Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
-Eckhart Tolle

That was the quote that caught my attention. Realise deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. You are not even certain that you would still be alive a minute after this. One minute gone, an hour, a day, and you look back regretting wasting that time and you're never going to get it back. Maybe you'd look back and ask yourself, 'What did I do with my life?' You could have acheived great things, been a great man or a woman, or maybe you have wasted it. Now that you're old, you cannot go back to relive it again. You live only once. The clock is ticking faster everyday, and everyday we are slowly dying. Age is catching up fast; the demands in everyday life taking a toll on ourselves.

1658hours, Friday, 10th of November 2006. It happens only once. Only ONCE. It would be 1659 in another minute, and 1658 would have ceased to exist. Gone. Poof. Imagine what you could have done in that minute. You probably could have kissed someone, dialled someone important, ate a cherry, anything, anything. But we take every second of our lives for granted. You could have taken that time being angry at someone, when you could've walked away from anger and not let it defeat you.

This quote also hit me that, you know, when things ever pass your way, such as opportunity, grab hold of it. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. You can never be sure that there would be another time. Maybe that boy won't walk down that corridor again, or maybe that old man might not be alive tommorow, so do it. Grab that opportunity, and you can grow a tree out of it. We only live that hour/minute/second once, so don't waste it.

Which has led me to make my own to-do list. I've formulated some of it ages ago, so I'm just adding on.

THINGS TO DO BEFORE I TURN 20:
1. Roll on my side down a grassy bank
2. Make a mud pie
3. Climb a tree (I've always wanted to climb a tree. =\ )
4. Cover my whole body with clay.
5. Love someone.
6. Lie on a huge rock and watch the clouds the whole day.
7. Open a shop. (HAHA!)
8. Make my own chocolate.
9. Eat Tiramisu.
10. Lie down on the grass with someone and gaze at stars.
11. Make a painting using my hands and feet
12. Eat a HUGE lollipop along Orchard Road or some busy street.
13. Have my face painted
14. Play with a friend in the sand
15. Buy a balloon for someone.
16. Make snow angels
17. Create a clay sculpture
18. Kiss someone in the rain.
19. Camp out in the garden
20. Cry on somebody's shoulder.
21. Bathe with someone(HAHA, my secret desire is out.)
22. Skinnydipping. LOL.
23. Have pancakes for dinner.
24. Have the best birthday ever.
25. Swim in a river
26. Ride a bike through a muddy puddle
27. Make and fly a kite (pathetic as it sounds, I've never flew a kite before.)
28. Plant a tree
29. Eat a worm.
30. Make a corset.
31. Go skiing
32. Look after someone's baby
33. Dance in the middle of a road
34. Make gingerbread man
35. Makeover my room
36. Have the bestest friends ever.
37. Bathe someone else in chocolate.

I'm sure there's more, but I can't rack anything out of my brain now. So yeah, 3 years to do all these things. Haha, you could even do them with me!