Impossible List
The Impossible List is ever-evolving and never-ending. It isn't called impossible because the goals are unachievable, but because it is impossible for the list to end. Here goes my impossible list, mostly starting from 2021, but including a few landmark feats from the past.
Career and Growth
- Develop an end-to-end tech product, with x users
- Ship my code to Mars and Moon [Mars 2020 helicopter mission Ingenuity]
- Work for a startup [2016]
- Work for an MNC [2020-present]
- Go to business school [Currently at UC Berkeley Haas]
- Run a for-profit business
- Hold a patent
- Run a blog [Muffled]
- Have a personal website [This]
- Publish a poem [Take Over][Half-lives]
- Publish a short story [A Weekend Get-away]
- Publish a fiction book
- Publish a non-fiction book
- Publish a book through a traditional publishing house
- Have at least a publication each in science, business, and literature [ACM]
Travel
- Cover all 7 continents (3/7 done)
- Antarctica
- Travel without camera
- Go back to Dubai and stay for atleast 6 months
- See the Himalayas [2019]
- See snow, sea, mountain, desert, hailstones, island [Manali, Kerala+, Himachal, UAE, Himachal, Kuruva]
- Attend Jaipur Literature Fest [2022]
- Do a cross-country solo trip in India
- Take the eurail
- Visit Morocco
- Watch a Broadway play
- Go back to Australia and meet fairy penguins
- Have a 3 month digital detox vacation
Misc and Hobbies
- Go vegetarian [2005-present]
- Be able to speak 7 languages (4/7 done – Malayalam, Hindi, English, Tamil)
- Change my surname
- Perform Bharatnatyam at an international stage
- Be part of a painting exhibition (preferably for climate change)
- Have an actual pen pal
- Learn kathak [2019]
- Complete and perform
- Learn a non-Indian dance form
- Learn to bake
- Have a manchadikkuru collection, once again
- Own a cycle again
- Write for a newspaper
For the Good
- Sponsor the education of atleast 10 girl/non-binary children
- Help rural Indian women become financially aware and stable
- Start a school
- Work with/for the social enterprise sector
- Run a non-profit/for social good organization
Experiences
- Learn to swim – overcome the fear
- Go paragliding [2019]
- Go river rafting [2019]
- Go parasailing
- Go sky diving
- Get on a hot air balloon
- Meet a new person every day for a month
- Speak at 50 events (excluding intra-college events)
- Make someone's day
- Act in any random play
- Work at a bookstore for atleast a month, preferably anonymously
- Run my own confectionary/library cafe
- Have a stint in international relations
- Sell something on the street
- Be and stay athletic for a year
- Train and run a marathon