What do you do when you wake up in the middle of the night. Don’t go around trying to calculate and trying to find what exactly refers to the middle of the night… I am talking about halfway thru’ the sleep when you awake from a very deep, deep sleep…

Now I am not lucky enough to have an imaginary, invisible friend who’d lay awake waiting for me to wake up and talk… So I tried really hard to go back to sleep… but somehow I could not catch the sleepy slumber… and this is very unusual because I can always sleep no matter what… it’s like a blessing, while others would proclaim something like “I am an excellent painter” if I was there I’d say “I can sleep, anytime, anywhere”

Now since I could not sleep I had to do something… so I made an effort to flip open my cell to check the time…. HOLY COW!!! it was 5:07…. AM…. I was wondering how long it has been since I had seen that kind of time after having slept… Now I had spent almost 10 minutes just thinking about this… and there was this sudden urge to use the washroom which I had no option but to comply with… so after pondering in vain over what I could do to avert it for another 5 minutes….I did the inevitable… I got up and went to the washroom… which was followed by two glasses of water….

Back in my bed I started thinking about the things I could do since I was awake… It started as a very small list…actually it started with cleaning the house - which I decided against since it was pretty early and I did not want to unnecessarily scare the neighbors.

Following this I started thinking about what all I wanted to do which I had not done…

So, these are the things that I’d want to do before I die…

I’d want to…
     Skydive.
     Have my portrait painted.
     Learn to speak a foreign language and use it.
     Learn to skate.
     Own a flat with a view.

It was then that it hit me… there are a lot of things that I have done than people would have me think… suddenly everything felt nice and I don’t know exactly when I slept off…

A Comprehensive list of things to do before you die…

• Attend at least one major sports event: the FIFA, the Cricket World Cup and color yourself…
• Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends….. even the ones you don’t remember….
• Swim with a dolphin.
• Watch the launch of a space shuttle.
• Be an extra in a film.
• Live in Himalayas for a considerable time… (yes, more than a day)
  Learn how to take a compliment. - done, I blush but I know how to take it…
• Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
• Give parents a dozen red roses and tell him/her ‘em love them.
• Be a member of the audience in a TV show. - done
• Send a message in a bottle.
• Ride a camel into the desert.
• 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. - I have been thinking about doing this since I was 12-year-old
• Learn to dance.
• Fall deeply in love — helplessly and unconditionally.
• Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia and before this the Konkan express in India
• Write the novel you know you have inside you.
• Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
• Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
• Be someone’s mentor, anybody’s (not your dog’s)
• Shower in a waterfall.
• Ask for a raise.
• Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
• Teach someone illiterate to read.
• Spend a night in a haunted house — by yourself.
• Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time - peeep, not going to do this…
• See a lunar eclipse - done
• See a solar eclipse - done
• 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 - without ever having performed ever
• Ask someone you’ve only just met to go on a date, even if they say “no”.
• Drive through entire India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari - as soon as the cars start running on hydrogen…
• Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. (don’t sniffle, it’s not that often…)
• Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
• Write your will. (that could potentially help when you’re dead)
• Sleep under the stars. - done
• Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the world.
• Learn how to complain effectively — and do it!
• Spend a whole day reading a great novel. - done
• Forgive your parents.
• Learn to juggle with three RED balls.
• Find a job you love.
• Overcome your fear of failure.
• Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park, etc.
• 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.
• Go up in a hot-air balloon.
• Attend one really huge rock concert.
• Kiss someone you’ve just met on a blind date.
• Give to a charity — anonymously.
• Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
• Fart in a crowded space. (hehe)
• Create your own web site.
• Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
• Try skiing/snowboarding, or both, and laugh at yourself for hurting yourself in that way.
• Learn to bartend - like Tom Cruise in Cocktail
• Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.
• Run outside in the middle of the night, go in the middle of the street, and dance while looking at how wonderful the world is.
• Dance like nobody’s watching, even if there is.
• Tell someone you love them, and mean it.
• Find the song that reflects on how your life is, even though you didn’t write it.
• Wander around aimlessly, get lost, find your way out, and not know where you are until you start wandering aimlessly again.
• Go in a forest/large woods that you’ve never been in before, in the morning with your best friend, and go so deep you’re completely lost, and find your way out without a map.
• Build and start a fire without matches.
• Hold a baby and change it’s diaper, even if s/he is bawling it’s eyes out.
• Eat strange exotic foods that you don’t know what’s in it.
• Go everywhere you can.
• Make one friend that you’ll never forget.
• Save a life.
• Learn to do Random Acts of Kindness on a daily basis.
• Draw/Paint someone’s picture. - done
• Go hiking in a national park alone and realize how beautiful the world is.
• Wish on a shooting star. - done
• Watch a meteor shower. - done
• See the Northern/Southern lights.
• Kiss in the rain.
• Learn to smile when you’re sad, until you’re happy again, and if someone asks how you are, tell them the truth.
• Learn acceptance and tolerance.
• Eat grass. - just kidding
• Fall over absolutely nothing unintentionally.
• Learn to laugh at yourself.
• Watch a sunrise and sunset - done
• Find your ultimate freedom and embrace it.
• Take a cruise.