This weekend C and I went to breakfast at a place that,
instead of asking for your name to call out when your order is ready, asks for
your bucket list item. We had never been there and were a little taken aback –
bucket list? I don’t know what’s on my bucket list! My smart ass husband didn’t
know what was going on right away and turned it back on the cashier – what’s on
YOUR bucket list?
Anyhow, I blurted out ITALY and so that’s what was called
out when our biscuits and gravy and eggs came out. I’m not sure if Italy is on
my bucket list. Would I like to go? Sure. Is it something I would feel
incomplete having not done before I die? I really don’t know how to answer
that. C would say that the concert that we were supposed to see this weekend
which got moved to October would be a bucket list item.
Skydiving was a popular answer, and there was another
Italy in the mix before we left. One person simply used “Live Well”. I think
that’s an excellent answer. That’s the most lovely request out of life – to live
well.
So this morning I’m back at work, so of course I’m
thinking about my bucket list. I just can’t think of anything I feel like I
HAVE to do in my life. Perhaps I’m being too serious about it. Maybe I should
come up with things that I would like to do, that will make me happy to do.
Travelling is up there – I’d like to see Europe, I’d really like to see Australia
and New Zealand. I’d like to run a half marathon (no ambition at all for the
full 26.2 miles). I’d love to have the money to fix up my mom’s house
completely and pay off all her debt. I’d like to see more Broadway shows (since
I’ve only seen one).
But the things that make me happiest, looking forward in
my life, are quite simple. I want to grow old and be comfortable in life – not needing
to be rich but not worrying about how to pay my next bills. I want to see my
sons grow up and be happy and pursue whatever vocation makes them content. I
want grandchildren and daughters (or sons, I’m not picky) in laws. I want the
time to spend with my loved ones and the awareness to realize what I have and
to embrace it.
I want to live well.
What’s on your bucket list?
(BTW, this is where we had breakfast, and if you are anywhere in the vicinity of Jacksonville run - don't walk - to this place. I've never had better biscuits and gravy. Ever.)
5 comments:
First of all what was the concert?
Now that the important questions are out of the way, I have to say that I haven't given MUCH thought to my bucket list, but probably these would be on it:
Make enough money to not have to look at all the bills every month and make sure that we can pay them.
Get some sort of recognition/job from my podcast.
Get published in some way.
Do a face to face interview with a musician I admire.
Probably visit at least England and Scotland if not more of the world outside of the country.
...
there are probably more, but i'm blanking
I just looked up the concert and I am SO. BUMMED. I will literally miss it by ONE DAY. Now granted, I have already seen Sir Paul. But it's enough of a bucket list item to have it on there twice. :)
As for the rest of the bucket list, I really have no idea. I do ponder this questions frequently, though. I think what it boils down to is I am too indecisive to even come up with a definitive list. :)
That is such an interesting idea as a restaurant. I bet very few people eating there have nothing to talk about, since such a big conversation starter is given as you order! I don't really know what's on my bucket list, either. I tend to see it as a list of things that would be fun to do, that won't all get done, and that aren't a big deal if they don't - like travel and stuff.
I love this idea so much! Kudos to the restaurant for coming up with a fun conversation starter.
I have a few things on my bucket list, but nothing that would be an absolute tragedy if I didn't cross them off. (And, sometimes, I wonder if it's ME or societal pressures or wanting to be "cool" as to why I've claimed them as bucket list items.) Things like traveling to Europe, going skydiving, getting married. Mainly, though, like you I want to be happy. I want to be content with my life, financially stable so I can pay my bills but also be able to do fun things I want to do. I want love and connection and family and friends. I want to be successful in the way I define it, which is something I'm still figuring out.
Your answers and thoughts behind your "bucket list" made me like you so much more.
You are such a lovely person, April.
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