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In fifteen days, I turn 40.
This gives me no time to fill my “Before 40” bucket list – the list of activities I wished I had accomplished before I turn 40. There are things I would have loved to cross off before this impending birthday, but it doesn’t look like these will happen.
Here is my “not going to accomplish before 40” bucket list.
- Meet the love of my life (could happen, probably won’t)
- Write a book
- Go to New York City
- Get married
- Go to Europe
- See Van Morrison in concert again
- Run a marathon/half-marathon
- Have a child (birth or adoption)
- Buy a house
- Meet Ben Affleck
- Take a cake decorating class
- Be an extra in a movie
I’m sure there’s other items…
Have some of you felt the urge to complete certain activities before you turned 30, 40, 50, etc? What happened when you didn’t complete them? Did you feel discouraged or even less than whjole?
Or did you save them for the next decade?
Why is completing our dreams so important by a certain age? I think about Jesus the man, especially this Holy Week, I wonder if he was at a content place before he died? Did he have his own Bucket List? Was Jesus’ bucket list one that included improving the conditions for the poor and expendables during his time? Was it one that included a significant other, marriage and children?
Or was he just blissful living fully in each moment? Maybe that should be #1 on my list.
If you do have a way to help me make the other 12 things happen in the next 15 days, let me know…
Michelle L. Torigian 