot
Brew my own beer
Drink a bottle of vintage champagne
Eat at an underwater restaurant
Have a drink at an ice bar
Eat my way through a street food market
Try the cuisine of as many countries as I can
Taste caviar
Feast on a whole fresh lobster
Share a dim sum brunch
Eat fish and chips by the seaside
Eat a fresh croissant in a Paris bakery
Take part in a traditional tea ceremony
Go to a pig roast
Catch a fish and cook it the same day
Cook a full holiday dinner for family
Enter a food-eating challenge
Cook a new recipe every week for a year
Share a meal with a stranger
Learn to eat with chopsticks
Stomp grapes at a harvest
Build my own wine collection
Sip a margarita in Mexico
Dine at a table suspended high in the sky
Have a cocktail at a rooftop bar
Go on a pub crawl
Eat from a food truck
Go on a food-focused trip
Go to a food festival
Eat Indian food in India
Eat pad thai from a Bangkok street stall
Try kangaroo meat
Taste a fresh truffle
Try durian
Try snake meat
Eat octopus
Try a century egg
Eat soup dumplings
Eat a masala dosa
Try an authentic biryani
Eat momo dumplings
Try homemade kimchi
Eat a bowl of pho
Eat a full English breakfast
Eat a Belgian waffle
Taste baklava
Eat a traditional paella
Eat beignets in New Orleans
Try Danish open sandwiches
Eat murtabak in Malaysia
Pour real maple syrup on pancakes
Try bubble tea
Eat fast food at 3am
Eat a whole pizza alone
Live on instant noodles
Eat a whole tub of ice cream in one sitting
Eat cold pizza for breakfast
Eat a kebab on the way home after a night out
Eat a meal entirely from a gas station
Live on beans on toast for a week
Eat food past its use-by date and survive
Dumpster-dive for perfectly good food
Eat a free sample just to fill up
Eat at an all-you-can-eat buffet until it hurt
Order a dish I couldn't pronounce
Eat a tasting menu with more than ten courses
Send a dish back at a restaurant
Leave a restaurant without being able to afford dessert
Burn a meal so badly the smoke alarm went off
Eat a whole cake straight from the box
Eat a chilli so hot I cried
Get brain freeze from a slushie
Eat raw cookie dough by the spoon
Eat leftovers straight from the fridge in the dark
Order a takeaway three nights in a row
Eat a burger bigger than my head
Eat at a greasy spoon café
Eat a Christmas dinner from the microwave
Lick the plate in a posh restaurant
Eat a whole packet of biscuits in one go
Eat a meal I had stolen from a flatmate's shelf
Go vegan for January
Eat a dish made from offal
Eat horse meat
Eat a meal cooked over a campfire
Eat raw oysters
Order the most expensive thing on the menu
Eat a frozen ready meal for Christmas

Learning 67

Graduate from high school
Earn a bachelor's degree
Earn a master's degree
Study abroad in another country
Learn to speak another language
Learn to dance
Learn to play the piano
Learn to play the guitar
Learn to play chess
Learn to play pool
Solve the Rubik's Cube
Take a ceramics class
Read 100 books in a year
Learn to juggle
Learn to meditate
Become fluent in a second language
Learn sign language
Learn to cook properly
Learn to swim well
Build my own website
Make yoga a regular habit
Learn to knit
Learn to sew
Take singing lessons
Bake my own bread from scratch
Learn to salsa
Get certified in CPR and first aid
Learn to ice skate
Take a self-defense class
Learn to code
Learn a few magic tricks
Learn to identify the constellations
Read the great classic novels
Read some banned books
Learn to bartend and mix cocktails
Learn calligraphy
Learn to play golf
Learn the hula
Learn to say hello and thank you in ten languages
Learn to play the violin
Learn ballroom dancing
Learn to tap dance
Take up birdwatching
Learn basic car maintenance
Read the book I pretended to read at school
Read everything by my favorite author
Read a sacred text from cover to cover
Join a book club
Learn to change a tyre
Go back to school as a mature student
Fail my driving test
Fail an exam and resit it
Drop out of university
Win a spelling bee
Learn to whistle with my fingers
Learn to do a cartwheel as an adult
Learn to cook a curry from scratch
Learn to roll sushi
Learn to ride a bike as an adult
Learn to read music
Take a night class for fun
Learn to fix a leaky tap
Learn to touch type
Learn first words in my partner's language
Learn to pole dance
Learn to throw a punch properly
Learn the lyrics to a whole rap song

Art & Making 59

Write a book
Start a blog
Start a YouTube channel
Grow my own vegetables
Write a screenplay
Start a podcast
Make a video that goes viral
Paint a picture
Take a painting class
Take a photo every day for a year
Make a scrapbook
Knit a sweater
Sew a piece of clothing I can wear
Act in a play or musical
Invent something
Write a children's book
Write a cookbook of family recipes
Record my own music album
Write a poem
Take a photography class
Try glassblowing
Make a stained-glass piece
Design my own clothes
Design my own tattoo
Build a piece of furniture
Restore an old piece of furniture
Build a treehouse
Make a mosaic
Make my own candles
Make my own soap
Give someone a handmade gift
Fold an origami animal
Turn my handwriting into a font
Create a flower arrangement
Create a piece of art and sell it
Enter my art in an exhibition
Perform at an open-mic night
Choreograph and perform my own dance
Invent my own language
Bury a time capsule
Write terrible poetry as a teenager
Keep a diary for a whole year
Write a novel and never finish it
Make a zine
Do life drawing with a nude model
Pose nude for a life drawing class
Make a short film
Paint a mural
Do graffiti on a legal wall
Make a quilt
Write a song about an ex
Make a cosplay costume
Do stand-up comedy
Build a model railway
Make a collage of magazine cut-outs
Take a pottery class and make a wonky mug
Dress up for a comic con in a homemade costume
Make my own jewellery
Do a drag performance

Milestones 68

Learn to drive
Get my driver's license
Learn to drive a stick shift
Be a maid of honor
Be a bridesmaid
Get a job
Get my own debit card
Get my own credit card
Buy my own car
Buy a house
Rent an apartment
Live away from home
Vote
Get a gym membership (and actually go)
Start a business
Get completely out of debt
Speak at a conference
Reach my ideal weight
Write a letter to my future self
Build my dream home
Become financially independent
Become a millionaire
Find a job I love
Live abroad
Get in the best shape of my life
Quit smoking for good
Do a week-long digital detox
Make a will and put my affairs in order
Set a world record
Turn a hobby into a business
Retire early
Save up a solid emergency fund
Become an expert in my field
Switch to a career in a different field
Take a year off to do what I love
Conquer a lifelong fear
Go vegetarian for a month
Appear on television
Compete on a game show
Set up a college fund for my children
Do something truly brave
Spend a whole day happily on my own
Pay off my mortgage
Negotiate a raise
Take a job in another country
Move back in with my parents at 30
Get a mortgage
Get married in Vegas
Move to a new city where I knew nobody
Move house more than ten times
Live in a house share
Live in a caravan or mobile home
Live on a boat
Live in a van
Own my first pet as an adult
Become a godparent
Buy a sports car in a midlife crisis
Turn 40 and throw a big party
Turn 50 and not tell anyone
Spend my birthday alone
Downsize after the kids leave home
Get my first gray hair
Lie about my age
Have a big wedding I couldn't afford
Get remarried
Live with a partner before marriage
Get a long-distance relationship to work
Have a second family later in life

