Mar 16, 2020
Goals, Dreams and Bucket List
In our journey to adulthood, many of us leave our small and yet happy dreams behind. Remember that to-do list? Or that treehouse you fantasized about watching Phineas and Ferb? Not many are able to put our inhibitions aside to check the boxes we curated on a rusty ruled sheet of paper, and many succumb to the pressure of responsibilities.
I am a simple person with a lot of different diaries filled with thoughts randomly, some here and some there. I organize them often but most of the time things that I want to do in my life somehow jumble with the words I scribbled in a moment of epiphany. I have to look through the pages and go months back to see what I wanted then and is it still something I want. Things I wish to experience juggled between thoughts and diaries, but Cup of Contradictions came as a beacon of light to put me out of my misery. It provided an easy solution, make a list somewhere it can’t be erased and will be organized, just as I want it to be.
Life Goals
- Be a patient person
- Get a home for parents somewhere quiet
- Adopt kids
- Sponsor children’s education
- Build a small library room
- Have a garden backyard and different vegetables and fruits grown
- Get a simple neat kitchen
- Become a published goddamn author
- Explore the place or city by walking/cycling
- Have lunch dates with friends once a week
- I want to be able to become a person that gifts books to people
Learn
- An instrument, preferably a violin or a sitar
- Painting
- Indian languages: Bengali, Marathi and Urdu
- Foreign: Turkish, French, Latin, any African language
Places I’ve never been to
- Cambridge Book Depot, Mussoorie Mall Road (dear Bond, I am coming🥺, one day)
- Champaca Bookstore, Bangalore
- Kolkata (i am going to walk around in jhumkas, kurta, bindi and a jhola in the city. Beat that)
- Araku Valley, Andhra Pradesh
- Atlantis Bookstore, Santorini, Greece
- Turkey (pick olives and mushrooms)
- Illiterati, Meclodganj
- Benaras, UP
- Walking Book Fairs, Orrisa
- Bombay (i wanna see pretty samundar)
- Pakistan (Karachi biscuits, Lahori culture)
- Pondicherry, Goa, all places French-ish
- Dehradun Valley
- Darjeeling-Siliguri stretch
- Assam (I want to see the massive Brahmputra and sunrise)
- Rameshwaram
Bucket List
- get drunk (oh god please give me a chance to get drunk drunk)
- skinny dipping at night
- ̶a̶t̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶ ̶Q̶a̶w̶a̶l̶i̶
- attend an independent music artist gathering
- attend a book signing
- build a treehouse
- d̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶f̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶l̶a̶n̶g̶a̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶w̶a̶ (I genuinely enjoyed it. It was peaceful and soul-soothing, even though my bones hurt every Saturday Sunday now)
- volunteer in a bookstore
- work in a bakery/cafe for a month
- climb a mountain
- go for a trek
- clean a beach
- ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶
- write postcards and letters to loved ones
- w̶r̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶f̶a̶n̶ ̶m̶a̶i̶l̶
- a̶t̶t̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶g̶a̶l̶l̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶o̶p̶e̶n̶i̶n̶g̶
- get a chance to dress up for a ball party (I want this so much, growing up watching rom-coms and realizing Indian schools won’t have it, sucks!)
- build a Snowman (I have never ever seen snowww)
- have a house swap
- stay in a stranger’s home during a trip for cultural experiences
- pay for someone’s meal
- watch a movie screening at an open theatre
- rekindle the lost connection with theatre and radio
- ̶t̶r̶y̶ ̶S̶u̶s̶h̶i̶
- go horse riding (it is most likely that I will be constantly scared of the horse)
- beach walk (I have never seen samundar)
- go scuba diving
- para shoot gliding
- get a window seat on the plane (I have never been on a plane and merko chahiye window seat merko nahi pata)
- watch a movie in a theatre
- hot chocolate on a beach
- hot chocolate in front of a fireplace
- hot chocolate in the library
- hot chocolate in an elevator
- hot chocolate in a car
- hot chocolate in banyo
- attend a wedding dinner
- attend a Nikaah
- crash a wedding
- give a friend a bachelorette
- organize a surprise birthday party for self (YES!)
- colour my hair (I swear I want to do this so much but ughhh Mummy)
- try Stand-up comedy (my life is a solid comic material)
- Get upper ear piercing (technically this should be struck off but its a long story)
- Flash mob dance
