My Bucket List

Here’s a brief list of things I plan to do before I kick the Bucket.

Bucket List

1. Participate in a pie-eating contest

2. Ride a Ferris Wheel for 1 hour

3. Hug a redwood tree

4. Dance on the plains in Kansas

5. Think of a hilarious knock-knock joke

6. Put soap bubbles in a fountain and play in it

7. Sing at the top of my lungs in a crowded bathroom

8. Sleep in a hammock

9. See all of the oceans the world (yes, I realize that its just one big ocean…work w/ me)

10. Paraglide

11. Be fluent in at LEAST four languages

12. Go to India

13. See the Northern Lights

14. Go to a soccer (futbol) game in a Latin American country

15. Learn to surf in Australia

16. Meet an Indian elephant and see if it’s ears are really shaped like India

17. Stand on the Great Wall of China

18. Dance the tango in Argentina

19. Swim with Dolphins

20. Visit every continent

21. Write a book

22. Be a published writer

23. Live somewhere on the Continent of Africa

24. Get a PhD

25. Fall in love (ok, I admit it, I am a hopeless romantic)

26. Hike in Yellowstone

27. Run a full Marathon

28. Visit all 50 states

29. See the Seven Wonders of the World (natural, modern and ancient)

30. Get a Tattoo (seriously.)

31. Go Snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef

32. Go pub hopping in Ireland

33. Raft the Grand Canyon

34. Be an extra in a film

35. Be on Oprah

36. Be on a game show

37. Send a message in a bottle

38. Be someone’s mentor

39. Go wild in Rio during Carnival

40. Learn to Bartend

41. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty

42. Get lost in the Smithsonian

43. Hike the Appalachia Trail

44. Walk the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

45. Ride a camel to the Pyramids

A Letter to a Friend

The heart. It is simultaneously the worst and best thing to ever happen to humanity. One minute, it has you running around like a giddy little school girl, bursting with elation. And the next minute your heart has torn itself from your chest, lying bruised on the floor. It is the bringer of the happiest and most passionate of times, but it will also betray you and make you feel like hell. It is sentimental, impulsive, passionate, confused, fickle, loyal, distant and affectionate. But it is never weak. It has proven over and over again that it can survive nearly anything. Very rarely does a broken heart not heal itself. It may be full of blemishes and scars, but it will always beat strongly.

Forgive your heart for stumbling because sometimes it’ll make the wrong decision, but maybe the point isn’t the decision but rather what you learn from it. Don’t give up on your heart just yet, eventually it’ll tell you what it wants, all you need is a little patience and perspective. Someone once told me that if you are constantly searching for certain answers you may miss the right choice because you weren’t open to all possibilities. Take your time and go with the flow, eventually your heart will stumble upon the right path. But until then, enjoy the scenery and see where the journey takes you.