DON’T WAIT TO LIVE
Realistic Bucket List Living for
RIGHT NOW
by Jenn Baxter
I
had a “bucket list” before they were cool.
In fact, I don’t think the term bucket list was even
around yet.
But as I sat there as a 20-year-old in the kitchen of
my parents’ house at my super swanky Compaq
Presario computer (way to show my age right off
the bat), I knew that I wanted to DO stuff.
And by “stuff,” I didn’t mean just go drinking and
dancing with my girlfriends every weekend or follow the traditional college-job-marry-baby route.
I wanted to do FUN stuff. EXCITING stuff. Stuff
that I wouldn’t look back at the end of my life and
wish I had done.
So I made a “Life To Do” list that included everything from salsa dancing and karaoke singing, to
driving a race car and kissing atop the Empire State
Building at night. All total, it had 60 items that
were completely schizophrenic in nature.
As any bucket list worth its salt should be.
But then, life happened. Fast forward to 2013,
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