Bucket List

Someone said to me once "you don't have to make the same mistakes others have made just to see if they're really mistakes", but if I don't, how will I have lived?

• Own a house
• Skydive
• Live in New York City
• Learn to actually swim
• Yoga Instructor
• PhD Psychology
• Travel for real with just a backpack
• Go on an outward bound trip or equivalent
• Volunteer full time for a year
• Function without a car
• Live off grid and independently 
• Run a marathon
• Live in another country for a year
• Go without a phone for a year
• Get a tattoo
• Get off depression meds
• Spend no money of presents for others, instead volunteer in orphanages, retreats, hospitals, donate money, clothes, books, toys, do something good
• Enjoy a walk in a cave
•     "     "    "     "  " city
•     "     "    "     "  " forest
•     "     "    "     "  " temple
•     "     "    "     "  " garden
• Plant a tree
• Have no debt
• Play in the Pacific Ocean with someone who loves me in the middle of the night
• Teach a cooking class
• Be a foster parent
• Blow into an elephant's nose
• Provide therapy to someone through sign language
• Take my Dad on an adventure to a country he's never been
• Donate bone marrow/some other body part I have more of than I need
• Put out a fire
• Make a difference in someone's life
• Sit in silence for one week
• Worship in sacred areas in different places of the world
• Fly a kite
• Buy a flower for a stranger
• Get a dog
• Mentor someone
• Learn a martial art
• Actually understand C.S.Lewis' books
• Learn how to give a real massage
• Have a healthy body
• Kiss someone I love on new year's
• Stop using expletives (any kind. Learn and use a better vocabulary)
• Meet the Prophet
• Be in a financial place where I can donate enough money to a cause to actually make a difference
• Build a community in my neighborhood
• Donate my hair after I cut it
• Gum on the gum wall in Seattle
• Go on a spontaneous road trip
• Love