Have you even wondered what the ultimate Gen Y’s bucket list would look like? What do millennials want to do? I wondered, so I asked other millennials to share their bucket lists and here is what we want to do before we kick the bucket.

We want to travel A LOT:

• To certain cities like Chicago and countries like Cambodia, Greece, India, England, Italy, Ireland, Japan, and many others
• Or just visit every state in the USA, at least half of the countries on Earth*, all seven continents**, travel for a year, or simply travel around the world**

We want to engage in other travel-related activities:

• Attend a multi-day music festival
• Celebrate midsummer in Scandinavia
• Dance flamenco with traditional clothes in Spain
• Dance tango in Argentina
• Drive across the country and back taking different routes
• Experience the carnival in Rio de Janeiro or in Trinidad*
• Gamble (a lot of money for some of us) in Las Vegas*
• Go on a month-long cruise
• Go somewhere new every year
• Go to a World Cup Soccer game, to all World Cup 2014 games, to a UEFA Champions League Final, to the Olympics, to a World Series game, and to every major sporting event for NCAA football/basketball/baseball, MLB, NBA and NFL
• Go to the North and South Poles
• Have a stake in Argentina
• Party in Las Vegas
• Ride on a horseback across the Australian outback
• Take a road trip across Europe in an Aston Martin
• Take a (month-long) road trip (with best friends) across the USA*
• Spend a month in Ibiza
• Spend New Year’s Eve on Times Square
• Stand on the veranda of the Taj Mahal
• Stay with Bedouins in Petra, Jordan
• Surf in Australia and/or Hawaii*
• Take a first class international flight on Virgin Airlines
• Visit all the touristy NY spots
• Visit Sequoia and Yellowstone National Parks
• Visit the Alphonse Mucha museum in Prague
• Watch a musical on Broadway

We want to engage in some simple and some not so simple activities:

• Attend a Jewish wedding
• Audition for American Idol
• Be an extra in a film or a TV show
• Cook a five-course meal
• Drive a race car
• Get a professional massage at a spa
• Get into a fight and preferably win
• Go skinny dipping in a large body of water
• Go snowboarding*, scuba diving*, bungee jumping**, skydiving**, canoeing, kayaking, target shooting
• Have a lucid dream
• Have a threesome
• Hold a trained falcon
• Kiss someone in the ocean like the scene in The Beach
• Paint on an easel and canvas
• Ride a helicopter
• Ride an elephant
• See So You Think You Can Dance live tour
• Sing at a karaoke bar
• Snuggle with a giant cat and not have it kill me
• Stomp grape for wine making
• Take a pole dancing class
• Watch a movie in a drive-in theater

We want to meet famous people and do interesting things with them:

• Have a hot night with Prince William
• Make friends with a rockstar
• Make out with Chris Angel
• Meet and drink with Anderson Cooper
• Meet David Beckham
• Meet Ina Garten
• Play a round of golf with a PGA member
• Ski with Alberto Tomba
• Throw a shoe at a world leader who sucks

We want to learn and develop our skills:

• Become a skilled Swing dancer
• Become patient
• Fluently speak Italian*, Japanese*, Portuguese, Spanish**, or simply a foreign language** or more than one (nine for some of us)
• Learn (or re-learn for some of us) to play the guitar*, another string instrument or the piano*
• Learn to play the piano and sing at the same time
• Learn to cook*
• Learn to dance*
• Learn to drive manual
• Learn to use a sewing machine and knit, then make clothing
• Learn yoga

We want to accomplish certain things (personally and professionally):

• Be a part of a flash mob
• Be a really awesome old person
• Be in a musical
• Be on TV in a main role
• Be successful
• Become a teacher/professor
• Become a trained chef
• Become Lucille Bluth
• Break 250 in bowling
• Build a house (with secret passages) and live in it*
• Build something bigger than a birdhouse
• Climb the ten highest mountains and drink milk on the top of each one
• Create an award-winning ad campaign
• Design a fashion line for United Colors of Benetton
• Design a handbag
• Do a century ride (100 mile bicycle ride)
• Do a stand-up routine in front of a live audience, although a dead audience might be easier
• Do what Baby Boomers have never been able to do: retire in style
• Eliminate college sororities
• Fly a plane
• Get a tattoo*
• Grow up my own vegetables and then live through ingesting them
• Have a blog and post at least once a week for a year
• Have a herd of corgis, ala Queen Elizabeth
• Have a movie based on my life
• Have a photo on the cover of National Geographic
• Have a piece published in Rolling Stones
• Have a radio talk show
• Have my own page in Encyclopedia Dramatica
• Live and work on a horse ranch for a year
• Maintain a garden
• Make $1 million in a year
• Make a lot of money
• Make liquor
• Move abroad
• Open a restaurant
• Own a house on the beach*
• Own my own business
• Pay off my student loans
• Perform on stage
• Play guitar in a band
• Prove the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth
• Run a marathon** or a half marathon for some of us
• Speak at TED
• Teach a yoga class
• Write and publish a story, a novel or a book** in general

We want to save the world. If we can’t, we want to help save it by doing one or more of the following:

• Adopt a pet
• Grow my hair to my butt and then chop it all off to donate it
• Spend 1-3 months volunteering in a developing country
• Volunteer in Africa for a year
• Teach someone to read and write
• Volunteer for UNICEF
• Start a scholarship fund
• Work for a nonprofit organization
• Save a life**
• Fight teen suicide
• Use my natural talents to do good in the world
• Make a difference with my writing

Finally, we want to have unforgettable love affairs, eventually find real love, get married and have families.***

Millennials, what have you already achieved? What do you plan to achieve in the next year? Do you think our bucket list is different from our parents’ list? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Key

* – common answer

** – very common answer

*** – the most common answer