Experiences mold our lives and ingrain wonderful (and sometimes not so wonderful) memories deep within our minds. Our lives are changed by the happenings that come our way and sometimes it’s good just to reminisce… sift through that old mental box of bright and shiny pearls… those moments we held dear… and those we chose to tuck away to save for Truth or Dare games. :D
And here is my 101 List of Life-Changing Experiences. These are things that greatly changed the way I lived my life at the time they happened and have shaped me into who I am today. I figured it was best to get my “101 Things that HAVE happened to me” out of the way before I throw together a “101 Things I WANT to happen”. It was a fun exercise!
You might be asking, “But What’s In It For Me, Richard?!” Well, I’m hoping it gets you to make your 101 List. Do it already and share it, please!
Have fun on your journey through my weird life. Oh and please let me know what you think, eh? :)
Here’s the (sped up!) video version – the text list is below it:
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101 Life Changing Experiences:
- Survived cancer
- Found a wonderful girlfriend
- Got married to wonderful girlfriend
- Had a kid
- Had another kid
- Bought a car by myself
- Bought a house
- Went to a foreign country
- Walked in a volcano
- Played in the snow
- Started a blog
- Wrote an eBook
- Beat World of Warcraft
- Went 147 mph in a car
- Interviewed by FBI agents
- Visited a US Naval Base
They wouldn’t let me get on “The Pad”. *sniff, sniff*
- Saw an atomic clock (US Time Transfer office!)
- Sat inside of a Space Shuttle (Discovery)
- Had my picture taken in front of a Space Shuttle (Atlantis)
- Met an astronaut
- Met an Archbishop
- Met a Cardinal
- Saw (a piece of) the Cross Jesus Christ died on
- Saw a meteor shower
- Built a workbench
- Started and sustained a garden
- Taught a child to read
- Learned to speed-read (is it right for you?)
- Made a video for YouTube
- Drove around Lake Tahoe
- Walked around Central Park
- Went to the top of the Empire State Building
- Went to Disneyland
- Saw Big Bend
- Crossed the US / Mexico border
- Crossed the US / Canada border
- Went to the San Diego Zoo
- Get a Bachelor’s Degree (Electrical Engineering)
- Built a computer (or 800)
- Learned to drive a stick shift
- Rode a horse
- Rode a Jet Ski
- Survived a hurricane (or 5)
- Rescued someone in an accident
- Went on a cruise
- Drove a car in Mexico
- Drove a car in Aruba
- Grocery shopped in Aruba
- Wrote a song about BACON and sang it
- Ate wild edible plants
- Walked inside a sewer system
- Went inside a submarine
- Went inside a battleship
- Visited the NASA Mission Control Room
- Saved taxpayers almost $2,000,000 dollars
- Designed, supported, and maintained hardware used in Space Shuttles
- Put my name in space on a microchip
- Worked on Space Station hardware
- Went to New York during New Year’s Celebrations
- Witnessed a miracle (every Sunday!)
- Witnessed a solar eclipse
- Looked through an observatory telescope
- Walked amongst boiling mud
- Drove through mountains
- Walked a mile through snow, in shorts and tennis shoes
- Made an audiobook
- Made an infographic / data visualization
- Made and drank palm tree date coffee
- Shot a flower off its stem from 30 paces
- Broke 3 arms (lol) and a collar bone
- Ate worms
- Ate a pig blood & jalapeño dish
- Ate 28,000 mg of Vitamin C in a single day
- Read over 120 books in 1 year (and still counting!)
- Jumped a railroad track, Dukes of Hazard style
- Skied on an iced over highway in a 2 ton Ford Crown Vic LTD
- Jumped from hay bale to hay bale in a field
- Ran through a corn field
- Served for a local town government
- Judged in a BBQ competition
- Fell off a tree branch and ripped open me knee on the way down
- Listened to audiobooks at 2x speed
- Got 42 square inches of back skin removed
- Got stuck in quicksand
- Set my front yard on fire
- Demolitioned a house
- Shot out a sliding glass door with a BB gun
- Wrote a computer program for a company
- Made a webpage for a company
- Owned a CD player
- Owned a DVD player
- Owned a digital media player
- Owned an digital book reader
- Made (and drank) hard apple cider (thanks EatTheWeeds!)
- Shook the pursuer in a car chase (not cops, don’t worry)
- Went deep sea fishing
- Made a snowman & snow-angel
- Ate a dinner entirely made from stuff from the garden/yard
- Ate pure capsaicin hot sauce (oh… my… goodness… ouch)
- Made a mix-tape for a Junior High heart-throb (*sigh*)
- Made a 101 list :-)
hands you a cookie for making it this far
Share your Life Changing Experiences in the comments!