Scrubbed.
I just finished watching Scrubs. 
Today was my first time to watch the show, and I kind of wish it wasn’t. On the other hand, I’m glad; it inspired me tonight. I mean, finally I’m blogging again!
Anyway, this episode I watched from Season 1 was about death. They say 1 out of 3 patients usually die in a hospital, but sometimes the odds are much worse. JD (he’s the main character) was conversing with this old lady who needed to be hooked up to a dialysis because of kidney failure. However, the lady wasn’t willing; she wanted to die already. She wasn’t senile, she just felt she had led a good life already and that she was ready to go.
Now, JD is sensitive about death, (although he’s a doctor), so he makes up this list of things a person has got to do in a lifetime. It turns out the lady has done most of the things he put in there. She then returns the favor: she says, “What about you, how many of those things have you done?…Promise me you’ll do them.” [I'm not sure if these are the exact words. And, as hinted by the ellipsis, I skipped a few lines. IMDB didn't have this in the 'memorable quotes' link for the episode.]
Well, I thought it was neat. I’ve been re-evaluating myself (for the umpteenth time), and I’ve come to the conclusion that there are a ton of things I still need to do. Especially while I’m still a student. [It has dawned on me that I have only two years left of freedom before I have to start working.]
So here’s my own list of things I must do before I die [in no particular order]:
- Watch The Godfather Parts I, II, and III
- Watch an opera or a real play.
- Go to Palawan, Cebu, La Union, Ilocos, the Banaue Rice Terraces, and any place in Mindanao. Just for the heck of it.
- Visit all the continents, except Antarctica. I must go to at least one country/area per continent. My choices for each–Asia: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore; Australia: Canberra, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne; Europe: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands; Africa: anywhere; North America: Mexico (when the swine flu stuff has died), Canada (although I’ve been; my best friend now lives there); South America: Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina.
- Learn a foreign language.
- Meet a writer I admire.
[to be continued]
