An impossible list is similar to a bucket list, but more fluid.
I was inspired by this article by Thomas Frank, and the original creator Joel Runyon explains it as an evolving aspirations.
I love this idea because it both reminds and encourages me of goals I have for myself and celebrates what I have completed when I look back.
Without further ado, here is my impossible list!
Fitness/Health Goals:
- Run a half mile
- Run a mile
- Run a 5k
- Run a 10k
- Run a half marathon
- Do a plank for 60 seconds
- Squat 100 lbs
- Bench 50 lbs
- Stretch into a split
- Re-learn how to swim properly
Creative/Skill Goals:
- Learn how to use a sewing machine
- Crochet a sweater
- Crochet a hat (2022)
- Learn Korean
- Hangul (2021)
- Hold a basic conversation
- Read and understand instructions
- Fluent
- Level up my French so that I could go to a French-speaking country and navigate without English
- Hit 500 day streak on Duolingo (Dec 23, 2021)
- Hit 1000 day streak on Duolingo (June 14, 2023)
- Build a website (March 9, 2022)
- Complete one watercolor piece based on a photo
- Edit a video (Dec 8, 2021)
- Edit a gaming video (Feb 7, 2022)
- Publish a video onto YouTube (Feb 1, 2022)
- Hit 100 views on a video (May 12, 2023)
- Hit 500 views on a video (May 24, 2023)
- Practice writing through blogging (Jan 27, 2022)
- Create my own logo
- Learn digital art
- Create my own video thumbnails (Feb 7, 2022)
Piano pieces to learn:
- La Campanella by Franz Liszt and Niccolò Paganini
- Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
- Mariage D’amour by Paul de Senneville
- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin
- Memorize 1 song to play by memory
- Memorize a repertoire of songs
Travel Goals:
- Visit the Domestic National Parks
- Acadia – ME
- Virgin Islands
- Hot Springs – AR
- Hawai’i Volcanoes – HI (2010?)
- Haleakala – HI
- Badlands – SD
- Wind Cave – SD
- Glacier – MT (2019)
- Grand Teton – WY (2016)
- Yellowstone – WY (2016)
- White Sands – NM
- CarlsBad Caverns – NM
- Guadalupe Mountains – TX
- Big Bend – TX
- Rocky Mountains – CO
- Great Sand Dunes – CO
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison – CO
- Mesa Verde – CO
- Arches – UT (2021)
- Bryce Canyon – UT (2021)
- Zion – UT (2021)
- Capitol Reef – UT
- Canyonlands – UT
- Grand Canyon – AZ (2021)
- Petrified Forest – AZ
- Saguaro – AZ
- North Cascades – WA
- Olympic – WA
- Mount Rainer -WA (2019)
- Crater Lake – OR
- Redwood – CA
- Lassen Volcanic – CA
- Pinnacles – CA
- Yosemite – CA (2021)
- Sequoia – CA
- Kings Canyon – CA
- Channel Islands – CA
- Death Valley – CA (2021)
- Joshua Tree – CA (2021)
- Great Basin – NV
- Domestic Destinations
- Havasu Falls – AZ (2018)
- Lake Tahoe – CA (2021)
- Palm Springs – CA
- Big Sur – CA
- Northeast Foliage Trip (2018)
- West Coast Campervan Road Trip (2021)
- West Coast Road Trip – San Diego to Seattle
- Banff Road trip (2019)
- Europe Trip
- International Countries/Destinations
- China (2002? 2010, 2019)
- Taiwan
- Japan
- South Korea
- Singapore
- Vietnam
- Thailand
- Aruba
- Dubai
- South Africa
- France
- Italy
- Greece (2017)
- Montreal, Canada (2015)
- Iceland
- Scandinavia
Fun/Wild Goals:
- Eat an omakase
- Annual Christmas Cookie Bake for Neighbors & Essential Workers
- 2020: Chocolate chip cookies, lavender shortbread, inside out chocolate chip cookies, brownies, sugar cookies
- 2021: Pumpkin bread, snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, m&m cookies, brownies
- 2022: Pumpkin bread, brownies, m&m cookies, sea salt caramel chocolate chip, snickerdoodle
- Learn a snow sport (skiing or snowboarding) and go down a blue trail
- Hike down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
- Attend a concert featuring:
- Ariana Grande
- Taylor Swift (2018)
- BTS (2021, 2023 – Agust D)
- Penelope Scott
- Glass Animals
- Go bouldering at least once
- Scuba dive
- Learn and properly carve a bird (learned early, done well Nov 25, 2021)
Notable Books and Movies:
- Born a Crime (Read in 2019)
- Pachinko (Read in 2021)
Life Goals:
- Contribute to a nonprofit financially consistently
- Volunteer (Jan 2022 and onwards!)
- Stay authentic to who I am and to everyone around me.
- Keep in touch with everyone who I am grateful for. (2022 – present)
- Slowly understand where my parents came from and their hardships.