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| I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH in August 2013. Visiting the legendary museum was part of a joint bucket list. |
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Bucket List - a cooler and less stressful version of a To-Do List. It can have
totally probable things on the list to totally outrageous
only-would-happen-if-I-Kardashian-sort-of-money things. And that is the fun
part.
I
have a few different bucket lists. I have concert bucket lists, destination
buckets lists and I share a few with close friends of mine. I have a few
joint bucket list with different friends of mine and we have thought of crazy,
fun and weird stuff to do together that range from "we could do this
tomorrow" to "this will literally never happen." The first joint
bucket list I ever made was with my friend Ashley while traveling out of Rome
on a bus in July 2012. We have actually done a few things both together and
separately since then.
I
am the go-getter type of person and Ashley is the creative one. Pretty perfect
combination when it comes to thinking and checking off adventures and
experiences off a bucket list. Some of the things on our bucket list were
painfully specific like “Go out to dinner with The Strokes” and “Ryan Gosling
has to save me.” At the time I was a huge Ryan Gosling fan but even now Ryan
Gosling saving me would be a dream come true and a beautiful coincidence. Not
exactly something that would most likely happen (but a girl can dream).
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favorite quote of mine is from “Easy
A” when the dad, Stanley Tucci, says, "We can now cross
off watching ‘The Bucket List’ off
our bucket list." It is as simple as that.
Making
a bucket list is important because it sets up the future whether you know it or
not. You check off from your bucket list whether you know it or not. Ashley and
I have each done a few things on the list separately and last November we were
supposed to fulfill one thing on the list together - going to see The Horrors
at a small venue but the show was unfortunately cancelled.
We
all have our dreams and adventures and we want to experience everything life
has to offer. A bucket list is perfect for all the dreamers out there. Even if
your bucket list contains “stalk Jimmy Page and see his record collection.” I
don’t even know where Jimmy Page lives or even if his beautiful record
collection is at his house. But that is the great thing about a bucket list -
it is supposed to be fun and silly and about yourself and what you want.
My
shared bucket list is outrageous and specific to the point where someone who
does not know us well would question nearly everything on the list but there is
also the probable and less-specfic things we want to do. We are dreamers and we
know how we want to spend our time. We aspire and we want to learn about the
world. We want to be wordly and share what we have. We are people living. It's
not about adding something to your life and crossing it off the list but adding
value to your life and how you share those experiences.
I
love the Eleanor Roosevelt quote that goes "do one thing every day that
scares you" but I don't necessarily believe that we have to live our lives
that way. Just as long as we do something out of the ordinary that we wouldn't
normally do occasionally. We should be challenging ourselves in life.
What's the next best thing we could do? Let's do something each
week that we would never do.
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| Spend more time at Fenway! We have already been to two games together and plan on going to more. |
I
also share a bucket list with my friend Leanne and our bucket list includes
completely feasible tasks like get similar piercings, tailgate before a
Patriots game at Gillette Stadium, visit the museum at TD Garden and go to more
Red Sox games. It's the simple things.
Even
with all the hilarious and far-fetched things Ashley and I want to do, it
surprises me that we haven't checked off the easiest thing on the list: to have
a wild house party at Ashley's.
It's about finding out what you want out of life. It's like clicking "more info" on your biography page so we can get to know the real you. A bucket list is all about you.