My Impossible List

A couple of weeks ago, I came upon this website Impossible HQ where I read an article about the Impossible List. Rather than a bucket list, an impossible list has goals that are seemingly impossible (hence the title) and is constantly changing and expanding. This appealed to me because you could break down these impossible goals into stages to make them manageable, track your accomplishments, and overall help me grow and become the person I'm meant to be. So with that said, here is my Impossible List.

Life

•  Change one person’s life in a good way
• Build a treehouse
•  Create something that changes more peoples lives in the years to come
• Do one random act of kindness a day
• Make someone cry of happiness
• Adopt a child
• Build and design my own house 

Fitness

• 50 consecutive pushups
• 100 consecutive squats
• Run a mile in 7 minutes
•  Run a 5K
• Run a Half Marathon
•  Run a Marathon
•  Swim 20 consecutive laps
•  Do a Pullup
•  Do Zumba or some crazy dance workout
• Learn how to Belly-dance
• Get a black belt in Karate (Currently a Purple Belt, one more level to go) 

Travel

• Study abroad
• Backpack around Europe for a few months
• Backpack around the world for a year and make a film or write a book about it
• Visit every continent (3/7) (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica)
• Visit every country in Europe
• Road trip coast to coast (U.S.) and make a film or write a book about it
• Visit all the states in the US (Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Missouri)
• Live somewhere in Europe for at least a year (apart from study abroad)
• Own properties in 5 different countries (2/5) (US, Paraguay)
• Visit the ten most beautiful places in each continent.
• Europe (Mykonos, Provençal hills, Capri, Venice)
• Visit 10 countries (11/150) | 20 countries | 50 countries | 100 countries |150 countries
•  Go on a Safari
• Go on a pilgrimage
• Live on a boat for 3 months 

Minimalism

• Go without a phone for a month
•  Go without a car for a month
• Go without internet for a month 

Adrenaline Rushes

• Give a speech in front of the United Nations
• Go Skydiving
• Go Bungee Jumping
•  Go on a Trapeze
• Go on a tightrope (2014 (get specific date) – FIU Ropes)
• Go on a tightrope without any handholds or exterior aid
•  Go Paragliding
• Go Parasailing
• Learn how to Surf
•  Go Scuba Diving
•  Get PADI Certified
•  Climb a Mountain
• Climb a Volcano
• Go Rock Climbing
• Explore a cave

Miscellaneous

• Meet Meryl Streep
• Meet the Dalai Lama
•  Walk out the door and start walking without any destination in mind.
• Get something named after me.
• Have someone name a character in book after me.
•  Go to the airport and buy a ticket without knowing where I’m going.
•  Go into the Peace Corps
• Vote in every Presidential and Midterm Election and make my voice heard.
• Learn how to do calligraphy.

Events to Attend

• The Christmas or Easter Mass at the Vatican
• Participate in the Tomatina in Spain
•  Palio di Siena
• Venice’s Carnevale
• Brazil’s Carnival
•  A U.S. President’s Inauguration
• Coachella
• Bonnaroo
• Sundance Film Festival
• New Orlean’s Mardi Gras
• Junkanoo Festival (Bahamas)
• See the Northern Lights
• An Eminem concert
• The Weeknd concert 

Music

• Put on a Senior Recital
• Learn Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto
• Learn Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto
• Learn how to Accompany People
• Perfect Sight-reading
•  Learn Beethoven’s Appassionata
• Put on a concert with the Quartet 

Become Fluent in 5 Languages

•  English
•  French
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
• Portuguese
• American Sign Language 

Academic and Professional

• Get a freaking job
• Start my own club or organization at Indiana University, either that or be President of something.
•  Graduate college with honors
•  Begin an organization that provides children in developing countries with instruments and musical instruction
• Start my own law firm (with an emphasis in human rights)
• Do work for the UN
•  Put $100,000 in the bank
• Give $100,000 away
• Make a million dollars.
• Write and publish a book.
• Create and maintain a successful blog. 

       So there you have it. An Impossible List by yours truly. It'll grow and expand and I think that maybe in six months I'll post it again and show you guys what I have done and what I've added. I'm so excited. Excited about life and its unlimited and beautiful opportunities. Sure, I might not end up accomplishing everything on this list, and some goals might fall by the wayside because other goals will replace them but that doesn't mean I can't have an amazing, frustrating, exhilarating time accomplishing crazy shit. We are constantly on the road to become the people we are meant to be, and sometimes people take hidden paths or even step off the road entirely but I sure as hell want to become someone who might not change the world, but will definitely have her impact. 

     Sorry for rambling, it's late at night and I'm tired. To whoever takes their time to read this: I love you. Thank you. People like you, who take the time to read and to learn something new about another person or about the world are my kind of people.