Giving Back 51

Take part in a community running event
Volunteer at a hospital
Volunteer at an animal shelter
Volunteer for an organization doing social work
Grow my hair out, then cut it and donate it
Donate blood
Mentor someone
Make a real difference in someone's life
Do 100 hours of volunteer work
Perform a random act of kindness
Teach a free workshop on something I know well
Register as an organ donor
Volunteer abroad
Foster a rescue animal
Serve food at a soup kitchen
Help build a home for a family in need
Leave a 100% tip for a server
Give a free hug to a stranger
Help someone else tick off a bucket list goal
Help grant a wish for a seriously ill child
Start a charity
Organize a charity fundraiser
Do a sponsored walk or run for charity
Set up a scholarship fund
Hand out care packages to homeless people
Join the bone marrow donor registry
Coach a children's sports team
Volunteer at a local school
Entertain residents at a care home
Pay the toll for the car behind me
Hide an encouraging note in a book for someone to find
Become a philanthropist
Make a microloan to a small entrepreneur
Donate a box of my books
Donate toys to children at the holidays
Give money to a busker
Buy a homeless person a meal
Give a stranger a lift
Give up my seat on the bus
Return a lost wallet with the money still in it
Pick up litter on a beach
Knit something for charity
Donate my clothes to a charity shop
Babysit for a friend for free
Help a stranger move house
Cook for a neighbor who was struggling
Volunteer at a festival
Give a big tip to a delivery driver in the rain
Visit a lonely neighbor
Help an elderly person across the road
Sponsor a child abroad

Fun & Friends 90

Visit a Madame Tussauds wax museum
Swing on a rope swing into the water
Get out of an escape room in time
Have a conversation with a stranger that lasts for hours
Get a henna tattoo
Have a psychic reading
Attempt to be hypnotized
Successfully become hypnotized
Have a pen pal (handwritten letters and everything)
Meet an online friend
Take a really expensive car out for a test drive
Push all the buttons in an elevator
Visit one of the top haunted houses
Have a lucid dream
Have a snowball fight
Build a snowman
Make a snow angel
Tie-dye shirts
Have a paint fight
Have a food fight
Have a Nerf gun fight
Have a karaoke night with friends
Fly a kite
Sit in the studio audience of a live TV show
Ride in a limousine
Send a message in a bottle
Have my palm read
Throw someone a surprise party
Play messy Twister
Jump into a pool fully clothed
Ride a Ferris wheel
Race go-karts with friends
Try busking
Have a picnic
Name a star
Laugh until I cry
Walk the red carpet at a film premiere
Go camping with friends
Play laser tag
Host a board game night
Have a marathon of my favorite films
Watch every Best Picture winner
Run through the sprinklers
Win a stuffed animal at a fair
Wear a costume in public for no reason
Recreate a favorite movie scene
Recreate a childhood photo
Hop in a taxi and say "Follow that car!"
Play bingo in a bingo hall
Go to a toga party
Fall asleep at a party
Laugh at a funeral
Wave back at someone who wasn't waving at me
Fall over in public and pretend it didn't happen
Sing loudly with my headphones on, unaware everyone could hear
Call a teacher "Mum" or "Dad"
Lock myself out in my underwear
Get stuck in a lift
Lose my voice from screaming at a gig
Split my trousers in public
Send a message to the person I was talking about
Get caught singing in the car at traffic lights
Win a pub quiz
Come last in a pub quiz
Get kicked out of a cinema for laughing
Wear the same outfit as someone else at a party
Go to a fancy dress party where nobody else dressed up
Get a celebrity's autograph
Get a photo with a celebrity and look terrible in it
Prank call someone
Get a temporary tattoo and pass it off as real
Play spin the bottle
Play truth or dare as an adult
Gatecrash a wedding reception
Get lost in an IKEA
Eat something off the floor after the five-second rule
Laugh so hard I snorted in a silent room
Sleep through my alarm on an important day
Pretend to be on the phone to avoid someone
Hide from a neighbor in a supermarket
Forget someone's name right after they told me
Have a water balloon fight as a grown-up
Play hide and seek in a huge house
Have a pillow fight
Win a raffle
Dress in drag for a party
Go to a silent disco
Fart during a yoga class
Get a selfie with a stranger's dog
Do a bar crawl in fancy dress

Wild Side 59

Get a tattoo
Drink alcohol
Get drunk
Go on a booze cruise
Go clubbing
Go to a bar
Try drugs
Smoke a cigarette
Skinny-dip
Pull an all-nighter
Dye my hair a crazy color
Pierce my cartilage
Get a second piercing in my ears
Get a piercing somewhere besides my ears
Crowd-surf
Rave
Dance on a tabletop
Stay in a cemetery overnight until sunrise
Stay up all night and watch the sunrise
Get the bold haircut I've always been nervous about
Go to a nude beach
Kiss a stranger
Walk on hot coals
Take an ice-cold polar plunge
Say yes to everything for a day
Go to a nudist resort
Blow a month's pay in Vegas
Get a tattoo I regret
Get a tattoo on a dare
Get a tramp stamp
Get a nipple piercing
Get a tongue piercing
Shave my head completely
Go to a hen or stag do abroad
Go to a fetish club
Go topless on a beach
Play poker for real money
Win big at a casino
Lose everything I brought to a casino
Bet on a dog race
Go to an underground warehouse party
Get thrown out of a nightclub
Party for a whole weekend without going home
Go to a foam party
Go to a full moon party
Spend New Year's Eve in a club until sunrise
Go to an all-night party on a beach in Ibiza
Visit a sex museum
Visit a red-light district
Go to a pride parade in fancy dress
Get a gold tooth
Get a split tongue or another body mod
Ride on the back of a stranger's motorbike
Jump off a bridge into a river
Get a tattoo abroad on vacation
Go to a sauna naked with strangers
Spend a night in a casino without sleeping
Book a last-minute trip after a night out
Go streaking

Treat Yourself 40

Buy myself something really expensive with my own money
Buy myself a designer swimsuit
Go on a crazy shopping spree
Get a spa treatment
Get a bikini wax
Get a Brazilian wax
Get a professional massage
Treat myself to a spa day
Stay in a five-star hotel
Splurge on the best seats in the house
Buy myself a piece of milestone jewelry
Find my signature scent
Fly in a private jet
Charter a yacht
Get a couples massage
Have breakfast in bed
Take a mud bath
Get a complete makeover
Have a professional photo shoot
Get a manicure
Get a pedicure
Get a fish pedicure
Get a facial
Get my eyebrows threaded
Get eyelash extensions
Get a spray tan
Go on a sunbed
Get my teeth whitened
Get a hot stone massage
Get a Thai massage
Go to a Turkish bath
Go to a Korean spa
Get a professional blow-dry
Get a shave at a barber's with a straight razor
Get a back wax
Book a hotel room just to have a bath
Spend all day in a dressing gown
Order room service
Have a personal shopper
Get a chiropractor to crack my back

