Some people I know have crossed out items in their Bucket Lists, and are down to just a few items more, and yet I have to write mine.
I have learned about the Bucket List sometime ago, when I noticed a friend on facebook forever adding places to visit in her own Bucket List. And it seemed to me her list will have no ending, for there is as much more exciting place some corner of this earth that will be good to visit.
Anyway, after a few attempts to watch the Jack Nicholson/Morgan Freeman starred movie entitled The Bucket List, I finally got to finish the movie today. And what a heart opening movie it is.
The story revolves around two completely different strangers who went to see the world, instead of lying down in the hospital for treatments of their terminal illnesses. in the process of living out the adventures of their lifetime, they get to fulfill their simple but very meaningful wishes in the Bucket List.
The Bucket List is actually a list of things one desires to fulfill while one awaits death.
But why wait when one is ill or old? We can make our Bucket Lists early on, and see if we could cross out some of the items we have done.
Mine is difficult to make, because I still have to search my heart about my dearest desires. But here’s a start. (for editing later, pending more wishes) Not necessarily in the order of importance.
- Watch people sip coffee while reading books in my own library.
- Sign an autograph on any of my blogs.
- Ride a jet. (Far flung)
- Adopt a child.
- See the Northern Lights.
- Walk the slopes of Ireland and dance in a tavern.
- Take care of my own grandchildren.
- Read the Bible cover to cover, one more time.
- Find a best friend.
- Embrace my family who lives in Los Angeles.
Eileen C. Leyva 