Everyone has a list. Mine includes learning to drift a car, solving a 5×5 Rubik’s cube, and falling in love. Some items are wildly ambitious, others embarrassingly basic. All of them matter to me.
- Master the 4×4 and 5×5 Rubik’s cubes
- Learn video editing software
- Finish The Brothers Karamazov
- Become conversational in French and Spanish
- Backpack through my favorite European cities
- Complete a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat
- Teach a graduate-level class
- Fall in love
- Earn a PhD
- Learn to drive (yes, really)
- Become a parent
- Learn piano
- Apply to Y Combinator
- Compete in a hackathon
- Host proper dinner parties for friends and family
- Tour a chocolate factory and learn the craft
- Make pasta from scratch
- Give a memorable wedding toast
- Log 30,000 hours of exercise
- Watch Arsenal play at Emirates Stadium
- Attend a World Cup match in person
- See John Mayer perform live
- Visit Vatican City
- Quit social media (and mean it)
- Live in a monastery and study monasticism
- Learn to drift a car
- See Northern Lights in Finland
Abhirami Pillai 