Drugs & Booze 150

Get so drunk I forgot the night
Have my first sip of alcohol before I was legally allowed
Get served underage
Use a fake ID to get into a club
Get turned away from a club for being too drunk
Get cut off at a bar
Get kicked out of a pub
Throw up from drinking too much
Pay a cleaning fee to a taxi driver
Wake up somewhere with no idea how I got there
Have a hangover that lasted two days
Call in sick because of a hangover
Go to work still drunk from the night before
Try a hair-of-the-dog drink to cure a hangover
Swear I will never drink again, and drink again
Do a keg stand
Play beer pong
Play a drinking game until someone got sick
Shotgun a beer
Do tequila shots with salt and lime
Take a body shot off someone
Drink absinthe
Drink moonshine
Drink a whole bottle of wine by myself
Mix a terrible cocktail from whatever was in the cupboard
Smuggle a hip flask into a wedding
Sneak alcohol into a festival
Get a fine for drinking in public
Drink alone at home
Become a regular at my local pub
Have the bartender know my order
Run up a bar tab I could not afford
Drunk-text an ex
Drunk-dial my boss
Cry in a bar toilet
Make a best friend in a club toilet
Fall asleep on a night bus and miss my stop
Lose my phone on a night out
Eat a kebab at 4 am
Black out completely
Find drunk photos of myself I did not remember
Get alcohol poisoning
Have my stomach pumped
Be the designated driver all night
Get breathalyzed by the police
Get arrested for being drunk and disorderly
Lose a job because of drinking
Have a friend stage an intervention about my drinking
Admit to myself that I have a drinking problem
Go to an AA meeting
Get a sobriety chip
Get sober for a year
Do Dry January
Do Sober October
Try sober curious living
Order a mocktail at a bar without explaining myself
Relapse after a long time sober
Go to rehab
Visit someone I love in rehab
Look after a friend who was too drunk to stand
Hold someone's hair while they threw up
Get caught smoking by my parents
Steal a cigarette from a parent
Smoke a cigar
Smoke a pipe
Smoke shisha at a hookah lounge
Roll my own cigarette
Become a "social smoker" only when drinking
Smoke a pack a day
Use nicotine patches or gum
Chew tobacco
Try snus
Vape
Switch from cigarettes to vaping
Get hooked on vaping
Smoke weed for the first time
Get the giggles from weed
Get the munchies and eat everything in the house
Eat a pot brownie
Take an edible that was far stronger than expected
Green out
Get paranoid on weed
Smoke a joint at a festival
Buy weed legally in a shop
Visit a coffeeshop in Amsterdam
Grow a cannabis plant
Get a medical cannabis prescription
Get caught with weed by the police
Get high with my own parents
Become a daily stoner
Take a tolerance break from weed
Use CBD oil
Take magic mushrooms
Have a trip that changed how I see the world
Be a trip sitter for a friend
Try peyote or mescaline
Try ketamine
Have a K-hole
Try DMT
Do a psychedelic retreat abroad
Microdose
Take part in a psychedelic therapy study
Take MDMA
Hug strangers on ecstasy
Have the Tuesday blues after a weekend of pills
Get a pill tested at a festival
Try cocaine
Do a line in a bathroom stall
Talk nonstop all night on coke
Try speed
Try poppers
Inhale laughing gas from a balloon
Sniff glue or aerosols
Get spiked
Find out a drink I bought was spiked
Get addicted to prescription painkillers
Take someone else's prescription pills
Take ADHD meds to study all night
Take sleeping pills to get through a flight
Use benzos to calm my nerves
Survive an overdose
Save someone who was overdosing
Lose a friend to an overdose
Carry naloxone just in case
Go to a needle exchange
Get clean from hard drugs
Stay clean for five years
Mix alcohol and drugs and regret it
Go to an all-night rave in a warehouse
Party for three days straight
Be the only sober person at a party
Get sniffed by a drug dog
Smuggle something through customs I should not have
Sell weed to friends
Have a dealer's number in my phone
Get ripped off buying drugs
Take a drug test for a job
Drink ten cups of coffee in one day
Get caffeine jitters
Quit coffee
Chew coca leaves in the Andes
Chew khat or betel nut
Drink sake at an izakaya until closing time
Drink homemade rakia or palinka with a stranger's grandfather
Drink at a stag or hen do
Win a drinking contest
Become a beer snob
Distil my own spirits
Raise a toast to someone who died from drinking or drugs
Admit to a doctor exactly how much I really drink

Sex & Dating 170

Have a crush on a celebrity
Have a crush on a straight friend
Have a crush on my best friend
Have my first kiss
Have a terrible first kiss
Make out in the back row of a cinema
Play spin the bottle at a party
Get a hickey
Hide a hickey with a scarf
Kiss someone of the same gender
Kiss a colleague at the office party
Lose my virginity
Lose my virginity later than my friends
Lie about my number of sexual partners
Lie about being a virgin
Have sex in a car
Have sex outdoors
Have sex in a public place without getting caught
Get caught having sex
Get walked in on by a roommate
Walk in on my parents
Have sex in my childhood bedroom
Join the mile-high club
Have a one-night stand
Have a one-night stand I never told anyone about
Do the walk of shame
Forget the name of someone I slept with
Sleep with a stranger on vacation
Have a vacation romance
Have a friends-with-benefits arrangement
Fall for my friend with benefits
Have a booty call
Sleep with an ex
Get back together with an ex, and break up again
Have break-up sex
Have make-up sex
Have a threesome
Have a threesome with my partner
Go to a swingers' party
Go to a sex party
Have an open relationship
Be in a polyamorous relationship
Date two people at the same time
Try BDSM
Get tied up
Have a safe word
Spank or be spanked
Explore a foot fetish
Try role-play in the bedroom
Dress up in a costume for sex
Buy my first sex toy
Host or attend a sex-toy party
Own a vibrator
Watch porn with a partner
Get caught watching porn
Send a nude
Receive an unsolicited nude
Have a nude leaked
Sext with someone I never met
Have video-call sex in a long-distance relationship
Fly across the world to see someone I met online
Go to a strip club
Get a lap dance
Work as a stripper
Hire a sex worker
Sell content on OnlyFans
Take a pole dancing class
Pose for nude photos
Go to a naked spa or sauna
Sign up for a dating app
Use Tinder
Swipe right on everyone
Match with someone I know in real life
Match with a coworker
Get ghosted
Ghost someone
Get catfished
Go on a date that ended after twenty minutes
Have a friend fake an emergency call to rescue me from a date
Go to a speed-dating night
Get set up by my mom
Date someone much older than me
Date a coworker in secret
Date someone from a different class background
Have a sugar daddy or sugar mommy
Have a secret relationship
Be someone's dirty little secret
Pretend to have a boyfriend or girlfriend
Stalk an ex on social media
Block an ex everywhere
Get dumped by text
Dump someone by text
Get dumped and cry for a week
Get dumped by someone I was about to dump
Break off an engagement
Get left at the altar
Get divorced
Celebrate my divorce with a party
Date again after a divorce
Stay single for years by choice
Be single on Valentine's Day
Be the only single one at a wedding
Cheat on a partner
Get cheated on
Find out I was the other woman or man
Have an emotional affair
Get caught cheating
Have a secret fling at work
Sleep with a married person
Fake an orgasm
Have an orgasm with a partner for the first time
Have sex all weekend without leaving bed
Have a dry spell of over a year
Choose celibacy for a while
Realize I am asexual
Realize I am gay or lesbian
Question my sexuality
Come out to my friends
Come out to my parents
Get outed before I was ready
Have a same-sex relationship
Go to a drag show
Go to a Pride parade
Kiss my partner in public for the first time as a queer couple
Date a trans or nonbinary person
Have sex for the first time after transitioning
Use Grindr
Use a queer dating app
Experiment at university
Get an STI test
Wait anxiously for STI test results
Tell a partner I had an STI
Get the HPV vaccine
Take PrEP
Buy condoms at a gas station at midnight
Have a condom break
Take the morning-after pill
Have a pregnancy scare
Take a pregnancy test
Have an abortion
Support a partner through an abortion
Go on the pill
Get an IUD or implant
Get a vasectomy
Try for a baby for over a year
Do IVF
Freeze my eggs
Donate sperm or eggs
Have sex on a schedule to conceive
Get my sex life back after having a baby
Have sex in my sixties or later
Talk openly about sex with my parents
Have the sex talk with my own kid
Go to couples therapy about our sex life
See a sex therapist
Read an erotic novel
Write erotic fiction
Flirt my way out of a parking ticket
Slide into someone's DMs
Send a flirty message to the wrong person
Wake up next to someone I did not remember meeting
Sleep with a celebrity
Book a love hotel
Go on a sex-positive vacation or naturist resort
Do a striptease for a partner
Attend a kink munch or fetish night
Have a sleepover with someone and just cuddle
Lose interest in sex for a long time
Rediscover my libido
Learn what I actually like in bed

