As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" This leads me to Lucky 2013. In hindsight of 2012, I believe I spent a lot of that year bemoaning how I got to 40 instead of thinking... wow I'm ONLY 40! I had meant to post another blog before the end of last year and long before my 41st birthday came, which happened only four days ago but now that I sit here in the silence of my house I realized I wasn't ready to write until this moment.
I think I've spent most of my life letting things happen to me instead of directing my ship. Now that I am officially 41 and 4 days, I can say I don't like that, not one bit. So with the new year, a year older, and lots of perspective I'm adding and changing my list to reflect the person I would like to become. I want to be more thoughtful, patient, insightful, helpful, generous, grateful, and appreciative on a daily bases. I wish these things were like going on vacation where I can simply "arrive" at being "patient" but alas I can't so they will not be on the list instead just the list in my head.
When the time comes for me to leave this planet I want to go knowing that I made others life better because I was here. So without further ado.... the new List:
When the time comes for me to leave this planet I want to go knowing that I made others life better because I was here. So without further ado.... the new List:
- Be an extra in a video/movie - 2001
- Ride an Elephant - April 1998
- Ride a Camel
- Meet Ray Bradbury - 12/12/00
- Get an autograph book from Ray Bradbury - 12/12/00
- See the Mona Lisa - 03/10/12
- Raft Down the Mississippi
- Travel Down the Nile
- See the Amazon - August 2000
- Learn to Speak Japanese
- Visit Missoula, Montana
- Audition for a play
- Own a tennis bracelet
- Own a faux diamond tiara - 12/25/98
- Visit Disney World
- Visit Great America in California
- See the Eiffel Tower - 03/09/02
- Visit Capri, Italy
- See the Tower of Pisa
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Visit the Pyramids
- Visit Washington DC - 2008
- Go to New Orleans
- Visit Hong Kong
- Visit Vietnam
- Travel to England - October 2011
- See Big Ben - 10/26/2011
- See Niagara Falls - April 2009
- See Mount Rushmore
- Visit Boston
- Go to a Star Trek Convention
- Go to a Democratic Convention
- Go to the World's Fair
- Go to the Olympics
- Sleep in a Wigwam, Route 66, Rialto, CA - 01/01/04
- Go on Safari
- Visit Djibouti
- Sing Karaoke - 09/27/97
- Perform at a Poetry Reading - 10/07/97
- Take a Picture w/ Vegas Sign - 2001
- See a good Elvis Impersonator
- Visit Australia
- Visit Japan
- Smoke from a Hookah - 09/22/06
- Compete in a 5K - 10/15/06
- Camp at Richardson Grove Park with the Family
- Learn how to play the cello
part of "All You Need is Love"and play Tarantella by W.H. Squire - Explain to M why he saved my life.
- Change careers to be more social service oriented
- Help 5 people fulfill a life goal
- Seek and find out causes I believe in and donate my time and money to them
- Pick one day and say yes to everything Matthew and Andrew ask me
- Write to the 5 people who I love but can't speak the words out loud to and let them know why I love them before its too late.
- Perform 10 random acts of kindness before the end of 2014 and keep five of them a secret.
- Live in a city where I can take public transit as often as I would like
- Finish reading all the books by Jack Kerouac.
- Be a Mentor
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