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1) Face death with satisfaction.

2) Wish to call myself an honest and worth man with morals. Be such that I am remembered after I die.

3) Visit as many different countries and places as possible on a long vacation without most day to day concerns. Understand their cultures, languages and traditions. Try most of the cuisines in the world.

4) Do not have any hate within me.

5) Not to repent anything that I have done.

6) Try to be as happy as  one can be.

7) Study in an Ivy League university.

8.) Find as many like minded, intellectually stimulating people as possible.

9) Help as many people as I can.

10) Be rich enough to satisfy my materialistic needs. Well this may mean quite a lot.

11) Read complete Harry Potter series.

12) Be such that people close to me be proud of me.

13) Be in love with the one I want to be and the way I want it to be.

14) Be successful.

15) Have direction all my life.

16) Do charity work till inner self is satisfied

17) ######## Do something which cannot be published . ######

18) Go Bungee Jumping, Scuba Diving and other extreme sports.

19) Get some body art and or some piercing.

20) Be able to share my thoughts with as many people as I can.

21) Test my beliefs of God and religion as far as possible, I do not believe in him.

22) ######## This is about experimenting something, which I cannot publish in here. ######

23) Retire early.

24) Read this list before I die and hope that I at least smile.

25) Being the curious person that I am, I would like to die tasting Cyanide. So at least I will be among the few people in the world who would have known how it tastes. Plus, I die a painless death.

I was tagged by H D E M U S. I now tag the following people to post 25 things they would like to do before they die. If you do not feel like it then feel free not to.

Tania

Abhishek

Ankit

Varenya

Rohit

There are incidents in life which make one question the veracity of the basest of questions pertaining existence. Most of us tend to be oblivious to them, this not being attributed to any intellectual cap of the human. My belief is that these shortcomings arise from the lack of fiber to deal with issues. Yes, things are not imponderables; just that we prefer not to compound our lives by introducing more dynamic variables. Analogous to a student unwilling to learn calculus because he finds himself happy with his quadratic equations. Truly as long as he is happy nothing else should be of concern to us. Happiness is all that counts. ( Note to self- Do not digress yet again argggh…) Can that person, however prodigious he may be, advance as a mathematician if he shies away from Calculus? Ignorance may be bliss for some, but I lead such an existence that things which I wish to evade always boomerang to not just follow me, but attempt to rip me apart. So hence I try not to run away, but such are things that I cannot even run to them for I am not bold enough.

Else it would not take any initiators to push me implicitly into that queer world of thoughtful thoughts. When you look into things straight to the eyes it may not make you feel any stronger, but you will end up feeling better; for you may not have found a solution to the questions but the insight is worth it.

UPDATE: The Secret Whisperer has an excellent post, I recommend you to give it a look.

These echoes, I don’t want to hear
These lacerations, anymore I can’t acquiesce.
Unshackle, Uniron me.
Let me, Let me be.
Please.

Exfoliate the plasters, Unmute me.
You have turned me deaf.
My rumblings, I fail to recognize.
This is far too tight.

Let me breathe, Let me see.
Can’t comprehend a thing,
This Black Canvas and black ink.

You have barricaded my shadows even,
Have none to see me bleed.
The torture you inflict
I don’t even weep.
Just let me,
Let me be.

I won’t let your beast feast
Try you may.
I’ll run, canter away.
I’ll be what I want to be
I’ll be me.

I’ll unchain the cables
That confound, confine and clot
The veins which gushed with
Liberty, eccentricity and identity;
That denude, depredate, desecrate my soul
The damage’s done
I’ll still run

I want to be, what I have never been.
Want to see, want to be.
Want to scream, my own preceptor be.
Want to smell, the scent of selfhood .
Want to savor, the sweetness of my sweat.
Want to feel, what it is to be me.

Let me be, what I want to be
For I am now debilitated and sick.
I’ll run, I’ll run anyway.
I’ll be, what I want to be.
I’ll be me
And Master,
My pale shadows
Will be mocking thee.