Body & Health 185

Break a bone
Break my nose
Wear a cast for six weeks
Use crutches
Get around in a wheelchair for a while
Get stitches
Sprain my ankle badly
Tear a ligament
Dislocate a shoulder
Get a concussion
Lose consciousness
Chip a front tooth
Have a root canal
Have my wisdom teeth out
Get a dental implant
Get dentures
Avoid the dentist for years because I couldn't afford it
Wear braces as a teenager
Get braces as an adult
Get glasses
Have laser eye surgery
Have cataract surgery
Get hearing aids
Get tinnitus
Have surgery under general anaesthetic
Have my appendix out
Have knee surgery
Get a hip replacement
Have heart surgery
Get a pacemaker
Spend more than a week in hospital
Be in intensive care
Be on a ventilator
Ride in an ambulance
Get airlifted by helicopter
Wait hours in the emergency room
Go to the ER in a foreign country
See a doctor abroad without speaking the language
Get a medical bill I couldn't pay
Go without health insurance
Skip seeing a doctor because of the cost
Go to a free clinic
Pay for a private clinic to skip the waiting list
Wait months on a waiting list for surgery
Travel abroad for cheaper medical treatment
Get food poisoning
Throw up in public
Get the flu so badly I couldn't get out of bed
Get pneumonia
Get COVID
Get COVID more than once
Get vaccinated against COVID
Get shingles
Get mono
Pass a kidney stone
Get a UTI
Get an STI and get it treated
Get tested for STIs
Live with HIV
Start PrEP
Get bed bugs
Get bitten by a dog
Get stung by a jellyfish
Get malaria
Get altitude sickness
Get heatstroke
Get a sunburn so bad it blistered
Go into anaphylaxis
Carry an epipen
Be diagnosed with coeliac disease
Have an asthma attack
Have eczema
Have bad acne
Get a mole removed
Get a skin cancer check
Find a lump
Have a biopsy
Wait for test results
Get a scary result that turned out fine
Have an MRI
Have a colonoscopy
Have a mammogram
Have a smear test
Have a prostate exam
Get my blood pressure under control
Be diagnosed with a chronic illness
Be diagnosed with diabetes
Inject insulin every day
Reverse prediabetes
Live with chronic pain
Live with migraines
Live with endometriosis
Live with PCOS
Live with IBS
Be diagnosed with epilepsy
Be diagnosed with MS
Become disabled
Use a mobility aid
Have a heart attack
Have a stroke
Go through chemotherapy
Ring the bell after my last treatment
Be told I'm cancer-free
Have a mastectomy
Get breast reconstruction
Receive an organ transplant
Nearly die
Be resuscitated
Have a near-drowning experience
Get through a serious illness
Go to physiotherapy
Learn to walk again
Get my period for the first time
Have periods so painful I couldn't work
Get an IUD
Take emergency contraception
Try for a baby for years
Find out I'm pregnant
Have a miscarriage
Have an ectopic pregnancy
Give birth
Have an epidural
Have a C-section
Breastfeed
Be a surrogate
Become a sperm donor
Get erectile dysfunction treated
Go through perimenopause without knowing what it was
Have a hysterectomy
Start hormone therapy
Have gender-affirming surgery
Bind my chest
Get facial hair removed by laser
Go bald
Get a hair transplant
Get Botox
Have liposuction
Regret a cosmetic procedure
Get a piercing that got infected
Lose a lot of weight
Have weight-loss surgery
Go from couch to 5K
Get properly fit for the first time
Get fit after 50
Get a personal trainer
Get injured from overtraining
Give up alcohol for a month
Kick a caffeine habit
Quit vaping
Get a good night's sleep after years of bad ones
Get diagnosed with sleep apnoea
Snore so loud I got sent to the sofa
Lose my sense of smell
Have vertigo
Get piles
Get arthritis
Need a walking stick
Have a hospital roommate I'll never forget
Get a second opinion
Change doctors after being dismissed
Be told it's all in my head and turn out to be right
Advocate for myself at the doctor
Take a medical leave from work
Lose a job because of my health
Live with a rare disease
Find out a hereditary risk in my family
Be a guinea pig in a clinical trial
Get every vaccine for a big trip
Faint at the sight of a needle
Cut off the tip of a finger
Burn myself badly cooking
Get a serious burn
Fall down the stairs
Crash my bike and end up in A&E
Get hurt at work
Get a sports injury
Step on a nail
Swallow something I shouldn't have
Get a black eye
Be choked and saved by the Heimlich
Save someone with the Heimlich
Take a first aid course
Have a seizure
Lose my hair to chemo
Get scabies

