I come across an interesting article about a person who prepared a list of things he wished to do and gave the title “100 things I should do before I die”. He succeeded in doing majority of things.
It inspired me to prepare a list of things I should do. I felt keeping a list of 10 for each month, will be motivating and drive me to achieve them in that set time limit. I prepared a list in last week of December.
1-VISIT ELEPHANT SANCTUARY
While flipping through various channels in T.V,I come across a programme about the elephants at Guruvayur. I found it interesting and while I searched in Internet, I got lots of information about Elephant Sanctuary at Guruvayur. This prompted me to pay a visit to that awesome place. The visit turned out to be a memorable one. It was exhilarating to see such a lot of elephants in a single place.
2-VISIT HILL PALACE
Last time when I went to Hill Palace was in 2004.I explored the place with my friends during that time. Recently it was pictured in a movie and the visuals brought back old memories. So I planned to pay a visit to that place. Though the Palace was quite near to my work place, I kept on postponing it. Ultimately I did it in January and took snaps of that beautiful place and Palace.
3-TAKE PICTURE OF A FOREIGN WOMAN
Our school was near Fort Kochi beach. Since childhood, I am fascinated by the beautiful foreigners who visit my hometown. During our school days we used to ask foreigners currencies and coins of their native land. Many of them used to share with us coins and currencies of their home country. We used to get excited while receiving them and used to proudly show it to others.
I visit beach often. So I put a target for myself. That was to take a snap of a beautiful woman from a foreign land.
Initial day, I was worried about how they will react to such a request and returned back to home without giving it a try.
Second day, while roaming around in beach I saw a beautiful woman sitting alone over the rocks viewing sunset. I went to her and politely put forward my request.She; Agatha from Poland was surprised by my request and wholeheartedly allowed me to take a snap of her’s.
4-100 PUSH-UPS IN 1 SESSION
In my late teenage I used to do work-outs religiously. I used to do 100 plus Push-Ups in a session. Though I restarted it again in my Post Graduation period, I often failed to do it on a regular basis. Since last August I am not involved in any regular exercise sessions.
So I planned to restart working out in January. I kept a target to do 100 Push –Ups in 1 session. The initial attempts all failed and by the mid of January, I could only do 76 in 1 session.
I discussed this with one of my best friends. He asked me to demonstrate my way of doing Push-Ups.He mentioned that I am not stabilizing my shoulder and guided me how to do so.
With the corrected technique, I found it quite easy to do Push –Ups and ended up achieving my target of 100 Push –Ups.
5-LETTER TO MITHEN
In our college Christmas is celebrated in a grant scale. Most interesting thing associated with celebration is selection of “Christmas Friend”. Once the selection process is over, it is immediately followed by exchange of anonymous letters between the so called “Christmas Friends”. A “Post Box” is kept to aid in the exchange of letters. I really love to read and write letters.
An idea strikes me during that period. It was to write a letter to one of my best friends, sharing memories of our college days.
The writing process took nearly 2 hours and was exhausted at the end. When finished writing it, I almost lived again those wonderful days.
I got a call after a few days from my friend. He was extremely happy reading the letter and was astonished to know how well I remember the various incidents of those days.
6-LOVE LETTER TO MITHU SEN
A few months back, “The Week” magazine published an issue discussing about young creative minds of India. In that issue I come across works of Mithu Sen. I read about an interesting interactive creative project she was doing.
As part of the project she requests people to write love letters to her. In exchange of these letters, the people will receive 1 unique creation of her and that too free of cost!!
I wrote a love letter to her. The process was quite interesting as I was writing such a letter to a person, I had only seen in print.
7-VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER’S CHILDHOOD FRIEND
I was aware since 2 years that my late Grandmother’s childhood friend is residing within a kilometer from my home. I dreamed of paying a visit to her.
I visited her last week. She is in her early 90’s.But she looks quite younger. She seems to be in her late 60’s.She was quite energetic and has crystal clear memory. She shared many incidents during her younger days.
She mentioned that she and my late grandmother attended preschool together and was in touch with each other during their youthful days.
8-VISIT A BOY IN ORPHANAGE
My mother’s colleague took me to an orphanage a few weeks back. One of her student was suffering from severe back pain, so she felt I could help him. I evaluated the guy and taught him some exercises to relieve his pain. I paid a visit after 2 weeks and monitored the progress. I had promised him that I will be visiting him soon. But I kept on postponing the visit.
I visited him last week. Was happy to know that his pain is considerably reduced.
9-MAKE A CALL TO MY “LITTLE FRIEND”
I was not in contact with a “little friend” for the past few months. He is studying in 7th standard and met him in hospital 2 years back, while I was working there.
2 week back I made a call and restarted our conversations.
10-HOSPICE VISIT
I visited a Hospice in my hometown few months back. I was greatly moved by the dedicated service of nuns, nurses and doctors.
I dreamed of taking our students to that noble institution and providing an opportunity to interact with inmates and staffs. Though we got permission from the officials, it did not happen.
I felt a need to visit that place again and succeeded in visiting that place, overcoming my inherent laziness. I even wrote a blog about this Hospice.
