Tuesday, November 18, 2014

My Lifetime Bucket List

Have you ever seen the movie "Bucket List?" The movie stars Jack Nicholson as a millionaire bachelor and Morgan Freeman as a middle class family man. They meet when they are both being treated for cancer and are forced to share a hospital room. The two become friends and, together, they compose a bucket list of things they want to do before they die. Some of the things are simple like, "laugh until I cry" or "kiss the most beautiful girl in the world." Other things on their list are more far-fetched such as "Climb Mt. Everest." Funded by Edward's (Jack Nicholson) significant funds, they set off together to check everything off their list. I won't spoil the ending of you, but it's a great movie.

It was that movie that inspired this Tuesday Ten topic. None of us really likes to think about "the end," but it is, after all, inevitable. We've already shared things we want to learn, jobs we would like to try, and places we would like to see, but, if you had to narrow it down to the top ten things you want to make sure you don't miss in your lifetime, what would they be??


  1. I want to see my three daughters grow up. I want to see what careers they choose, meet their future husbands, and watch them become mothers themselves.
  2. I want to see my grandchildren. I'm told that you love grandchildren in a very different way than you love your children. I want to know what they feels like.
  3. I want to feel pretty. Whether it's from losing weight or just somehow finding contentment with myself, I want to look in the mirror and think the person looking back at me is beautiful. 
  4. I'm not exactly sure what specific goal I want to achieve, but I want to accomplish something greater with my writing. I'm not really interested in writing a novel, but I want be published (again) and be at least somewhat "well-known" for something I wrote. 
  5. See Hawaii. Perhaps because of TV, but I've been interested in Hawaii lately and I want to go there.
  6. See more of Europe. I've been to Paris, but I want to see it all and I want to take my girls with me.
  7. Go on a Safari. This sounds a little crazy amidst all the Ebola scariness, but I have always thought it would be cool and there is pretty much nothing that would make my oldest daughter happier. 
  8. Splurge on a purse. Those pretty ones that cost $300 or more?? One day, I'm gong to buy one and not feel the least bit guilty about it. (Then, I will probably carry it until I die!)
  9. Learn to swim - really swim. Like dive off the high dive swim. I'm much more comfortable in the water than I was years ago, but I'm certainly not a good swimmer. I've tried to learn, but fear is a tough thing to overcome. 
  10. I know this will sound cliche, but I want to make a difference in the world. I'm not Mother Teresa or anything, but I want to go out knowing that some people were better off because of me; that I made their lives easier or happier or somehow better. It sounds simple, but when you really think about it, it's a pretty lofty goal.
What would be on your bucket list??



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