Mind & Mental Health 150

Have a panic attack
Think I was having a heart attack and it was panic
Live with anxiety
Get through a depression
Be diagnosed with depression
Stay in bed for days because I couldn't face the world
Have depression nobody around me noticed
Burn out completely
Take sick leave for burnout
Quit a job to save my mental health
Be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult
Suspect I'm neurodivergent and finally get assessed
Reread my whole childhood after a diagnosis
Be diagnosed with OCD
Be diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Be diagnosed with PTSD
Live with an eating disorder
Make peace with food
Make peace with my body
Live with body dysmorphia
Get help in a suicidal crisis
Call a crisis line
Survive a suicide attempt
Recover from self-harm
Be there for a friend in a suicidal crisis
Lose someone to suicide
Start therapy
Find the right therapist after a few wrong ones
Go to therapy for years
Cry through a whole therapy session
Do couples therapy
Do family therapy
Try group therapy
Try CBT
Do EMDR for trauma
Do therapy online
Pay for therapy I could barely afford
Wait months for a therapy appointment
Tell my therapist something I'd never told anyone
End therapy because I didn't need it anymore
Start psychiatric medication
Find the right medication after several tries
Come off antidepressants
Feel nothing on medication and switch
Stay on medication without shame
Spend time in a psychiatric ward
Be admitted to a psychiatric hospital voluntarily
Be sectioned or held involuntarily
Go to a day clinic
Get sober
Stay sober for a year
Go to an AA or NA meeting
Relapse and start again
Recognise I had a problem with drinking
Get help for a gambling problem
Get help for a porn addiction
Quit weed after years of daily use
Have a nervous breakdown
Fall apart and put myself back together
Hit rock bottom
Have a midlife crisis
Have a quarter-life crisis
Have an existential crisis at 3am
Go to grief counselling
Grieve a pet like a family member
Grieve someone who is still alive
Grieve a pregnancy loss
Have postnatal depression
Have postnatal anxiety
Have seasonal depression every winter
Use a light therapy lamp
Live with insomnia
Have recurring nightmares
Have sleep paralysis
Dissociate
Have intrusive thoughts
Have a phobia
Face my fear of flying
Get over a fear of driving
Get over social anxiety enough to go to a party alone
Have imposter syndrome
Get over a fear of public speaking
Be a perfectionist and learn to let go
Learn to say no
Set a boundary and stick to it
Cut off a toxic person
Cut contact with a family member
Leave an abusive relationship
Recognise I was being gaslit
Heal from childhood trauma
Work through my parents' mistakes
Realize I was the toxic one and change
Apologise for hurting someone while I was unwell
Tell my family about my mental health
Hide my mental illness at work
Be judged for my mental health
Talk openly about mental health with friends
Cry in public
Cry at work
Cry in the car before going in
Scream into a pillow
Have an anger problem and work on it
Go to anger management
Have a meltdown
Feel lonely in a crowded room
Go through a long stretch of loneliness
Feel lonely after moving to a new city
Feel lost after retirement
Feel empty after achieving a big goal
Have an empty nest crisis
Struggle with my identity
Question my gender
Come out to myself
Accept myself as queer
Get over religious guilt
Leave a religion and rebuild my worldview
Deal with internalised homophobia
Keep a journal
Write a letter I never sent
Practise mindfulness
Go on a silent retreat
Take a social media detox
Stop doom-scrolling
Learn to sit with uncomfortable feelings
Stop people-pleasing
Stop comparing myself to others
Learn to be alone without being lonely
Talk to myself kindly
Forgive myself
Let go of shame
Be proud of myself
Feel genuinely happy for the first time in years
Notice I'd been happy for a while without realising
Come out the other side of a dark time
Have a good day after a long bad stretch
Ask for help when I needed it
Help a friend through a dark time
Care for a family member with mental illness
Have a psychedelic experience that changed my outlook
Try ketamine therapy
Have hypnotherapy
Hear voices
Have a psychotic episode
Recover from psychosis
Take a career break to recover
Relearn how to rest
Walk it off and actually feel better
Have a dog that got me through a hard time
Become a peer supporter
Share my story to help someone else

Trouble & Bad Behavior 190

Get into a fistfight
Receive a slap in the face
Slap someone who deserved it
Get caught up in a bar brawl
Throw the first punch
Break my hand punching something
Get punched in the face
Have a fight in the schoolyard
Get into a fight with my sibling that came to blows
Throw a drink in someone's face
Shoplift as a kid
Shoplift as an adult
Get caught shoplifting
Steal from my parents' wallet
Steal a street sign
Pocket a hotel bathrobe
Take office supplies home from work
Walk out of a restaurant without paying
Dodge a train fare
Get caught fare dodging
Sneak into a concert
Sneak into a festival without a ticket
Sneak into a cinema without paying
Crash a wedding I wasn't invited to
Trespass on private property
Climb a fence I wasn't supposed to
Break into an abandoned building
Climb onto a roof at night
Spray graffiti on a wall
Carve my initials into a tree or desk
Egg someone's house
Ring a doorbell and run away
Make prank phone calls
Set off a fire alarm on purpose
Lie to get out of work
Call in sick when I wasn't
Fake sick to skip school
Forge my parent's signature
Cheat on a test
Get caught cheating on an exam
Copy someone's homework
Plagiarize an essay
Skip school for a whole day
Get detention
Get sent to the principal's office
Get suspended from school
Get expelled from school
Get thrown out of class
Drop out of school
Sneak out of the house at night
Get caught sneaking back in
Sneak a boyfriend or girlfriend into my room
Lie about my age to get into a club
Use a fake ID
Buy alcohol for underage friends
Drink in public and get fined
Get arrested
Get handcuffed
Ride in the back of a police car
Have my mugshot taken
Get let off with a warning by the police
Get a criminal record
Go to court as the accused
Plead guilty in court
Get community service
Get put on probation
Serve time in prison
Visit someone in prison
Get pulled over by the police
Get a speeding ticket
Drive without a license
Get a parking ticket
Get my car towed
Run a red light
Rack up unpaid parking fines
Get kicked out of a club by the bouncer
Get banned from a bar for life
Get banned from a shop
Get kicked off a flight
Get escorted out by security
Get kicked out of a party
Run from the police
Get chased by security
Get caught red-handed
Get caught in a lie
Get caught masturbating
Get walked in on by my parents
Get caught kissing someone I shouldn't
Have sex in a public place
Get caught peeing in public
Get busted for possession
Grow weed at home
Throw up in a taxi
Black out and wake up somewhere I didn't recognize
Drive home when I'd had too much to drink
Wake up next to a stranger
Gamble away my rent money
Lose a lot of money at a casino
Bet money I didn't have
Borrow money and never pay it back
Owe money to the wrong people
Bounce a check
Cheat on my taxes
Work cash in hand off the books
Lie on my CV
Get fired for misconduct
Quit a job without notice
Walk out of a job mid-shift
Tell my boss exactly what I think of them
Get drunk at the office party and regret it
Ghost someone I was dating
Break up with someone by text
Lie about my relationship status
Have an affair
Be the other woman or the other man
Sleep with my friend's ex
Sleep with my boss
Snoop through my partner's phone
Read someone's diary
Take revenge on an ex
Get revenge on someone who wronged me
Key someone's car
Throw my partner's clothes out of the window
Post something nasty about someone online
Leave a brutal review out of spite
Start a rumor about someone
Have a screaming match in public
Have a shouting match with a neighbor
Slam a door so hard something broke
Throw my phone in anger
Smash a plate during a fight
Swear at a teacher
Get into a road rage incident
Flip someone off in traffic
Say something unforgivable in a fight
Stop speaking to a family member for years
Get disowned by my family
Get kicked out by my family for being gay
Come out and get thrown out of my church
Be a bad friend
Betray a friend's secret
Throw a friend under the bus to save myself
Take credit for someone else's work
Blame someone else for my mistake
Let someone else take the fall for me
Lie under oath
Pretend to be someone else online
Catfish someone
Sext someone I shouldn't have
Send a nude to the wrong person
Show up drunk at my ex's door
Hit on someone way out of line
Get into a fight at a football match
Get into a fight at a family wedding
Get tear-gassed at a protest
Get pepper-sprayed
Pick a fight I couldn't win
Back down from a fight
Get beaten up and lose
Break up a fight between friends
Get grounded for a whole month
Get my phone confiscated
Sneak a drink from my parents' liquor cabinet
Take my parents' car without asking
Damage a rental car and say nothing
Dent a parked car and drive off
Get stopped at customs
Smuggle something through customs
Overstay a visa
Get deported
Get denied entry to a country
Scam a scammer
Return something I had already used
Use someone else's streaming password
Pirate movies and music
Cut in line and get called out
Pretend not to speak the language to avoid someone
Hide from my landlord
Do a moonlight flit to skip the rent
Get into a fight with a stranger on the internet
Get banned from a social media platform
Get banned from an online game
Get sued
Sue someone
Get a call from a debt collector
Have the police called on my party
Get a noise complaint
Get evicted for bad behavior
Confess to something I did years ago
Apologize for something terrible I did

