I went to an amazing program at NACURH in Pittsburgh, NACURH stands for The National Association of College and University Residence Halls Incorporated (I know it's a mouthful, just bear with me). The program was all about creating your very own "Bucket List." The program was inspiring with a truly powerful message, a message I have always endorsed: Follow your dreams, whatever they may be.
And so, from that moment on I decided to create my very own list. I knew for a fact I didn't want to call it a, "Bucket List" which, from my understanding is a list of things you create before you kick the bucket (on a side note my 7th grade teacher Mrs. Robinson taught me what that meant and let me tell you it is morbid and you should look it up if you do not know where that phrase stems from) anyway, a "Bucket List" is just too depressing so today I am here to present to you my "Will Happen List." Sure the name may not be as well known, but it's my list and my name so there! Plus I like the idea of writing things that will happen in my life because well they just will. Many items on my list seem totally unrealistic and farfetched, however, it is my "Will Happen List," therefore, I know the items I have written will indeed happen. Okay, because I know you are dying to see what I have written I will unfold my list for the world to see. I plan to cross them off on this very blog as I complete each one and hopefully have a picture to go along with it. Know, the items on this list are in no particular order and are actually written quite randomly.
Will Happen List
Write a "Will Happen List"
- Sing on Broadway in New York
- Work at a hostel
- Marry the man of my dreams
- Dress up for a movie premier at the movie theater
- Learn Italian
- Join or start a band
Join the Peace Corps
- Give anonymously to a charity
- Write a bestseller
- Ride a gondola in Venice, Italy
- Dance with Justin Timberlake
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Sky dive
- Be in Ireland on St.Patty's Day
- Become a mother
- Drive a motorcycle
- Anchor the news somewhere
- Spend Christmas on the beach
Attain a college degree
- Go to Oktoberfest
- Get a song I have written on the radio
- Read a book a month for one whole year
- Ride on the back of a Vespa in Italy
- Learn how to play guitar
- Learn to swing dance
- Catch a fish and eat it
Post a photo every day for one whole year- Get in the Guinness Book of World Records
Be in a wedding not my own
Go on a blind date- Get something or someone named after me
- Be in a roller derby
Skinny dip at midnight
- Go paragliding
- Stand on the International Date Line
- Be in a television episode
- Get my blog to have 100 followers
- Go to Burning Man
- Be part of a flash mob
- Ride in a hot air balloon
Shout, "drinks are on me" in a bar or pub and mean it- Take my mama Rose to the Vatican
- Leave a job I dislike very much
- Street perform and make $100
- Attend a film premiere
- Live in a place I love
Milk a cow
- Pay off my student loans
Throw an awesome party(Mathletes Vs. Athletes)
Destroy a computer just like inOffice Space
- Create my own cocktail
- Go to the World Cup
- Throw a dart into a map and travel where it lands
- Write the story of my life
Learn how to skip rocks(This is the man who taught me)
- Go bungee jumping
- Sleep in a hammock
- Send my parents on an all expense paid vacation
- Attend a Cosplay event
- Go to the Olympics
- Dress up and go to a costume party
- Host Saturday Night Live
- Stay up all night conversing with friends until we watch the sunrise
- Start a slow clap in a large crowd
- Achieve my ideal weight
- Travel to every continent (So far I've been to The America's, Europe, and Africa three more to go)
- Share my "Will Happen List" in every way I can (you never know who can help you)
Publish an article in a newspaper(http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/life/inspire/2015/04/30/visalia-woman-shares-experience-peace-corps/26665971/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=)- Drive a husky sled
- Work for Disney
- Stay in a resort somewhere
- Get a celebrity's autograph
- Ride a camel to the Pyramids in Egypt
Ride a camel in the Sahara Desert
- Ride an elephant in Thailand
- Sing with Ewan McGregor
- Fly first class
- Kiss a stranger on New Year's eve in New York
Go snorkeling
Live somewhere outside the United States for more than a year
- Crowd surf
- Visit Kauai
- Be a vegan for 21 days
- Learn every Nicki Minaj rap
- Fly a kite
- Read, Oh the Places You'll Go to Kindergartners
- Pack my bags and go to a random location with no itinerary planned at all
- Get my pilot's license
Plant a tree
- Say yes to everything and everyone for one whole day
- See the Northern Lights
- Write a song about my friends Katie, Kylie, and Loryn
Perform five random acts of kindness without expecting anything in return
- Try an exotic food that sounds and looks disgusting (who knows I might like it!)
- Connect with the teachers and mentors from my past- college, high school, junior high, and elementary. Let them know how much they influenced my life.
- Visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial
- Invent a word and get it added to the dictionary
Get straight A's
- Go on a cruise
- Learn how to play the bagpipes
- Try couch surfing at least once
- Own a Thunderbird
- Go to New York and see a Broadway show
- Inspire five other people to create their own "Will Happen List"
- Voice act for a Disney Princess
- Go to a wine tasting
- Live in Scotland, Italy, or Germany for at least 6 months
- Get a T-Shirt quilt made
- Attain a Masters Degree
Dance on top of a bar
- Swim with sharks
- Work in a pub or at a bar
- Serve on a jury
- Fly in a helicopter
- See the Grand Canyon in person
- Rock climb Red Rock
The list can be anything you really want in life, no matter how crazy another person might think it is, search inside and figure out what it is you want to do. I hope after reading my list you are inspired to go and create your own list, because as my blog reminds us all: Time Doesn't Grow on Trees.
