I'm going to die sometime. I'm almost 24 years old and I'm incredibly aware of my inevitable death. (We'll talk about this in another blog, or maybe my therapist and I can work it out later.. :) Anyway... starting to panic about the "have's" and "have not's" of my life.
So I did the only logical thing I could think of. I wrote a bucket list. It's pretty great.
And, as I was writing this list, I realized that I was able to cross an AWFUL lot of things off my figurative list when I went to Africa in 2008: Bungee jumping, rafting the Nile, seeing Africa, going on a safari, seeing the source of the Nile River, repelling down a 300 ft waterfall, volunteering in a third world country, living in another country, work in an orphanage... etc. I was also able to cross things off I could have never even KNOWN I wanted to add, like... delivering twins. (Who could forget THAT story?)
Anyway, I hope to be able to post as I cross them off, and create stories that I can take with me to the next life... satisfied with my current life and how I lived it. ENJOY!
1. Travel all over the world: Paris to explore the Louvre, back to London, Florida, back to Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Scotland, Texas, Spain, Alaska, Dubai, Italy, Sweden, Japan with all its cherry blossoms, India, the middle of nowhere, somewhere GLORIOUS.......
2. Go heli-skiing
3. Make clay pigeon shooting a hobby
4. Volunteer more and in different ways
5. Learn to hang-glide and then GO
6. Get my photography website up and running
7.See and experience the northern lights, maybe in Finland
8. Get married in the temple
9. Buy a house
10. Start a family: Three girls, two boys
11. Go on a cruise, maybe the rock boat!
12. See a killer whale in their natural habitat
13. Start working out and eating better to achieve my ideal weight
14. Ride a gondola through the canals of Venice
15. Enter and win a photography contest
16. Go see Northern Idaho, Coeur d'Alene and Wallace, and ride the Hiawatha Bike Trail
17. See ALL 7 Wonders of the World
18. Attend the summer Olympics
19. Drive Highway 1
20. Teach a child to read
21. Go to Washington DC for the fourth of July
22. Buy a sail boat and learn to sail with the love of my life
23. See fireflies, and then be surrounded by them
24. Create a room I love that’s JUST FOR ME wherever I live someday
25. Own a cabin in the mountains, maybe McCall
26. Go outside for at least an hour everyday in the summer time
27. Write the novel I know I have inside me
28. Travel around San Francisco in a cable car
29. Host a costume party and have EVERY ONE of my friends attend
30. Make and keep more close friends
31. Sleep barefoot in a hammock
32. Fly in a hot air balloon
33. Take a pottery class
34. Have dinner on a rooftop outside, overlooking an entire city
35. Bury a time capsule with important memoirs in a secret location, and then open it 10 years later
36. Go on a scuba diving expedition in a WARM oceanic location; maybe the barrier reef in Australia
37. Get a bachelor’s degree in anything
38. Spend the day at a spa
39. Meet and shake hands with the President of the United States
40. Sit in the front row at a Broadway musical
41. Attend a fashion show
42. Fly first class
43. Have a "girl's night" with all my girlfriends where we all travel and meet in one place and enjoy each other… maybe make it an annual get together
44. Learn to ballroom dance
45. Plant a garden, and/or a tree
46. See the Broncos or Cougars go to National Championship and attend the game
47. Learn how to REALLY cook
48. Sit around a campfire with JUST my siblings and laugh, talk, cry, drink hot cocoa, eat wonderful food and love…
49. See every one of my blessings on my Patriarchal Blessing be given and then expounded upon
50. Put my name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon
I want to encourage everyone reading this to make a list of their own. It's not set in stone, it's not like I can't add to my list as I cross things off, and it's not as if I'll feel like a failure if I DON'T accomplish all 50 endeavors. But... it's a start to my feeling fulfilled and well-lived. (If that's even a word) SO DO IT!
6 comments:
I love your list Mallory. You've put a lot of time into this list and I think you've inspired me to do the same. Love you and I hope we get to hang out soon.
Thanks JAME! Someday, you'll be involved in the future post's I write about #43 and #46 I'm sure. I can't wait to read yours!!
I'll come to your costume party... in Venice!! ;)
I think it's called a quarter-life crisis. I went through one at 28-years-old. I think you're going about it the right way in making a wish list and looking to the future. It never does any good to stew. :D You're just moving on and doing your best!
#15 - How have you not done this yet???? Get on it!
#7, #8, #9, #13, #14, #17, #24, #27, #37 (I don't know what in yet, but something in the sciences probably), #43, #44, #46 (except I need to attend a Denver Broncos game for obvious reasons)- Me too.
#29 - Your fulfilling that dream, while inviting me to attend, would help me fulfill my dream (my bucket list item to dress up in a fancy dress with a corset and get extravagant).
#36 - LOL! Noticed the emphasis on "warm"! haha! You're so cute.
Great list! I love that you dream big. You're larger than life, girl... larger than life.
I will make my own maybe this weekend or something... I am busy, busy, busy and really want to marinate on my list before I post it. Maybe I'll post it on my blog!!!
What a great list! Even though I'm only 17, I too am thinking of my inevitable death. I made a bucket list when I was twelve and just recently resurrected it. I started a blog following my own progress and it's challenged me to do a lot of things I never thought I'd do. Seeing the Northern Lights is one of my top ones. That'd be amazing. Canals in Venice would be just as cool. I look forward to seeing you cross these off and I wish you the best of luck.
Dang girl...you made me tired just reading the list! Must be the old age or something. Hey, I am just happy getting out of the house some days. :) We miss your smiling face! Love you.
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