About 101 things…

What do you want to do before you die? 

Every so often a TV show or book emerges that catalogues all the things that people supposedly want to do before they die. And these lists tend to be horribly predictable. Apparently, folks across the world are desperate to go swimming with dolphins, to see the pyramids, to go skydiving or to marry their lover in an underwater ceremony on the Great Barrier Reef.

But we don’t buy it. That’s not what people really want to do. Because in real life, people aren’t just motivated by a love of marine wildlife. They’re motivated by sex and greed and self-pity and vengeance and ego. They want to be worshipped or loathed or feared or glorified. They want to do all sorts of things that are horrible, politically incorrect and would cause them to be either arrested or disowned by their family and friends. They want to do things that they know they shouldn’t want to do. They even want to do things that actually, they probably don’t want to do. People are complicated, aren’t they?

This blog isn’t about what you should do before you die, as though moral obligation has anything to do with desire. No, this blog is dedicated to listing the things that people really want to do. Whether it be smoking crack, having anal sex with a pensioner or just writing a suicide note to be saved for a special occasion.

Together Man A and Woman B will be revealing what they actually want to do before they shuffle into the afterlife. And who knows? We might ask you to contribute your own disgraceful aspirations.