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The Bucket List

This isn’t an entry about the movie, but it is definitely about lists of things that you aspire to do before you kick the bucket, so to speak. I was out for my afternoon run yesterday and I don’t know why I was thinking about death, but I was, and thinking about how pissed off and sad I would be if I got hit by a truck tomorrow and didn’t complete at least a quarter of the things I wanted to do. I have quite a large bucket list but if I wanted to rule out the silly and unimportant ones, I would most likely have about 10 things that I really want to do.

There are things on my list that I want to do at different stages of my life. For example, when I turn 60 I want to go skydiving as my birthday present. I think this age stands out most for me because that is what my great granddad did for his 60th me being 10 at the time thought that was just the coolest thing in the world to do and it just kind of stuck with me, I guess.

I have created a list of my most important wants and desires. They aren’t in any particular order;

1. Trek the Kokoda Trail.
2. Travel the world - namely to Africa, Europe and New Zealand.
3. Travel Australia.
4. Swim with the sharks at the Cape of Good Hope.
5. Be in a job I love.
6. Have a family.
7. Meet my grandchildren.
8. Go skydiving when I’m 60.
9. Die happy.

This is my bucket list as 18 year old April Lea. I can appreciate and understand that these things will most likely grow, change or evolve as I grow, change and evolve and for this reason, in 5 years time, I will write another.

Do you have a bucket list? If so, what is yours?

I know, it’s not much of a list

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