The movie, “The Bucket List,” inspired people everywhere to take ownership of the short time they have to live on Earth. The movie encouraged people to live life to the fullest, and do everything you want to do. Do something crazy, and help someone out while you’re doing it.
I hear people talking about bucket lists a lot.
Go skydiving
Travel the world
Learn to play guitar
Fall in love
While those things are great, and are not bad to aspire to do one day, I wonder if we miss the time that we have right in front of us.
When we chuck lofty, cool things to do or to be into a list of things to be completed before we die, they hardly seem attainable.
I see people setting long term goals without the short term plans to see them through.
I don’t know, maybe I just don’t like the idea of bucket lists because what I want and what I can do is constantly fluctuating.
Here’s what I’m doing.
I’m bumping bucket lists.
Tossing them out the window.
Good bye.
Instead of doing big things sparingly to check off a list, I’m doing many small things every year.
Here’s what I mean,
Every year, the age that I am turning is how many new things I will do.
For example, do the big common stuff,
Visit a new country
Learn guitar
Skydive
To the small, me-specific stuff,
Love my family in a new way
Make a new friend
Help a friend start a business
On March 1st of this year, I turned 24.
So, March 1, 2013 to February 28, 2014, I am committing to 24 things.
On March 1, 2014, starts a new 25 things.
I made a list about halfway complete, because I know that life will throw me things that I wouldn't have expected, opportunities I didn't know were there, and people who were just waiting for the perfect time to enter into my life.
I guess this is a bucket list, new years resolution, and a new perspective on life, all rolled into one.
Two questions.
What things are on your bucket list that you're waiting to do, see, or be?
And why are you waiting?
