Wishes are something beautiful that everyone has.
They give us all hope, and joy; it's just something to always look forward to.
Wishes are put in many different forms, Bucket Lists, Wish Lists, Letters to Santa, etc.
But, wherever they're found, they all instill an absolute feeling of hope.
So here is my List of Wishes:
1. Help someone else fulfill their wishlist, no matter how large or small it is.
2. Find true happiness.
3. Write a novel...a decent one...of epic proportions.
4. Convince someone to do something they never thought they'd do, and maybe teach a lesson to them while doing it.
5. Write, compose, design, and ultimately create and perform my own one man play.
6. Keep a pen for more than a week (I swear I go through them like [insert clever simile here])
7. Go to college, graduate with a bachelor's degree. Then, as I find the time and money, go back to be uber awesome at it...Then spend the money I make afterwards helping my parents live life after my brother and I move out.
8. Rescue a litter of pups/kittens and raise them all. (But I swear I won't let it get out of hand. I will NOT be a hoarder)
9. Eventually learn how to get what I want to say out of my mind and into actual words. I can only seem to do that when I write. /sigh.
10. (Cliche, but whatever) Find true love.
11. Once I find true love, have the balls to ask her to be mine.
12. Once that happens, live my life to make her happy. She will be my world.
13. Protect her.
14. Spend time with cancer patients of any age to be there for them. 3/4 of my great grandparents died of cancer, along with a friend of mine who was only 10. I have a high chance of getting cancer (genetics), and I want to be there for people who are going through it just like my family and friend did.
15. Open a Nature Center (or start a program at an already existing one) for kids with Autism. Being an animal person, I've noticed that many kids somehow connect with animals, in a way they don't always connect with people. I've seen just how powerful of an impact animals can have on kids with Autism. I want to show them there's hope, and happiness, and beauty in life.
16. Become close friends with a blind person. They see the world in such an amazing perspective. And I'm being dead serious.
17. Learn sign language and teach a group of deaf kids.
18. Show any and all kids that they can be the change in the world.
19. Learn how to enjoy life.
20. Learn how to play piano fluently.
21. Learn how to sing.
22. Combine wishes 20 and 21 to make a beautiful song.
23. Describe things with a word other than beautiful...
24. Live on the streets, even if for just a day and a night, just to see what it's like, and to know what the less fortunate go through in their lives.
25. Leave a sticky note saying something along the lines of "You're amazing, beautiful, talented, and unique. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise" everywhere I sit down for a day, so that someone might see it, read it, and become happier.
26. Become a band with a one-hit wonder, so that I may enjoy being a musician, but be able to move on and do other things soon after.
27. Continue photography for the rest of my life.
28. Successfully achieve my dream of showing people that nature isn't all about big cats and tiger sharks.
29. Prove wrong everyone who didn't believe in me during my childhood.
30. Have a great laugh with a total stranger.
31. Become a bus driver. Just because.
32. Invent a food as ingenious as a hot dog or a corndog.
33. Find a way to allow pet owners to take their pet home after its been euthanized. After my first dog had to be put down, I learned right after, in the midst of my tears, I wouldn't be able to bury him in my backyard alongside the cat he grew up with. Instead, he was the "state's property", and was shipped to God knows where, far away from home where he belonged.
34. Be able to look back at the memory of my first dog (he was my life, my pride, my joy, my friend while I grew up) with the happier memories, rather than just that one last hour I had with him in the back room of some vet office, crying and telling him it would be over soon.
35. Pray to God that I won't have the same outcome when my current cat dies. I've raised him since he was two weeks old, and its been 6 years now.
36. Join the Peace Corps to help kids in third world countries.
37. Visit other countries and learn of new wildlife that inhabit there.
38. Hold an epic 2 hour long light saber battle with a girl that loves doing such things.
39. do wish 38, but with nerf guns.