Loss & Hard Times 125

Lose a parent
Lose both parents
Lose a grandparent
Lose a sibling
Lose a child
Lose a partner
Become a widow or widower
Lose my best friend
Lose a friend to suicide
Lose someone to cancer
Lose someone to AIDS
Go through a stillbirth
Struggle with infertility
Go through IVF that didn't work
Have my pet die
Have a pet put to sleep
Lose a pet that never came home
Rehome a pet I couldn't keep
Go to a funeral
Give the eulogy
Carry a coffin
Scatter someone's ashes
Plan a funeral
Clear out a loved one's home after they died
Sit at a deathbed
Be there when someone took their last breath
Say goodbye at a hospice
Care for a dying relative
Care for a parent with dementia
Have a parent no longer recognize me
Become the carer for my partner
Put a parent in a care home
Have to turn off someone's life support
Get the phone call that someone has died
Miss a funeral I should have gone to
Never get to say goodbye
Grieve someone I wasn't allowed to mourn openly
Lose my partner and be shut out by their family
Grieve for an estranged parent
Go through a divorce
Go through a messy custody battle
Only see my kids every other weekend
Be estranged from my own child
Get dumped
Call off a wedding
Have my heart broken
Lose the love of my life
Have a long-term relationship end
Move out after a breakup
Have a friendship end
Get dumped by a friend
Fall out with my whole friend group
Be lonely for a long time
Spend a vacation completely alone
Have nobody to call in an emergency
Lose my job
Get laid off
Get fired
Be unemployed for over a year
Live on unemployment benefits
Lose my business
Go bankrupt
Lose my savings in a bad investment
Have my house repossessed
Get evicted
Be homeless
Sleep rough on the street
Sleep in my car
Sleep on friends' sofas for months
Live in a homeless shelter
Use a food bank
Go hungry because I couldn't afford food
Have my power cut off for not paying
Choose between heating and eating
Skip meals so my kids could eat
Pawn something precious to pay the bills
Sell my belongings to make rent
Move back in with my parents as an adult
Lose my home in a house fire
Have my home burgled
Have my car stolen
Have my identity stolen
Lose a family heirloom
Survive a car crash
Be in a serious accident
Survive a natural disaster
Live through an earthquake
Live through a hurricane
Lose my home in a flood
Be evacuated from a wildfire
Flee my home country as a refugee
Start over in a new country as a refugee
Live in a refugee camp
Be separated from my family by a border
Never be able to go home again
Lose my language and culture in a new country
Live through a pandemic lockdown
Spend a long time in hospital
Get a serious diagnosis
Survive cancer
Have major surgery
Lose my sight or hearing
Have a breakdown
Go through a deep depression
Be hospitalized for my mental health
Watch someone I love struggle with addiction
Watch my parents divorce as a kid
Grow up poor
Grow up in foster care
Be put up for adoption
Find out I was adopted
Find out my father wasn't my father
Lose my faith
Leave a religion and lose my community
Have my factory or mine close down
Fail at my dream and give it up
Get rejected from my dream school
Have a career-ending injury
Retire and feel lost
Lose my independence in old age
Outlive all my friends
Watch my children move far away
Be the last one left from my family
Live with regret for something I can't undo
Start my life over from scratch

Work & Money 185

Work a minimum-wage job
Wait tables
Work a night shift
Work two jobs at the same time
Quit a job on the spot
Walk out mid-shift and never come back
Work for a toxic boss
Get a promotion
Get passed over for a promotion I deserved
Get turned down for a raise
Go on strike
Cross a picket line
Join a union
Become a union rep
Claim unemployment benefits
Get food from a food bank
Take out a payday loan
Be broke at the end of the month
Live paycheck to paycheck
Inherit money
Inherit nothing but debt
Win money on a scratch card
Win a big sum gambling
Lose my rent money in one night
Invest in the stock market
Have a corner office
Manage a team of people
Fire someone
Lay off people I liked
Work from home in my pajamas
Join a video meeting with no pants on
Forget to mute myself on a work call
Start a side hustle
Get roped into an MLM
Try to recruit friends into an MLM
Have a job interview go completely wrong
Be rich enough to stop checking prices
Work a job I hated for years
Cry in the bathroom at work
Work retail during the vacation rush
Deal with a customer screaming at me
Get stiffed on a tip
Live off tips
Get a really generous tip
Work in a call center
Work in a warehouse
Work on a factory line
Work on a construction site
Work in a fast food kitchen
Work as a cleaner
Clean other people's toilets for a living
Work as a nanny or au pair
Work as a bartender
Work as a delivery driver
Drive for a ride-share app
Deliver food on a bike in the rain
Not get paid at all for work I did
Bluff my way into a job I wasn't qualified for
Lie on my resume
Get caught lying on my resume
Turn down a job offer
Accept a job and then back out
Get a job through a friend
Work for my parents' business
Work in the family business against my will
Be the boss's kid at work
Have a work spouse
Hook up with a coworker
Report someone to HR
Get reported to HR
Sign an NDA to leave a job
Take a company to an employment tribunal
Get a severance package
Get a bonus bigger than my old salary
Get no bonus at all after a great year
Find out a coworker earns way more than me
Be the only woman in the room
Stay in the closet at work
Be told I'm too young for a job
Train my own replacement
Get replaced by software
Survive a round of layoffs
Lose my job in a recession
Be unemployed for more than six months
Send out a hundred job applications
Never hear back from a job application
Get ghosted after a final interview
Have a panic attack before a presentation
Give a presentation that went brilliantly
Fall asleep in a meeting
Work over a vacation
Work a 70-hour week
Steal from work
Take office supplies home
Reply-all by accident
Badmouth a job in an exit interview
Leave a job with a dramatic speech
Rage-quit by email
Change careers after 40
Have my business fail
Hire my first employee
Miss payroll
Freelance
Sell my stuff to pay the bills
Pawn something to get by
Go into my overdraft
Get my card declined at the checkout
Put groceries back because I couldn't afford them
Hide from a debt collector at the door
Declare bankruptcy
Live on instant noodles to save money
Borrow money from my parents
Owe money to someone dangerous
Receive welfare or social assistance
Apply for disability benefits
Owe the tax office a lot of money
Get audited
Get a raise that made no real difference
Have a financial advisor
Own a second home
Hire a cleaner
Hire a personal assistant
Have staff
Have an expense account
Go on a company retreat
Do a trust fall at a team-building day
Go to a networking event and talk to nobody
Wear a uniform for work
Work in a job where I stood all day
Get injured at work
Work outdoors in all weather
Work in another country without papers
Send money home to family abroad
Support my parents financially
Be the main breadwinner
Be a stay-at-home parent
Be financially supported by a partner
Sell feet pics or adult content online
Become a manager and hate it
Be micromanaged
Micromanage someone
Write my own performance review
Be put on a performance improvement plan
Change jobs every year
Take a big pay cut for a better life
Work part-time by choice
Take parental leave
Go back to work after having a baby
Hide a pregnancy at a job interview
Have a pension
Check my retirement savings and panic
Work past retirement age
Babysit for pocket money
Do a paper round
Mow lawns for cash
Spend my first paycheck
Open my first payslip and be disappointed by the tax
Save up for something for months
Buy now and regret paying later
Get a loan from a bank
Get rejected for a loan
Get rejected for a mortgage
Get scammed out of money online
Give my kids an allowance
Pay for my kid's university
Fight with my siblings over an inheritance
Sign a prenup
Hide money from a partner
Have a secret bank account
Give up on budgeting
Never take all my vacation days
Make a living from social media
Win an employee of the month award
Get mentored by someone who changed my career
Get poached by a competitor
Sue my employer
Blow the whistle on my employer
Get escorted out of the building
Cash out my savings to get by
Stop working because of illness
Work through chronic pain
Buy property as an investment
Own shares in the company I work for
Get rich from stock options
Donate a large sum of money

