People
Before I Die ...
What Is Important To You?
Candy Chang is an artist who explores making cities more comfortable and contemplative places.
This project is her brain-child.
It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget what really matters to you. With help from old and new friends, Candy turned the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans into a giant chalkboard where residents can write on the wall and remember what is important to them.
Before I Die is a public art project that invites people to reflect on their lives and share their personal aspirations in public space. Painted with chalkboard paint and stenciled with the sentence “Before I die, I want to _______”, the wall aims to create public spaces that better reflect what is important to us as a community and as individuals.
It’s a question that changed Candy after she lost someone she loved very much, and she thinks it’s important to remember how brief and tender life really is.
We invite our readers on sikhchic.com to join us on our cyber-space chalk-board on a journey of self-discovery.
We ask you to complete the sentence, "BEFORE I DIE, I WANT TO ......." by posting your thoughts as a comment below.
Please limit your entry to 20 words. Distilling your thoughts to a bare minimum will challenge you to seek the very quintessence of your dreams, hopes and desires.
Multiple entries from readers are welcome.
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1: Laddi (Mumbai, India), May 12, 2012, 6:47 AM.
A world with no war.
2: Hari Singh (Wisconsin, U.S.A.), May 12, 2012, 6:49 AM.
See the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
3: Nirlep Kaur (Chandigarh, Punjab), May 12, 2012, 6:56 AM.
See a Punjab back in its full glory.
4: Balbir Singh (Brampton, Ontario, Canada), May 12, 2012, 6:59 AM.
See all of my children well-settled, content and flourishing.
5: Karamjit Singh (Punjab), May 12, 2012, 7:25 AM.
Help change at least one thing for the betterment of all humanity.
6: T. Sher Singh (Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada), May 12, 2012, 8:00 AM.
Eat Malda mangoes plucked from the orchards in Digha Ghat, Patna, Bihar, India.
7: Nirmal (California, U.S.A.), May 12, 2012, 8:40 AM.
See my first love again.
8: Michelle Brett (Vermont, U.S.A.), May 12, 2012, 8:45 AM.
See the likes of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld tried for their crimes and brought to justice.
9: Baldev Singh (Bradford, United Kingdom), May 12, 2012, 9:09 AM.
Experience again the ecstasy of a burst of shabad kirtan, the way I first heard it as a boy entering the Darbar Sahib.
10: Pritam Singh Grewal (Canada), May 12, 2012, 9:31 AM.
To realize what is Naam Simran.
11: Aryeh Leib (Israel), May 12, 2012, 12:57 PM.
Pritam Singh Grewal ji, I'm with you!
12: Harpreet Singh (Delhi, India), May 12, 2012, 1:07 PM.
I would like to see a good government in place, like the one of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ... where people rule with compassion, practice mercy, and work to promote the happiness of the citizens. Justice for all, no torture, no discrimination between religions, races, castes, genders ...
13: Amar Singh (Napier, New Zealand), May 12, 2012, 2:54 PM.
See Punjab with the glory that it had during Maharajah Ranjit Singh's reign.
14: Sangat Singh (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), May 12, 2012, 3:50 PM.
Look inwards. Take stock. Do the seeding operation of 'Naam'. Learn to truly live for 'sarbat da bhalla', in the spirit of Bhai Kanhayyia.
15: Kirpal Singh (Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A.), May 12, 2012, 6:02 PM.
I would like to see Sikh academic studies well established in West & East with progressive interest in Sikh and non-Sikh youth to explore the same, because it will foster peace & goodwill in our world.
16: Sukhindarpal Singh (Penang, Malaysia), May 13, 2012, 4:26 AM.
Understand, internalise and share with my children the significance of living, as enunciated in the Japji Sahib and the GurShabad.
17: Gurmeet Kaur (Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.), May 13, 2012, 8:10 AM.
See my children share the same pain and passion for the panth, and see them pass it on.
18: Satvir Kaur (Boston, MA, U.S.A.), May 14, 2012, 6:14 AM.
Live like a being connected to Waheguru.
19: Baldev Singh (Bradford, United Kingdom), May 14, 2012, 7:58 AM.
Be ready to meet the Creator ...