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12-29-2012, 02:54 PM
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"Before I die, I want to........."
Syr sent me this video (thank you!)... i loved the project that Ms. Chang did. Being from my beloved, sad home town of New Orleans it hit home twice as much. Please take about 3 minutes to listen.
In her New Orleans neighborhood, artist and TED Fellow Candy Chang turned an abandoned house into a giant chalkboard asking a fill-in-the-blank question: “Before I die I want to ___.” Her neighbors' answers -- surprising, poignant, funny -- became an unexpected mirror for the community. (What's your answer?)  "Before I die I want to hug her one more time" "Before I die I want to carry out my childhood plans" "Before I die I want to be tried for piracy" Those were a few that i remember! So many answers were posted to her questions... i couldn't come up with just one thing to fill in the blank for myself, so as an ongoing thread maybe we can share our *Before I die I want to _________* answers. These answers are not up for debate or judgment. They are what they are, so please don't go there. Discussion probably doesn't need to happen, just fill in the blank as often as you wish. "Before I die, I want to _____________________" |
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12-29-2012, 03:14 PM
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Great idea. Like u have many things on my list so my number 1 thing is
"Before I die I want to have top surgery" |
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12-29-2012, 03:15 PM
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12-29-2012, 03:26 PM
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Before I die, I want to:
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12-29-2012, 03:34 PM
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Before i die i want to see equality
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12-29-2012, 03:58 PM
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Excellent thread dee!
Before I die I would like to complete everything on my bucket list at least twice over. (It's currently a long list, and being checked off one by one)
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12-29-2012, 04:05 PM
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Be on the price is right!!!!!!!!!!!
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12-29-2012, 04:08 PM
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This thread has my wheels spinning and while this is a question I think I have considered the answer to a few times, it seems like I can never make up my mind...Here is a list..for starters...not even close to done.
Before I die I want to... - Forgive and be forgiven - Know my youngest siblings and nephew have found love and happiness. - Sit under a sky lit up by the Aurora Borealis - Actually make my Abuelita's tamales by myself. (Can't bring myself to do it just yet) - Help- not sure in what way just yet. But I want to really help and anonymously make a difference in someone's life. - Experience the kind of love that not even a Pablo Neruda poem can describe - Learn how to swim :/ - Run a marathon - Visit Serendipity - Eat mole by Rick Bayless - See the world  |
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12-29-2012, 05:19 PM
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before I die I'd like to.....
actually make it to retirement....  compete in an ironman at Kona.... see cancer be eradicated.... and see the Pirates win another world series.
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12-29-2012, 05:21 PM
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Loved the 'tried for piracy' one
Before I die, I want to figure out what the secret of life is.
Knowing me, this will happen on my death bed, if at all. 
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12-29-2012, 05:33 PM
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Before i die i want to be able to be comfortable/content with myself physically
Before i die i want to round up the sexual predators and eradicate them |
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Before I die.. I want to kiss those lips that I long for....
Before I die... I want to figure out who those lips belong to...
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Before i die i want to read all the books i've wanted to read
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I want to figure out what my purpose in life was/is and to achieve it.
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lucky! I miss that mouse house! Best time of the year to visit is now
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