Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends. Swim with a dolphin. Skydive. Have your portrait painted. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France. Watch the launch of the space shuttle. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty. Be an extra in a film. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details. Make love on a forest floor. Make love on a train. Learn to rollerblade. Own a room with a view. Brew your own beer. Learn how to take a compliment. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her. Be a member of the audience in a TV show. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon. Send a message in a bottle. Ride a camel into the desert. Get to know your neighbors. Plant a tree. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works. Learn to ballroom dance properly. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London. Be the boss. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia. Sit on a jury. Write the novel you know you have inside you. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once). Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich. Be someone's mentor. Shower in a waterfall. Ask for a raise. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill. Teach someone illiterate to read. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time. See a lunar eclipse. Spend New Year's in an exotic location. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it. Experience weightlessness. Sing a great song in front of an audience. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date. Drive across America from coast to coast. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit. Write your will. Sleep under the stars. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it! Go wild in Rio during Carnival. Spend a whole day reading a great novel. Forgive your parents. Learn to juggle with three balls. Drive the Autobahn. Find a job you love. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas. Overcome your fear of failure. Raft through the Grand Canyon. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want. Grow a garden. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring. Accept yourself for who you are. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Go up in a hot-air balloon. Attend one really huge rock concert. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors. Give to a charity -- anonymously. Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab. Fart in a crowded space. Make love on the kitchen floor. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch. Create your own web site. Visit the Holy Land. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Create your Family Tree. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium. Make a hole-in-one. Ski a double-black diamond run. Learn to bartend. Run a marathon. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.