Bucket Lists

Theme Song: “Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John

Have you seen the films The Holiday and The Bucket List? It’s kind of interesting to think about things you would want to experience in your lifetime. Sometimes people put outlandish things on their bucket lists – things like “Climb Everest” and   “Swim in the Amazon.” But these can be lists that are more mundane than that. Things you’d like to do, and that you’d feel really icky if you didn’t get to do within your lifetime. I’ve been giving thought to my own list lately (not because anything is going to happen to me, but because loving someone completely also means realizing how lucky we are to have the time we have.) I did a firewalk, which was one thing on my list. Here are some more:

1. Really learn how to do yoga – maybe even take a class
2. Complete 12 5Ks in 12 months
3. Order something at every restaurant in my city
4. Go to Europe
5. Go for a ride on a sailboat
6. Complete a Habitat for Humanity build from beginning to end
7. Make a fool of myself on stage in a play
8. Visit all 50 states
9. Finish writing my novels and see them get published
10. Participate in a running race where I have to travel for it
11. Sew a whole wardrobe myself
12. Serve a mutli-course meal at a dinner party
13. Marry my fiancé

There are many other things on my list, but that’s just a sampling of them. What sorts of things are on your list?

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