Proof

The Evidence

My friend and fellow blogger Holly has been asking me about the hitherto unpublished bucket list for quite some time now. As such, I am sharing it here for the first time in my personal blogging history. Congratulations, phantom reader. You are now privy to my world.

Prior to this post, I did have an old link to an earlier "draft" of my bucket list but it has since been removed for many reasons, one of which was that I did not want to write things down just for the sake of doing so. Moreover, there must be meaning behind each entry and a firm commitment to achieve each one of them as well.

I have decided to share this list with you now not only because I have put some considerable thought into each entry but also because I hope that we can achieve some of these things together. The list above is still in constant flux and, in my mind, I am constantly making additions and subtractions to the labile list of "things-to-do" and "to-achieve". In particular, the following items are also on my working bucket list:

• Get my G license
• Become as close to student debt free as possible by the age of thirty 
• See the Northern Lights / Visit Northern Canada 
• Watch an astronomy event live 
• Sample the local foods / participate in the local customs and traditions in each of the countries I will visit in the future 
• Fill my passport with stamps
• Learn how to jump rope, whistle, rollerblade, and cartwheel
• Learn and speak in as many languages as possible 
• Rock "Dance, Dance, Revolution"  
• Borrow clothes from my sister  
• Buy a yearly subscription to Reader's Digest
• Keep a journal for homilies from church 
• Volunteer for a cause
• Live the life I have always imagined and, at the same time, stay humble 

Apart from the items listed above, I also have other additions that I had accomplished before/since I had drafted the list featured in this post:

• Travel for work 
• Learn how to ride a bike 
• Visit South Korea
• Go to a drive-in restaurant
• Hail a New York City cab 
• Ride the subway in New York City

I know that I am forgetting a few entries already but I am stopping here for now before I get too carried away. :) Thank you for reading and I hope that you will read about the accomplishment of some of these items soon.  - JJ