{"id":2961,"date":"2011-10-03T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T22:52:11","slug":"before-i-die-i-want-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/2961","title":{"rendered":"Before I Die, I Want To …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI’ve always thought that one of the most profound ways I can show gratitude for the good things in life is to GO FOR IT.<\/p>\n

For what?<\/p>\n

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A dream, a goal, a passion\u2014call it whatever. If some far-fetched idea excites me, makes me bound out of bed before dawn, I am pure and simple\u2014grateful. After all, inspiration is one of the best things ever<\/em>. Why waste opportunities. Aren’t they all golden?\u00a0Even the failures\u2014that’s how we learn. What if a baby didn’t crawl or a toddler walk because they were afraid of falling or failing?<\/p>\n

I’m smitten with the Before I Die, I Want To … Project<\/a>. If you go right<\/em> now<\/em> and visit the website, you’ll see what I\u2019m excited about. I don’t have to tell you anything more about it. You\u2019ll get it.<\/em> Of that <\/em>I\u2019m sure. You’ll get it because it hits that certain deep nerve in all of us that tells us we want to live deliberately … now.<\/em><\/p>\n

But, wait. It gets better. The story behind the site is an inspiration in itself. A few years ago when the\u00a0Polaroid camera company announced that they would stop making instant cameras, New York City photographer Nicole Kenney<\/a> began snapping hers like, well, like, there was no tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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A sunflower shot on slightly expired Polaroid 600 film. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Ryan Notch.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kenney partnered up with fellow photographer KS Rives, and the pair took their Polaroids on the road, traveling worldwide to ask people out-of-the-blue what they want to accomplish in life. The answers, from the whimsical to the heartbreaking, were documented by means of a dying camera, and you can see them for yourself on the project’s site.<\/p>\n

“We thought this question would be really fitting,” Kenney said, “because technologies die and people die. Everything is impermanent.”<\/p>\n

All the more reason to embrace life’s possibilities. What’s your dream?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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