I used to be a fan of the New Year’s resolutions. Sometime between 5 and 11pm on the last day of every year, I would find a way to quickly jot down some the things I wanted to achieve the upcoming year. These lists were usually long and covered successes related to academics, social and personal life and finances. Over the first few days of the year, I would diligently study the list and by the end of the first month I would tuck it away somewhere safe: a small box in the drawer of my night stand, a file saved on a USB cord or an email sent to myself. Unforeseen events through the year caused dreams to shift and goals to be rewritten. So in a desperate act of psychological freedom, I ignored the list for the remainder of the year.
This year I am free from the resolutions. Not because I don’t expect anything for the year, but because I expect much more for my life. So this year and those left are about The Bucket List. Never written before, the Bucket List are the moments and milestones I hope to accomplish in my lifetime. While there are several things I want to do before I get called home, these are the top 45 that come to mind right now.
It is my only hope that the list continues to grow and the adventures remain endless.
The Bucket List
- Serve in the Peace Corps
- Teach someone how to speak English
- Master the French language
- Learn the choreography from Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’
- Read Moby Dick
- Learn how to swim
- Run a 10K
- Run a half marathon
- Visit all the continents- South America, Australia and Antarctica left
- Visit Times Square on New Years Eve
- Attend a World Cup Soccer game
- Make meaningful change in the world
- Write a novel
- Buy a coupe
- Complete the Tough Mudder
- Do a color run
- Get a tattoo
- Ride a camel in Egypt
- Pray in Israel
- Take a picture for everyday of that year
- Get employed by an organization that does meaningful work
- Employ someone to do meaningful work
- Give blood
- Hike the Half Dome at Yosemite
- See Mount Kilimanjaro
- Eat Thai food in Thailand
- Get published
- Present a couple more times at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
- Learn to crotchet
- Learn to braid hair
- Learn to drive a stick shift
- Adopt a child
- Teach a Sunday School class
- Read the Bible in a year
- Take a hip hop dance class
- Be an extra in a movie
- See a show in Las Vegas
- Crash a wedding
- Join a book club
- Go on a cruise
- Attend a 49ers game
- Pay a kid’s tuition for college
- Drive across the country
- Learn how to rollerblade
- Marry my best friend
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