Bucket List
The news that my sister has such a list and a silly survey posted by a friend on Facebook prompted me to start this list. I suspect everyone has ideas of what they’d like to accomplish before they die, but only now that I’ve started writing these down do I realize how easy some of them may be to accomplish if I just start doing them. It’s a work in progress:
- Record an album, ten songs or more. Need not be studio quality, but should meet my expectations.
- Travel my motorcycle: Need not be an epic journey. Several substantial day trips throughout one season may suffice.
- Travel by train: I have taken the El/Subway, but not a passenger train.
- Visit NYC, coastal California, Washington D.C.
- Write something autobiographical. Not necessarily formal memoirs. A short series of comic strips might do.
This is all I’ve got so far. Maybe I need to dream bigger. The first and last items are most difficult. The middle three just require a little bit of money, but the second one doesn’t help my plan to be more practical and not buy a motorcycle this year.
There’s also 43things.com if you need a place to organize them. I recently jumped on a bandwagon called “101 goals in 1001 days.” So far it feels pretty good to have goals, even if i am failing at some. (For example, one is to write a letter a week.)
Goals are definitely helpful. I discovered this during NaNoWriMo.