52 in 23*

I was perusing the blogosphere and came across a girl who was trying to conquer a list of 26 things in her 26th year (or something like that).  Around the same time, my cousin and I were chatting about her 30 before 30 list.

This got me thinking.  If you were to do this every year of your life, assuming you lived to be OLD and didn't die some tragic or unfortunate and untimely death, then when you were say, 70, you'd have a huge list of things to do.  Some people look at this as a Bucket List, and that works for them, but I'm lazy, impatient, and worry about the future a lot.

I want to get those things done now.  Plus that way, when I'm 70, I'll have accomplished a whole ton of things, and then I won't feel as much pressure to get things done when I'm old and cranky.  Hopefully I'll still be adventuring about, but just in case I end up in diapers, I want to be prepared.

So I'm going to make my list a little differently.  I looked up the average life expectancy of people in the US (78) and South Korea (79), so I just rounded up to 80 for simplicity's sake.  Assuming I want to have nothing on my list when I'm 80, I subtracted my current age (we're still going to pretend I'm 23...and I'll tell you why someday soon) from 80 to get the number of things that should be on my list this for this age-year.  Make sense?

Over the next week or so, I'm going to start putting together my "52 in 23*" list, and then I'll post it here to share, and we can see if I actually manage to come up with 52 fun, non-lame things to do in the next age-year, and then if I actually manage to get them done.  Fun, right?