I have spent the past several weeks brainstorming my next big blog topic. Something I could really delve into and could lead me to creating some eloquent, thought-provoking work of genius. But every time I go searching for a new and unexplored topic, I keep returning to the same territory. It’s a project I’ve long considered, yet have managed to continuously put off. And with summer providing me new friendships and therefore new inspiration, I am finally going to start with what I hope is to be not only a endlessly growing bucket list, but also an achievable of such sorts. Without further procrastination, here it is: the beginnings of my bucket list and the multitude of things I hope to accomplish before I die. Expect updates, because I anticipate me coming to the forefront of exciting new possibilities.
Oh, and I’ve included a few that would have been on my bucket list before I completed them in order to provide myself a reminder of the thrilling things I have accomplished.
- Graduate college
- Move to Washington, D.C. and start a new career
- Adopt a dog (the bigger, the better)
- Go skydiving
- Travel to another country (as many as I can)
- Learn how to shoot a gun
- Visit some of the U.S. National Parks (Grand Canyon, anyone?)
- Go skiing
- See a real life waterfall made by nature
- Have my writing published somewhere
- Go to Disney world (void in my childhood)
- Take my parents on a nice trip somewhere
- Ride on a motorcycle
- Grow a vegetable garden (I currently care for a tomato plant)
- Take a tour of the White House
- Do a walk for a charitable cause
- Take a Zoomba course
- Take a picture with a recognizable celebrity
- Get married
- Teach a classroom (Teach for America?)
- Get a tattoo
- Leave an anonymous note to a stranger reminding them that life if beautiful
- See fireworks in D.C. for the 4th of July
- Lobby for a cause
- Buy a house and paint the rooms whatever colors I want
- Go on a cruise (preferably Alaskan)
- Build a kite and fly it
- Memorize a popular poem
- Go on a spontaneous road trip to anywhere
- Sail on a sailboat
- Ride on a hot air balloon
- Get a massage from an actual spa
- Donate blood
- Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
- Read The Davinci Code
- Work as a holiday bell ringer for the Salvation Army
- Shake hands with a previous or current President of the United States
- Play BINGO with senior citizens before I am a senior citizen
- See a Broadway musical (ON Broadway)
- Rollerblade the entire Slippery Elm trail (26 miles, so far my best is 21)
- See exotic animals that I’ve seen in the zoo in their natural habitat
- Look at planets through a legitimate telescope
- More to come…
