It’s true though. Some people just live their lives, never actually achieving anything. It makes you wonder what the point of them being here is really. When my Mama passed away in April, she was only 49. She probably never got to do half the things she wanted to do, and it made me realise that life is far too short to sit around hoping good things will happen to you. My Mum has become my motivation for everything I do. If I think I can’t do something, I just think of her and it spurs me on. I think of what she will miss out on now, and it makes me want to fulfil all of my ambitions because you really never know when your last day will be.
I could live till I’m 100, but I could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so from now on I must live every day like it’s my last! No more moaning. Little Miss Proactive has been born!
So before I kick the proverbial bucket, here is a list of things that I simply must do/see/achieve!
1. See a tornado in real life (Twister is the best film ever made HA!)
2. Watch a rocket take off (I am so depressed that stupid old NASA have stopped the shuttle launches though!)
3. Drive across America in some kind of convertible Thelma and Louise type car.
4. Ski down a black run without falling/breaking my legs/dying
5. Do the 3 peaks challenge
6. Swim with dolphins (So standard but it would be pretty amaze)
7. Run a 10k race (I am far too lazy for this but have signed up for the Bayer 10k in May. Oh dear)
8. Further my education by getting an MA or Charters
9. Have at least 3 children
10. Get married to the love of my life (Yet to find such a man, applications currently being accepted.)
11. See the statue of Christ on that big hill in Brazil
12. Go to the Colossuem in Rome
13. Go to Glastonbury Festival
14. Roll down a really big hill
15.
16. Get to my ideal weight (Not telling you what that is, cheers thanks.)
17. Work a season abroad, either ski or summer
18. Do a bungee jump
19. Volunteer at a cancer hospice
20. Learn to scuba dive (even though I’m scared of deep water, rocks, fish and shipwrecks eek!)
21. See the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
22. Get better at playing the piano (chopsticks no longer cuts it)
23. Learn to fly a plane (I want to be a pilot so I can fly myself on holiday and not be scared)
24.
25. Own my own cupcake shop
26. Go travelling across the world at least once.
27. Learn to speak a language fluently (I’m thinking Spanish is easy, that’s what the thick kids did at school)
28. Learn to surf in Hawaii
29. Go to Scotland (literally cannot believe I have never been!)
30. Go and see Mount Rushmore
31. Knit a scarf
32. Go wine tasting in France (YUM!)
33. Volunteer somewhere like a Russian orphanage
34. Design and build my own house in the countryside (Maybe I can be on Grand Designs ha, I do love a bit of Kevin McCloud)
35. Use my journalistic skills and get an article published in a national newspaper
36. Randomly rock up to Heathrow, buy a ticket on the next plane out of there and see where I end up (hopefully not Iraq or something OH MY!)
37. Have a ride in a fighter jet and do barrel rolls and flips, think Top Gun.
38. Live in a foreign country for at least 3 months
39.
40. Set foot in all 7 continents (Uhhhh 1 might be difficult. How do you get to Antarctica anyway?!)
41. Visit the Taj Mahal
42. Write a cookery book (I want to be the next Nigella)
43. Go to Lapland at Christmas to visit Santa
44. Go to Time Square in New York for New Years Eve
45.
46. Organise a massive charity event where everyone has a lovely time and we raise lots of money :)
47. Get another tattoo (one relating to my Mama)
48. Go to a spa for the whole weekend to be pampered and drink champagne
49. Make a time capsule and bury it somewhere cool for people to dig up in 100 years
50. Do a sponsored silence (I like to talk A LOT so this would be an immense challenge!)
51. Go and watch Wimbledon (centre court)
52. Visit every country in Europe (This will be a fun one! I have done 10/50 I think. Not a great start..)
53. Enter a craft or baking competition at a country fair
54. Visit Ramsay Street
55. Take a cruise around the Caribbean (a cool one, not one with 1000 elderly people on a SAGA holiday)
56. Be able to do the splits
57. Start taking more of an interest in photography to carry on my Mum’s hobby (she was really good at taking artistic pictures of things like flowers and the sea!)
58. Become a newsreader (I’m soo the next Fiona Bruce)
59. Do a week-long bootcamp
60. Swim in the Dead Sea
61. Ride a horse along a beach
62. Visit St Maartens in the Caribbean and go to the beach where the planes fly about 2 metres above your head!
63. Ride all the rollercoasters in the USA (SURELY impossible!!)
64. Snuggle in bed all weekend and only get out to wee HAHAH A
OK. Looks like I have a lot to do. Best be getting on with it!! I'm sure I will add more as and when I think of them too...!
I know some of the things seem totally stupid or unachievable but if you can’t dream and push yourself then what is the point of living?
Do you have a bucket list? Or do you have any ideas of things I may like to add to mine? Let me know :)
Love
Lauren x
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