5 Things I Want to Do Before I Die

Carolinawren4, you are one ambitious son-of-a-gun, and WE LIKE THAT ABOUT YOU.—Sparkitors

Life is short, and fulfilling goals is hard.  I mean, look at me! In my Official Life Plan, which ends with unicorns and rainbows, I was supposed to have published a book by now. (It didn’t happen.) Well, to make myself feel better, I decided to put all of my impossible goals in one place, so I can glance back at them 50 years from now and think, “Whatever I lacked back then, it sure wasn’t goals." So I hereby present my Five Impossible Goals. Enjoy.

Goal 1: Write a book. Whenever I get a good idea, I somehow end up murdering it. I can come up with awesome settings and villains and things, but my plots always end up forced or full of holes. Mile-wide holes. I’m also scared that my book will be ridiculed if it gets published.

What I could do to get started: Outline. This is the step Stephenie Meyer was missing when she wrote That-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named. If she had done an outline, she might have discovered, “Oh, I devoted almost all of the book to face-touching, and the plot only spans ten pages!” But then Dan wouldn’t have made his awesome series, so I guess we both lost and won that battle.

Goal 2: Finish learning Spanish. Learn French. And then maybe Chinese. Or German, because German is epic. Languages are awesome. And just hearing other people speak different languages makes me feel good. I want to learn every language in the world, but that’s not possible. Maybe 4? I’m on track for 3 right now…

What I could do to get started: Rosetta Stone. Does it even work? Maybe I should just give up. Or abandon my dream of learning French and be content with three languages  learned by the time I die.

Goal 3: Conquer my shyness. I can’t talk to strangers. I can’t even really talk to people I only semi-know. And I can never, NEVER talk to crushes. It’s  a huge problem.

What I could do to get started: buy Confidence Pants. Anybody got an extra pair? Anybody? No? Ah, well, I guess I just have to make my own. Hopefully they’ll fit. If not, I could always…

-Talk more.

-Be less awkward.

-Read Auntie posts.

-Ask the Sparklers for tips! (This counts as me asking.)

Goal 4: Be good at math. Aah, the impossible dream…

What I could do to get started: Pay attention in Math. But—but—bbut—Nobody does that! *Bursts into nervous tears*

Goal 5: Write SparkLife Articles. Why do I never, ever, ever get ideas when I want to write? Especially since there was a Geek Week. And my life is VERY geeky. Very.

What I could do to get started: Live my life and hope something funny happens. Oh… that reminds me…. I’ll be right back—I have articles to write!

We think all of these goals are admirable indeed. What are your top 5 "impossible" goals? How close are you to accomplishing them?

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