Q4. What's something you've always wanted to do?

1 Oct

Written By GoneClements

I can’t say that I have always wanted to do anything really. I have never had those types of thoughts.
But as I have gotten older I have dreams of what I would like to do, Buy an old house and renovate it. Travel around Ireland, Scotland and France, but never book anything, just drive and see where we end up.
I don't think I can answer properly because I haven't had opportunities to miss out on yet. I have an answer but it's not as deep and meaningful as other answers. I have always wanted to slide down the stairs on a mattress, I haven't done it cause my stairs ain't big enough but I would really like to do it and hope I can when I'm bigger.
(I probably won't want to do it then though)
I've never flown in my own life. I'm afraid of aeroplanes. Probably stems from when I was about and the war began. My sister and I were woken from our sleep and we then spent a night in an air raid shelter. Enemy or our planes were above our heads. The enemy searching for barry docks. These unhappy memories have always stayed with me. But I've loved all my holidays abroad, travelling by ship and car.
I wanted a PULP tattoo, specifically Common People for the longest time. I was really really into the song and thought there wouldn’t be a time where it wouldn’t be my favourite song. This was during the start of covid so I couldn’t get the tattoo which I’m now glad about. I still enjoy the song but I don’t have as much connection with it as I used to. Although I am happy I didn’t get it if I had gotten it I don’t think I would’ve regretted it. I would’ve just accepted and grown to like it.
I have always regretted that I never made the jump and gone to work in Canada for a few years. Never did it in fear of leaving everything I had at home and will never do it now because I have more important things to think about.
I always wanted to do a skydive when I was younger, anything to do with heights really, paragliding, bungee jumping. I even thought after watching an old Elvis film one summer that cliff diving would be fun. Throughout my thirties, a few opportunities came up to do a bungee jump and once to do a skydive for charity. All that was needed was £250 for a said charity and it would be free. Did I do it? No, I could have paid the money out of my own pocket but I didn't. I think the reason that I never got around to doing these things, or took the opportunities when they came around was that as I got older and had less of a desire to do anything risky. If the opportunity had of came in my teens, I think that I would have done them but now in my fifties, there is no chance. Why give chance a helping hand, if I don't jump out of a plane, there is no chance of breaking a bone, or worse. If I don't drive my car really fast through country lanes, there is less chance of a fatal crash.
I read a book by Bill Bryson years ago where he read out the statistics of how people have died.450 people die each year just getting out of bed and 20,000 are admitted to hospital. Now, what am I supposed to do now I know that?
I never tried to play tennis when I was fit & young & healthy!
I always wanted to ride a motorbike on route 66, I couldn't afford it back then and now I can hardly walk!
When I was younger and people asked me what I wanted to be, I said I was going to be a footballer, I loved playing and just that’s what I was going to do, but then as I grew older I realised it wasn’t as simple as turning up at a club saying I can play football give us a game, the bubble was burst and my dream over.
There’s are a couple of things I’ve always fancied doing, I always wanted to do a parachute jump, wondered what it would be like floating down in the sky like a bird looking down at the earth below, but also the thought of jumping out of plane miles up in the air shits me up. The other thing is scuba diving, I’ve often watched people doing it on TV and imagined how amazing it would be diving in crystal clear water, swimming with the different fish on a coral reef, I’ve been lucky enough to snorkel with lots of fish and that was great, but I can imagine being totally underwater without having to come up for air would be even better. I must admit I’ve been lucky in life and seen and done some amazing things, but I guess there’s always time for a few more.