Random thoughts: Top 50 no-gos

Random thoughts – Week 1: List 50 things I’ll never do.

1. Climb Mount Everest
2. Compete in a sport professionally
3. Give birth (sadly…)
4. Celebrate 50 years of marriage
5. Eat monkey brains (but in general I’m up for trying new/different foods)
6. Become a nun (but I wanted to at one point in my life)
7. Go deep-water diving
8. Have cosmetic surgery (unless, of course, I’m in some horrific accident and need to be repaired)
9. Buy an iPhone or iPad
10. Commit suicide (Don’t worry! It’s never been an option or thought!)
11. Buy a brand new car
12. Participate in an ultramarathon
13. Have lasik surgery
14. Drink tequila shots out of someone’s navel
15. Be a space tourist
16. Pierce my nose
17. Sail the Seven Seas
18. Join a nudist colony
19. Ride a barrel over Niagara Falls
20. Drive drunk
21. Juggle knives
22. Watch Battlestar Galactica by choice
23. Drink Gin and Tonics
24. Go on a shooting safari
25. Run with the bulls
26. Follow the “5 Second Rule” outside of my own home
27. Back down on a running disagreement regarding my pro-Oxford comma stance
28. Have a pet monkey
29. Play golf in a lightning storm
30. Abandon my faith
31. Ridicule someone for their faith (or non-belief)
32. Declare the certain non-existence of extraterrestrial life or Bigfoot
33. Participate in past-life regression
34. Cheat on my taxes
35. Wear an “I’m with stupid” t-shirt
36. Give up carbs
37. Become a vegan
38. Quit Facebook
39. Cook (or eat) liver*
40. Not vote in an election I’m allowed to vote in
41. Be ashamed of my nationality
42. Rob a bank
43. Drive a train
44. Drive blindfolded
45. Turn by back on my family
46. Wish and hope for bad things to happen to other people
47. Deny my small-town, redneck roots
48. Pretend to be dumb
49. Betray my friends
50. Be normal (bore-ing!)

OK, wow! That was really hard. And I admit, I’ve really done some reaching on these. Further, I admit that I didn’t put loads of things up that I thought I might “be forced to do” at some point in my life. That said, I can’t be 100% certain that the future won’t bring some strange reality that sees me being forced to rob a bank, drive a train, and betray my friends. But I imagine that if my life got to that point, we’d be facing some apocalyptic disaster or that my friends would be staging a massive intervention!

(Here’s hoping my next random topic is easier!)

* Update: I did eat liver after this post, whilst a guest in someone’s home. It was horrible, but I was polite and tried my hardest not to be sick.