40. Do wish 39, but with pool noodles.
41. Play Marco Polo in Wal-Mart
42. Play with fire.
43. Win a staring contest with a statue. (I'll be bringing a sledgehammer, just in case I almost lose)
44. Join a caravan.
45. Write a story/design a game/create a movie with as intense and twisting and thrilling storyline as Kingdom Hearts has.
46. Dress as Link from Legend of Zelda (not Twilight Princess, though...not one of my favorite games) for an entire day.
47. Forge a sword all by myself.
48. Learn how to swim. (Yep, thats right. I'm 17 and still don't know how to swim.)
49. Dance in the rain.
50. Kiss in the rain.
51. Swim with manta rays.
52. Do yoga.
53. Make bubblegum flavored toothpaste. Or bacon flavored. Or sour gummy worm flavored.
54. Donate my extra kidney.
55. If need be, I'd even donate one of my eyes so someone could see again.
56. Spend time in Antartica, studying penguins.
57. Find a way to make a 51st state in the U.S. I'm sure there's room somewhere. I mean, Alaska is all the way up past the U.S.-Canada border.
58. Go to Panama to see my favorite snake: The Eyelash Viper.
59. Volunteer during one of my future summers to help save animals that are victims of oil spills.
60. Work at a rehab center for suicidal/depressed people...Especially kids. Been in that stage before. No one should have to go through that alone.
61. Be a walk-in part in a Broadway show.
62. One day conquer all of my fears.
63. Get over my quick-to-anger, and learn to live calmly.
64. Finally be able to pull of my beanie-jacket-baggy jeans combo I've been wanting to do since 6th grade. Between living in a hot, arid state and the public school hat-codes, I have to wait another year.
65. Become vegetarian for the healthy benefits. I like my meat, but I seriously need to lose some weight. -.-
66. Live on a beach.
67. Live in a forest.
68. Live on a lakeside shore.
69. Live in a desert.
70. Live on the water, because that's just epic. >:D
71. Learn how to prepare my own sushi.
72. Eat my own sushi.
73. Eat more sushi period, because sushi is delicious.
74. Host a masquerade.
75. Own a pet sugarglider that will attack people's faces on command.
76.Pull three all-nighters in a row. One night, go through town taking after-dark photographs; the second night, spend the night drawing things from my dreams as a child; the third night, writing about a quest to make dreams a reality, but how reality as we know it starts crashing down in the process, causing mayhem, terror, and, in all actuality, a living nightmare.
77. Find a way to naturally sleep for like 2 days straight.
78. Travel along with the geese as they migrate from North to South and back North again.
79. Do the same thing, but with Monarch Butterflies.
80. Become a Game Show host.
81. Become a Food Network judge.
82. Find something to live for.
83. Never let it go.
84. Share it with others.
85. Successfully sail across the Pacific with a crew of friends.
86. Don't let jealousy get to me as quickly as it does now.
87. One day overcome my paranoia of darkness. (Yes, thats right. 17 years old, can't swim, AND am afraid of the dark.)
88. Complete whatever the largest puzzle in the world is.
89. Eat an entire large pizza by myself (I have a relatively small appetite)
90. Have a classic "Lady and the Tramp" moment while eating spaghetti with a girl. Though, I actually hate spaghetti, so lets make it something with Asian food. Maybe Pad Thai?
91. Start a dance competition in somewhere random, such as a gym.
92. Shoot someone with a potato gun then run before they can hit me with a marshmallow gun.
93. Own a marshmallow gun.
94. Make art with a nail gun.
95. Have an easter egg hunt...combined with a nerf war...combined with a game of bloody mary.
96. Sleep on a trampoline for a whole summer under the stars like I used to do with a friend I don't talk to anymore.
97. Finally snap a great photo of a snail...Oddly enough, that is the one animal I wish I could always have around to take pictures of.
98. Learn how to skate on the ice.
99. Learn how to cry on command.
100. Have stories to tell my future kids/grandkids of about my life.
