Life as a List

Okay, I know what your thinking. And no, I did not watch "The Bucket List" this weekend. In fact, I have yet to see the movie!

This list - my own personal bucket list - is something I have been tinkering with for awhile. I had to stop myself at 40. Looks like I've got some living to do!





1. Skydive.
2. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
3. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
4. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
5. Own a room with a view.
6. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
7. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
8. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
9. Send a message in a bottle.
10. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
11. Surf and snowboard in the same day.
12. Be the boss.
13. Fall in love.
14. Sit on a jury.
15. Write the novel you know you have inside you.
16. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
17. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
18. Be someone's mentor.
19. Shower in a waterfall.
20. Drive across America from coast to coast.
21. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
22. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
23. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
24. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
25. Drive the Autobahn.
26. Find a job you love.
27. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
28. Overcome your fear of failure.
29. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
30. Buy your own house –make it into exactly what you want.
31. Grow a garden.
32. Accept yourself for who you are.
33. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
34. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
35. Create your Family Tree.
36. Make a hole-in-one.
37. Run a marathon.
38. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.
39. Accept your weaknesses.
40. Do not limit myself to this list.