Goals in General

Wow, this whole Big, Fun, Scary Adventure thing has really gotten my mind thinking about goals. I've come across so many people's lists of goals, and seeing what they want to accomplish in a month, in a year, in 1001 days...well, it's gotten me thinking of so many things that I want to accomplish, too!

Now, I don't want to add TOO many things to this year's list, or tweak it any more than I already have - that would just be a little stupid. I also think I should hold off on randomly making one of those Mission 101 lists (the one where you think up 101 goals you want to accomplish in 1001 days - which, as one person calculated, is a period of about 2 years and 9 months), since I don't want to end up with a rushed list (or an artificial one).

So maybe I'll just compile some goals in general...maybe on a special date or something, I'll bring together 101 goals I'd like to do in 1001 days. I mean, 2 years and 9 months is a long time, and will take me out of high school. In fact, if I started today (which I won't), I'll probably have already gotten so used to not being in high school, I'll barely be able to remember it as "present day"! Kind of like how it is with middle school...ahahah. ^_^;;

Perhaps it's because I have to go to school tomorrow after two weeks of winter break, and I'm on a break between an SAT practice test (3 hours and 45 minutes of FUN FUN FUN) and a review math assignment (and I hate math - and have a test on Wednesday) that I feel like anything is possible as long as I write it down as a goal RIGHT NOW...

I don't know.

But it might be nice to write down some goals for...I don't really know what sort of time period. A couple years? By the end of high school? 1001 days? By the end of college? By the birth/adoption of my first child? By the time I die? I don't know. Maybe, for these, I'll try to keep it down to a few years or less. Some of these super-long-term goals seem...a bit daunting. I'm not even sure if I know what to think up for them! (I mean, I'll probably live quite a few more decades, unless I reach an unlikely and untimely demise at, like, 30 or something - which would suck. I DON'T WANT TO DIE AT 30, THANKYOUVERYMUCH.)

SO ANYWAY! Since I've been compiling all my goals down in this blog, I guess I should continue to add any goals I think up here. Goals, ideas...it seems like a good place. Easier to type sometimes than it is to write in my journal. :P

So...some new goals, in fancy little sections for easy labeling (I hope):

TRAVEL
- Go to somewhere in every non-Antarctica continent (need to go to: South America, Africa, Europe, Australia) (have been to: North America, Asia)...and, if Antarctic travel becomes more widespread, then I'll go there :P
- Go to every country in the United Kingdom (I haven't ever been to Europe, by the way)
- Go to Italy
- Go to Japan for a month or more
- Go to New Zealand AND Australia (not just one!)
- Go back to Wyoming (Grant Teton area)
- Go back to Arizona and Utah (or Southwest in general) and STAY AWHILE
- See more of California - especially the far north and the far south - before I move out of state (either in college or after)
- Be able to fill a photo book with 100 photos of National Parks (or Monuments, etc.) I've been to - but with no more than 1 photo per park (so basically...go to 100 parks)
- Go on an overnight train trip through the western United States
CREATIVITY
- Take photos of everything I love about the town and surrounding area I live in before I leave for college
- Start and fill up a "collection book"
- Write multiple novel drafts each year!
- Compile photo books of the things that mean a lot to me
- Get published (eventually...something...right?)
- Make a book (maybe even the paper, too), and use it as a journal - even if it means writing on LINELESS PAGES (omg... :P )
- Draw some sort of thing in sequential art - even if the art itself sucks
EDUCATION
- Take a class in creative writing
- Take a class in photography or drawing or some sort of enjoyable art!
- Become fluent in Japanese (I've been studying for 5 years - but the classes are too easy)
- Learn Mandarin
- Learn at least one of the following: Korean, Cantonese, Arabic, Italian
- Study abroad somewhere! Anywhere!
HEALTH/PERSONAL
- Become very fit...
- Become a vegetarian for a month or more
- Tell someone I like that I like them
- Go on a date
- Either have or adopt a child (umm...this one is long-term, okay? :P )
- Live, for a year or more, somewhere where they get actual snow (and it would be nice if it stayed on the ground, so I would have to learn how to deal with it)
- Be able to live by myself for an extended period of time (like, not even with a roommate)
INSANE
- Go parasailing, hangliding, skydiving, or something that mimics flying through the air!
- Go scuba diving
- Travel by myself to a place I've never been to, outside of any major international cities, where I know nobody and know none of the language, and stay there for two weeks or more (such as...like...somewhere in rural Africa)

I'll probably edit or add to this later, but I'm 17 minutes late to starting my math assignment. Gaah, I hate math. >_<