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.

The origin of the impossible list: World’s first impossible list

Difference between impossible list and bucket list as defined by Joel Runyon, the creator of the impossible list: The impossible list is not a bucket list

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
  • 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)
    • 6 continents
    • Antartica
  • 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 (preferrably 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