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Day Two Hundred and Forty-Nine:  It’s About Time

It has come to my attention that a lot of people have written, in physical form, a bucketlist of some kind for the rest of their lives.  A “Bucket List” is a list full of things that you MUST do in your lifetime.  I view a Bucklist something like a list of things that I want to do to feel fulfilled, accomplished, and like I’ve done something for the world I will eventually be leaving behind.  Some people put a time restraint on these, but I fully believe in taking the rest of your life to live it.  So, it looks like today is my “Figuring out my Bucket List Day,” and so I have started this post before I even got dressed this morning, and am going to add to the list as the day goes on. 

Just to disclaim this list:  I want to add realistic things, and am capping it off at 50 for now.  Never limit yourself, unless you have uncontrollable limited time!

1.       See every province and territory in Canada

2.       Ride and climb through the mountains of Scotland

3.       Knit blankets for new born babies in the hospital

4.       Publish something

5.       Live in my own apartment for any given amount of time alone

6.       Visit Buton, the happiest place on earth

7.       Eat sushi on the floor in Japan

8.       Cook a Turkey dinner independently

9.       Work at the Edinborough Theatre Festival

10.   Own an exotic fish

11.   Fill an entire notebook with just poetry

12.   Buy my own kitchen table

13.   And couch

14.   Paint something onto a wall

15.   Make my own wine

16.   Learn how to ballroom dance

17.   Have an entire tea set

18.   Go whale watching

19.   Go to a UK football game

20.   Go on a Missions trip to Africa

21.   Eat at a place from Diners, Drive ins and Dives (is that what it’s called?)

22.   Stay up all night writing

23.   Go sailing

24.   Visit New Orleans

25.   Stand on a Broadway stage

26.   Work at Sick Kids

27.   Work at a desk where I can put pictures and decorate

28.   Play Cops and Robbers on Boselei Island, again

29.   Go snowshoing

30.   Visit India

31.   Buy a rug in Istanbul

32.   Live above something (a shop, restaurant, etc.)

33.   Own a Burberry coat

34.   Sing karaoke

35.   Learn Braille

36.   Feel accomplished and as if I have done something worth it.

So, not quite fifty, yet, but as it seems I have a lot of things to do.  Obviously I haven’t put all of the places I would like to travel, but sometimes you have to pick and choose realistically, and just reminding everyone this is one of those lists that is true for me now, maybe even two months from now it might change, but that’s probably why I haven’t written one before now…  My goals and ambitions are essentially similar, at my core my wants needs and values are eternally important to me, but what I want to do is allowed to change.  My opinions on things are allowed to change, it is just right now that these things are current and honest, and I love and hope each of them happens.

I hope you’re all having a lovely Friday evening, I’ve had a fantastic day.

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