Identity & Belonging 135

Come out to my best friend
Come out at work
Come out on social media
Come out more than once in my life
Come out later in life
Have a parent react badly to my coming out
Have a parent hug me when I came out
March in a Pride parade
Go to a Pride event in a small town
Do drag on stage
Do drag for a costume party
Tip a drag queen
Go to a drag brunch
Go to a queer club night
Kiss someone of the same gender in public
Hold hands with a same-sex partner in public
Realize I'm bisexual
Use a new label for myself
Stop using labels for myself
Change my pronouns
Try out new pronouns with friends
Change my first name
Take my spouse's last name
Keep my own name after marriage
Go back to my maiden name
Be misgendered
Misgender someone and apologize
Wear clothes of another gender
Wear makeup as a man
Get a gender-affirming haircut
Change the gender marker on my ID
Be read as a different gender by a stranger
Be the only man in the room
Be the only working-class kid in a posh school
Face racism to my face
Face sexism at work
Face ageism at a job interview
Face homophobia from a stranger
Be called a slur
Be stopped by police because of how I look
Be followed around a shop by security
Have my name mispronounced for years
Use an easier name to fit in
Reclaim my real name
Be asked "where are you really from?"
Get told I speak good English in my own country
Feel too foreign at home and too local abroad
Live in another culture
Hold two passports
Give up a citizenship
Be an immigrant
Be a refugee
Apply for asylum
Live somewhere without speaking the language
Lose my mother tongue
Visit the country my family came from
Find relatives in my ancestral village
Take a DNA ancestry test
Meet my birth parents
Discover a family secret about my origins
Lose my accent
Get my accent back
Code-switch between home and work
Hide where I grew up
Be the first in my family to go to university
Move up a class and feel out of place
Lose touch with friends after moving up in the world
Feel ashamed of my parents in front of others
Stop feeling ashamed of where I'm from
Grow up rich and feel guilty about it
Live with a visible disability
Get a diagnosis that explained my whole life
Find out I'm autistic as an adult
Stop hiding a disability
Use a wheelchair in public for the first time
Join a minority support group
Find my people
Join a queer sports team
Find a chosen community at a festival
Feel at home in a new city
Convert to a religion
Leave my religion
Return to the faith I grew up with
Get baptized
Get confirmed
Have a bat mitzvah
Fast for Ramadan
Break the fast at an iftar
Fast for Yom Kippur
Give something up for Lent
Celebrate Diwali
Celebrate Eid with a family not my own
Go to a Passover seder
Go on a pilgrimage
Make the Hajj
Go on a silent meditation retreat
Pray when I don't believe
Pray for someone else
Go to a service of a religion not my own
Get married in a religion that isn't mine
Wear a headscarf
Stop wearing a headscarf
Start wearing a turban
Wear religious jewelry in public
Be shunned by a religious community
Be excommunicated
Leave a cult or high-control group
Speak in tongues
Be prayed over
Have my faith questioned by my own children
Raise my kids in two faiths
Argue with a missionary at my door
Serve a religious mission abroad
Wear traditional dress to a wedding
Cook my grandmother's recipes from her homeland
Teach someone about my culture
Explain my identity to a confused relative
Be told my identity is just a phase
Be told I don't look gay
Be told I'm not a real man
Stand up for someone facing discrimination
Report discrimination at work
Join a protest for my rights
Vote in a country I wasn't born in
Be elected to represent my community
Wear a rainbow pin at work
Be an ally at someone else's Pride
Mentor a younger queer person
Mentor someone who's the first in their family
Celebrate the anniversary of my transition
Go to a Trans Day of Remembrance vigil
Go to a Juneteenth celebration
Go to a powwow
Fly my flag at home
Feel proud of who I am

Online & Tech 130

Go viral
Get cancelled online
Get piled on in the comments
Start a flame war
Get doxxed
Get hacked
Have my email account hijacked
Get my data leaked in a data breach
Get scammed online
Nearly fall for a phishing email
Lose money to an online scam
Delete all my social media
Take a month off the internet
Have an online friendship for years
Meet an internet friend in person
Have an online relationship
Be in a group chat that ran my life
Leave a group chat dramatically
Rage-quit a game
Get to the top of an online leaderboard
Spend real money on a game skin
Lose a whole weekend to a new game
Join a guild or clan
Play an MMO for years
Go to a gaming convention
Go to a LAN party
Stream myself gaming
Stream to an audience of zero
Get my first follower
Hit 1,000 followers
Get a paycheck from content creation
Become an influencer
Get paid for a sponsored post
Have a parasocial crush on a streamer
Donate to a streamer
Get noticed by a celebrity online
Get blocked by a celebrity
Get a reply from someone famous
Buy something stupid online at 3am
Have a package arrive that I don't remember ordering
Doomscroll until sunrise
Have a phone addiction
Set a screen-time limit and ignore it
Check my phone first thing every morning
Switch to a dumbphone
Lose my phone and panic
Have a conversation with an AI chatbot
Ask an AI for life advice
Tell a chatbot something I never told a person
Use AI to write a message I should have written myself
Have a dating-app match from another country
Swipe on a dating app for the first time
Get ghosted after a great date
Send a risky text and regret it
Send a text to the wrong person
Sext someone
Have a nude leak
Get a revenge-porn photo taken down
Get sent an unsolicited nude
Video-call a lover on another continent
Build my own PC
Upgrade my graphics card
Install Linux
Jailbreak my phone
Code my first program
Contribute to an open-source project
Make a website from scratch with HTML
Run my own server
Buy crypto
Make money on crypto
Buy an NFT
Get into day trading on an app
Invest my savings in a meme stock
Mine bitcoin
Lose the password to a crypto wallet
Write a viral tweet
Write a post that started a real debate
Have a meme I made spread around the world
Become a meme
Have my photo stolen for a fake profile
Find a fake profile of myself
Look up a first date before meeting them
Google myself
Be the top search result for my name
Unfollow a family member
Mute a friend's posts
Block my own parent online
Accept my boss's friend request
Fight with a stranger in the comments
Leave a one-star review out of spite
Write a fan fiction
Join a fandom
Get into an online conspiracy rabbit hole
Fall for a fake news story
Report a post for hate speech
Moderate an online forum
Get banned from a forum
Run an anonymous account
Have a secret finsta
Post a selfie with no filter
Use a face filter on a video call
Get a phone call from a deepfake scammer
Work fully remote from home
Join a work call from bed
Accidentally unmute myself on a call
Forget my camera was on
Join a Discord server and make real friends
Run a podcast
Post a TikTok dance
Write a blog nobody read
Sell something on eBay
Buy something used from a stranger online
Get a refund after a fight with customer service
Crowdfund a project
Donate to a stranger's fundraiser online
Have my livestream raided
Get recognized from the internet in the street
Livestream an event as it happened
Keep a streak alive on an app for a year
Lose a long streak on an app
Spend more on apps than on groceries
Read all the terms and conditions once
Teach my parents to use a smartphone
Fix a relative's computer at a family dinner
Go back through ten years of my own posts
Delete an old embarrassing post
Have a post screenshotted before I deleted it
Keep an online diary
Leave a digital will for my accounts
Memorialize a loved one's account

