The list.
I've known V for getting on 25 years, and we've been best mates for almost 20. In 2001, she was about to move to Australia for a year with her (then) boyfriend; she didn't know whether she'd be coming back, and so there was every chance that our friendship was about to change radically.

We decided that the two of us should throw some stuff in the car and head off for a week camping in France as a kind of last hurrah. So we did.

We made it as far as the Loire valley before heading back Northwards, and talked and talked about our respective futures. As we sat at the hovercraft port waiting to come home, V produced two pieces of paper and pens, and suggested that we both write down our ambitions for the years ahead. Then we'd swap lists and, whatever happened to us, make a point of meeting up every 5 years or so to see which of our ambitions we'd fulfilled.

Thankfully, she came back, and we now live about an hour from each other. But I still have her list in my wallet.
1. Visit all 7 continents. She's done that.
2. Own a cat. She's done that.
3. Own a piano. Electric one, yep.
4. Take a helicopter flight. Done.
5. Visit New Zealand. To be honest, I'm not sure. I don't think she's done that.
6. Visit every country in Europe. Not yet.
7. Write a book and get it published. Not yet.
8. Have a child. She did that in May.
9. Get married. Yep - she did that a couple of years ago, thankfully not to the idiot with whom she went to Australia.
10. Run a marathon. I'm not sure whether she's done that yet.
11. Go up in a hot air balloon. I think she's done that.
12. Do a CVP line unassisted. This is interesting. She was a year out of medical school at the time, and this was still something she hadn't mastered. She laughs now at this one.
13. Do an LP [?lumbar puncture?] unassisted. Ditto.
14. Become a consultant or GP. Not yet - but it'll come soon.
15. Learn Spanish. I don't think she's done that yet.
16. Trek in Nepal. Not yet.
17. Take singing lessons. Not yet.

So: ten years on, she's achieved many of what were then her lifetime ambitions.

As for my list? She lost it.
Silly mare.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 14:16, 6 replies)

Oh this is really quite touching.
I really like this - I'm clicking.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 17:12, closed)

Ta!

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 10:11, closed)

Point of order, Dr Enzyme...
One does not own a cat. One merely allows it to share one's living space.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 18:49, closed)

Tru dat.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 10:11, closed)

She probably lost it during all that traveling
check Australia
(ChiTown Guy Dating when 35+: sane, single, attractive - pick 2, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 21:27, closed)

You're her gay friend aren't you
or at least her very fricken soppy friend.
Harden the fuck up.
(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Tue 19 Oct 2010, 6:31, closed)