This list is a compilation of all the things that I've had on the lifetime lists or bucket lists I've made since I was 16, or at least the ones I could find. It includes the things I still hope to do someday, things I have now accomplished, things I don't mind whether I do or not, and things I no longer plan on doing in my life.

• Adopt a cat (who lives with me, not my parents)
• Be a foster parent
• Build a scale model of something
• Buy a small RV
• Buy my own apartment / house
• Complete my CIOB Level 4
• Climb Ben Nevis
• Climb Snowdon
• Climb to Everest base camp
• Date a girl
• Do a P6 course
• Earn money doing something I love (not including short-term / summer holiday work)
• Fall in love
• Get a tattoo of a dragon
• Get a tattoo of a lotus flower
• Get a tattoo of ‘BALANCE’
• Get a tattoo of lemons
• Get a tattoo of mountains
• Get a tattoo of ‘There It Goes’ cat tarot card
• Get a tattoo of ‘THIS IS IT’
• Get a tattoo of vines
• Get to a place in life where I find it easy to contact people
• Go to a Pride event
• Go wild swimming in a waterfall pool
• Have a successful relationship
• Have my own library (a small one within my own home)
• Kiss a girl
• Learn to bake
• Learn to play chess (well)
• Learn to play the drums
• Learn to play the piano
• Learn to ride a dirt bike
• Learn to use the boulder ball
• Learn Welsh
• Make figola
• Make my parents proud (I have done this, but I hope to do it more)
• Own two rats called Roger Parslow and Klaus Baudelaire
• Read as many books as possible (sort of an ongoing thing for my whole life)
• See Cat Burns headline
• See Gretta Ray headline
• See Halsey (again)
• See Maddie Zahm headline
• See Maisie Peters (again - also ongoing, I have seen Maisie many times already)
• Set foot on every continent (3/7 complete)
• Spend time with wolves
• Stay overnight in Coober Pedy
• Visit Australia
• Visit Cambodia
• Visit India
• Visit Japan
• Visit Malaysia
• Visit Scandinavia
• Visit Thailand
• Visit Vietnam
• Walk the Inca Trail
• Work on site

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• Accomplished:
  • Attend a queer event
  • Buy a paddleboard
  • Buy a sex toy
  • Commit to vegetarianism
  • Complete a Master’s degree
  • Climb Kilimanjaro
  • Complete NISA Gold in Free Skating
  • Decide on a career path
  • Do a roped climbing course
  • Earn a TEFL qualification
  • Get a summer job while I study
  • Get a tattoo of Halsey lyrics
  • Get a tattoo of Maddie Zahm lyrics
  • Get a tattoo of sweetpeas
  • Get a tattoo of the moon
  • Get a tattoo of the sun
  • Get an ADHD diagnosis
  • Get my driver’s license
  • Get onto the university choir committee
  • Get onto the university polo committee
  • Go on safari
  • Go paddleboarding
  • Go rock climbing outdoors
  • Go to a music festival
  • Graduate university with a first class degree
  • Join a choir
  • Learn to cook (well)
  • Learn to read tarot cards
  • Live in a city
  • Move North
  • Move out of my parents’ house
  • Paint a whole room
  • Perfect the Alex Vauss eyeliner look
  • Play polo at Novice level
  • Rank in a national polo tournament
  • See Lucy Spraggan headline
  • See Noah Kahan headline
  • See the Eiffel Tower
  • Study Geography at university
  • Try ADHD coaching
  • Try breathwork
  • Try karate
  • Try kundalini yoga
  • Visit Bomet County, Kenya
  • Visit Ireland
  • Visit Scotland
  • Volunteer in a school (technically I worked there rather than volunteered, but close enough)
  • Write a dissertation

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• Things I might do, but I don't mind if I never do:
  • Attend Wimbledon
  • Be an adoptive parent
  • Become an aunt
  • Buy a mountain bike
  • Buy a trampoline
  • Do the Three Peaks Challenge
  • Do a short course at Oxford or Cambridge
  • Experience a white Christmas
  • Farm commercially
  • Finish a Wreck This Journal
  • Found a business
  • Get a gym membership
  • Get cosmetic surgery
  • Get into a daily yoga routine
  • Go skinny dipping
  • Have a barefoot wedding in a forest surrounded by dahlias
  • Have a romantic date under the stars
  • Have my father walk me down the aisle
  • Kiss in the snow
  • Learn Latin
  • Learn Spanish
  • Learn Swahili
  • Learn to make smoothies
  • Learn to play Go
  • Learn to play tennis
  • Live abroad
  • Only use reusable coffee cups
  • Raise a daughter
  • Raise a son
  • Rent a Christmas tree
  • See the Northern lights
  • Smoke weed
  • Start a daily workout routine
  • Swim with dolphins
  • Try ADHD medication
  • Visit Machu Picchu
  • Visit the grave of Ernestine Champagne, Montreal
  • Visit the Holy Land
  • Volunteer at a music festival
  • Volunteer in another country
  • Walk St. Gobnait’s trail in Ireland
  • Write a song
  • Write and publish a book

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• Past dreams which no longer resonate:
  • Achieve my Passport Award
  • Adopt an ex-racing greyhound
  • Attend World Youth Day
  • Be his bride
  • Be on a podcast episode
  • Buy fish from Cornwall
  • Catch fireflies
  • Complete the NEBOSH qualification
  • Create a complete database of the global Doe Network
  • Do a postgraduate degree at Cambridge
  • Dye my hair a crazy colour
  • Get a tattoo of a geometric fox head
  • Get a tattoo of a paper aeroplane orbiting the Earth
  • Get a tattoo of ‘S.S.D.G.M.’
  • Get an HPA handicap
  • Get my Guiding Leadership Qualification
  • Get onto a graduate scheme
  • Have a baby
  • Have a Christian boyfriend
  • Have my own horse (even just for a short time)
  • Join the Reserve Army
  • Keep social media accounts up to date
  • Learn to play the guitar
  • Live in my own flat in London
  • Meet Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
  • Own a fully-annotated Bible
  • Own a gecko called Gizmo
  • Own a hamster called Adeline
  • Participate in MUN
  • Perform a solo
  • Pierce my own ears
  • Pray every day
  • Raise a child with a heart for Jesus
  • Read the Bible in a year
  • Start a diary and write in it every day
  • Volunteer for RDA
  • Volunteer with Camp America
  • Win a writing competition
  • Work in the USA