Everyday Life 175

Lose my keys
Lock myself out of my home
Lock my keys in the car
Miss the last train home
Get lost without a phone
Have my phone die at the worst moment
Get a flat tire
Change a tire myself
Run out of gas
Get stuck in a traffic jam for hours
Sit through a power cut
Lose power for days
Assemble flat-pack furniture
Have leftover screws after building furniture
Fight with my partner while assembling furniture
Move house
Move with everything I own in one car
Move back in with my parents
Live with roommates
Live with a roommate from hell
Have a roommate steal my food
Leave a passive-aggressive note
Have a noisy neighbor
Call the police on a neighbor
Fall out with a neighbor
Become friends with a neighbor
Know none of my neighbors' names
Have a plumbing disaster
Flood the bathroom
Unblock a toilet
Clog a toilet at someone else's house
Find mold in my home
Have mice in my home
Have cockroaches in my home
Burn dinner
Set off the smoke alarm cooking
Start a small kitchen fire
Eat cereal for dinner
Eat dinner standing over the sink
Order takeout three nights in a row
Live on toast for a week
Stay in bed all day
Spend a whole weekend not leaving the house
Do nothing all day and feel great about it
Do laundry at a laundromat
Shrink my favorite clothes in the wash
Dye all my whites pink
Live out of the clean laundry pile
Get stuck in an elevator
Serve on jury duty
Get a pet
Get a cat
Kill every houseplant I own
Keep a houseplant alive for years
Cycle to work
Shave my head
Cry at a hairdresser
Tell the hairdresser I love it when I hate it
Get pickpocketed
Drop my phone in the toilet
Crack my phone screen
Scratch someone's car and leave a note
Fall asleep on the train and miss my stop
Sit next to someone weird on the bus
Get a seat on a packed train
Run for a bus and miss it
Dodge a fare
Get scammed by a phone call
Fall for a phishing email
Forget my password for the hundredth time
Get locked out of my own account
Lose all my photos when a phone died
Turn off my phone for a whole day
Binge an entire series in one weekend
Fall asleep in front of the TV
Argue about the TV remote
Forget someone's birthday
Forget why I walked into a room
Leave the house in my slippers
Wear two different shoes by accident
Walk around with spinach in my teeth
Walk into a glass door
Hide from someone I know at the supermarket
Get stuck talking to someone for an hour
Go to the supermarket for one thing and leave with fifty
Forget my shopping bags
Have an argument in a parking lot
Find money on the street
Lose a lot of cash
Get a letter I was afraid to open
Ignore a bill until it went red
Get the water or electricity cut off
Shower at a friend's place because mine was broken
Take a cold shower because the hot water ran out
Live without heating
Sleep in my coat because it was cold inside
Live in a house share with strangers
Live in a big house with too many rooms
Have a cleaner come every week
Clean the whole house in a manic burst
Find something I'd lost for years
Paint a room myself
Fix something by hitting it
Get a delivery left with the wrong neighbor
Wait in all day for a delivery that never came
Get a package stolen from my doorstep
Start a diet on Monday
Give up a diet by Wednesday
Have a cheat day that turned into a cheat week
Walk 10,000 steps in a day
Make my bed every morning
Wake up and not know what day it is
Set five alarms and sleep through all of them
Have insomnia for weeks
Nap in the middle of the day
Drink too much coffee and get the shakes
Run out of toilet paper
Go to the emergency room in the middle of the night
Wait hours in a hospital waiting room
Go to the dentist after years of avoiding it
Lose a filling while eating
Get stung by a wasp
Get head lice as an adult
Look after a sick partner
Pick up a friend at 3am
Get a call in the middle of the night that changed everything
Be the person everyone calls in a crisis
Babysit a friend's kids
Spend a vacation alone
Celebrate a birthday alone
Make small talk about the weather
Have a long chat with a stranger at a bus stop
Help a stranger carry something
Give directions while lost myself
Go the wrong way on the subway
Get on the wrong train
Read the whole manual for something
Recycle properly for once
Get caught in a downpour without an umbrella
Get sunburned on a cloudy day
Spend a Sunday doing life admin
Renew my passport at the last minute
Sign a petition
Leave a glowing review
Pay a library fine
Have a favorite cafe where they know my order
Talk to my plants
Dance alone in my kitchen
Have a good cry and feel better
Wear the same clothes three days running
Find a gray hair
Find my first wrinkle
Repaint my nails while watching TV
Wax my own legs badly
Shave my legs for the first time in months
Shop for clothes and buy nothing
Buy the same top in three colors
Get a mystery bruise
Clean out the fridge and find something alive
Defrost the freezer
Cook a meal from whatever was left in the cupboard
Let the dishes pile up for a week
Fight about whose turn it is to do the dishes
Share one bathroom with five people
Walk the dog in the rain
Pick up dog poop in a bag
Have a raccoon or fox raid my bins
Mow the lawn
Hang laundry out to dry
Iron a shirt badly
Sew a button back on
Patch my own jeans
Get a mortgage and panic about it
Get locked in a public toilet
Have a bird poop on me

The Big Life List: 3002 things to do and live through

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Love & Family 142

Adventure & Sport 96

Nature & Wildlife 89

World Travel 40

Europe 111

Asia 88

Africa & Middle East 70

The Americas 105

Oceania & Islands 40

Theme Parks 17

Music & Events 79

Food & Drink 96

Learning 67

Art & Making 59

Milestones 68

Giving Back 51

Fun & Friends 90

Wild Side 59

Treat Yourself 40

Drugs & Booze 150

Sex & Dating 170

Body & Health 185

Mind & Mental Health 150

Trouble & Bad Behavior 190

Loss & Hard Times 125

Work & Money 185

Identity & Belonging 135

Online & Tech 130

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