love ...

... is not love,
till it's embraced.
till it's displayed.
till it's celebrated.
till it's nurtured.

till it's entirety is, simply, wanted.

30 before 30

1. Skydive - check
2. Teach science in a primary school
3. Be a visiting professor in a university/have a highly-opinionated (popular) blog on world economics
4. Bungee jump (would 'from the top of macau tower' be pushing it?)
5. Learn to swim
6. Finish learning carnatic music
7. Sing a self-composed (preferably in Urdu) song while playing the guitar to it
8. Live in London and Africa for a while
9. Backpack across the length and breadth of Peru and Chile
10. Go on a vacation to the Amazon Rainforest
11. Win a quiz competition in India (I owe it to my past. It might be the toughest on the list too)
12. Make a 5ft X 5ft oil painting
13. Get a cat/dog
14. Get an MBA and/or a PhD
15. Write a column for a newspaper
16. Become a published photographer
17. Backpack across India
18. Go to Europe with family
19. Finish reading 500 books (counting here)
20. Do something for my high school
21. Build the dream house
22. Learn pottery
23. Get a tattoo
24. Backpack across Europe - check
25. Find my passion in life - check
26. Go to all National Forest Reserves/Parks in India
27. Run a half-marathon
28. Startup in India
29. Learn Tamil. Watch a Rajnikanth's movie and all Maniratnam's and understand every word :D
30. Learn a European language - check

Year 21 - Score - 4/30

I can do at least 3 more in the next year :D
and 3/yr should get me there.

Hopefully I will have this blog or some form of it until Year 30 and I can give updates on how far I have come every birthday! :)