List 6 actions or achievements you think every person should accomplish before turning 18. There are no conditions on what can be included on the list.

Tag 6 more people and leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.

This is a challenge, a challenge to keep this list under triple digits, let alone boil it down to six.

1: Learn how to take care of yourself and others; to cook and do laundry; to maintain a dwelling and support yourself with a job; to read and write and do basic arithmetic.

2: Learn to love learning for learning’s sake.  Locate your cultural boundaries and see what’s on the other side.  If you decide to return to wherever you started from, at least you’ll be making an informed choice.

3: Question orthodoxy.  Remember that change is often made by people who are too ignorant to know, or too stubborn to accept, that something can’t be done.

4: Explore history.  Everybody’s writing history these days, even the losers.  Remember that history is written in a context.  Don’t assume there’s only one.

5: Explore the natural world.  Spend time in it.  Become one with it.  Read about it in National Geographic so you have an idea what’s going on behind the phenomena.

6: Learn to dance.

Repeat as needed.

- Poppa