After taking a break from doing tours at my volunteer gig, I was back at it last weekend. At the end of the first tour, I chatted with a lady and asked her where she was visiting from. She and her 2 friends were from Surrey, BC that is. She explained to me that visiting the garden was on her bucket list. (side note: The Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden is listed in a book called "1000 places to see and do Before you Die")
"Bucket list", I said. "You're too young to have a bucket list!" I asked what some of her other to do items were on her list. She was going skydiving with her son this summer! Wow! Something I want to do too, one day. One of her friends showed me her list. She had about 30 items on it - I felt like I was invading her person space but she was happy to share. One of the items was to drink wine in Italy and another was, date a younger man. I've done both - yes, 1 1/2 years is still younger and drinking wine at an Italian villa in Tuscany was surreal. I only wish there was some hot younger guy(Trevor Linden) with me that day and I could have died happy then, but I digress.
I thought it was great that these ladies were determined to do what was on their lists. The other friend said that they're combined ages were 160, and one of them was not 100! So they weren't old, thus I questioned the "bucket list". Unless of course they were all terminally ill, which I hope they weren't!!
I have and make lists all the time. I have a list I call my "Dances with Wolves list". This is for movies that I'm sure are really great movies, like Dances with Wolves, but I just don't have any desire, at least not today, to see them. There's also the "Wish I could get back those 2 hours plus of my life wasted on watching crap movies list", which contains any tv movie that stars a hasbeen tv "star", ie Tory Spelling, Heather Locklear, Jack Wagner etc, in it. Yes, I can get sucked into wasting time on these cinematic gems, but refuse to spend 3 hours watching Dances with Wolves! This list also contains Eyes Wide Shut. WTF was that about ? Again 3 hours of that garbage but still, haven't even seen Terms of Endearment, another movie I hear is great.
I have a new years resolution list that is the same year in, year out. I just bring it out each January and just change the year at the top. One day, I'll cross some of those items off!
There is a website called 43things were you list your bucket list, so to speak. Things you really want to do. It shows you how many other people around the world who may be aiming for similar goals. Members could mark items off that they've completed and they can even cheer others on to make these goals/dreams a reality, motivate you. I have made lists on this site at least 3 times, having forgotten my passwords. So much for motivation.
But, I did say to myself that this was going to be a year of change, and those 3 broads have inspired me to really start to think about what it is I want out of life. I guess you are never to young to start your bucket list. Why should we wait until death stares us in the face to motivate us to do all those things we always wanted to do but were too afraid, didn't have time or put off for when we retire, presumably when we're too old and frail and can't even remember what it was we wanted to do!?
So, here goes. My partial " Bucket List" or "things I really want in life and I'm sure I'll get if I just apply the secrets from "the Secret" -
1) sell a Lisa made painting to someone I don't know and maybe make a enough money to buy a coffee!
2) learn how to read music again and play the guitar
3) visit Peru and Macchu Piccu , but not during the rainy season
4) visit Costa Rica and help baby turtles make it to the sea
5) wear a bikini with confidence, say somewhere on the French Riviera, and not look like a beached a whale - ie : not be one of those celebrity TMZ shots that say " she's like us, she has cellulite too!"
6) actually visit the Louvre and enjoy it instead of standing behind a 10 deep crowd of tourists in front of the Mona Lisa and not being able to appreciate it and having to get a really tall guy who was from Calgary, (saw the canadian flag) to take a picture of it so I can have a look at it after the photos were developed when I got home a month later. whew.
7) visit Ireland, London, Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, Melbourne, Paris, Prague, Moscow, Cairo, India, Peru. I've only been to a few of those place but would love to visit again.
8) to enjoy and effortless do downward facing dog without mumbling to myself " why am I subjecting myself to this torture?"
9) to visit a country in South American and a nation in Africa so I could say I've been to someplace on all 7 continents. Well, except Antarctica. I really don't want to go there! so 6 continents!
10) take a train ride across Canada and see this beautiful country but not before I try the sky trains, Millenium line, Canada line and that other one first!
11) dip my right big toe, and only my right big toe into the atlantic ocean.
12) I've never been to Vegas, baby! And perhaps this should be on a different list because I don't think on my death bed I'll regret never having been. Or will I?
13) win a lottery. Hey, somebody has to win. It'll probably be when I'm 78, old, and living in my van down by the river. "the secret"!
14) to marry Trevor Linden. Yes, this could happen.
15) to have his kids. This could happen too!
I guess this list could go on forever. So I better get started now and I'm starting on the marry Trevor Linden. So, Trevor, what have you been tweeting about lately? I'll find you! In the words of the Debbie Harry, while she was still with Blondie, "One way, or another, I'm gonna find you, I'm gonna, getcha !"
OOh, perhaps I should add one more item too my list:
16)to become a stalker in the truest sense! haha. I kid, really.
