Erin The Great

I was watching a movie the other day at the theatre when I saw a preview for ‘The Bucket List’. For those of you who have not seen this preview, it shows Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as two terminally ill cancer patients. They come up with a ‘bucket list’ or a list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket.

            This got me thinking. Why should I wait until I’m old to create a pathway for experiences? At the young age of 25, I’ve decided I’m going to create a ‘bucket list’ of 10 random/crazy/fun things I want to do every decade until I finally kick it. So, having lived at least 5 years of this particular decade in my life, here is the list for the rest of the 5 years…

1. Write a fan letter to Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden of ‘I
Dream of Jeannie’.
2. Climb a billboard and eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
3. Hit a parade on ‘Fat Tuesday’ in New Orleans.
4. Visit a foreign country, excluding Canada and Mexico.
5. Go ‘tray surfing’… This is when you take a food tray from a
food court or cafeteria and surf in a parking lot while holding
onto a car door or the bed of a truck.
6. Create my own parade. Get friends involved by decorating
trucks and cars and making floats and then drive single-file
down a road waving.

The rules of the ‘Bucket List’ require 10 things that you want to accomplish. The last four, I’ve actually accomplished in the previous 5 years.

1. Be an extra in a TV show… Accomplished at age 21.
2. Karaoke in a bar in Texas… Accomplished at age 22 and won
$50 in the process.
3. Start my own Blog… Accomplished at 24.
4. Run in a bikini in the snow on the campus of Brigham Young
University… accomplished at age 22 & 23, and even made the
campus paper.

There are other things that I’ve accomplished and have bragging rights to, but a lot of those were accomplished before I turned 20.

In the immortal words of James Dean ‘Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today’.