Living Life to the Fullest

I am on sparkpeople (kind of like a facebook for people who are trying to lose weight and get healthy). I write a short, usually paragraph-long, blog on there every day. Today I didn't have anything planned I just started writing, and ended up with something about Live. Laugh. Love. Living life to the fullest, laughing till I cry, and loving till it hurts. (And by hurts I mean till you hurt when they hurt, or till it hurts when you are not close to them). I am great at the laughing and loving parts, but for years I have lived behind this facade of living life to the fullest, when in reality there are so many things that I want to do before I die that I haven't even scratched the surface of my bucket list. This got me thinking about living every day like it were my last. Well I know that I do not want to die lying on my couch watching reruns of whatever show. No. I want to die close to the people I love doing what I love or doing something new and exciting and adventurous. Or I want to die when I am 90+ years after I have completed my bucket list. So, that said I have decided to share my bucket list, partly because I have never officially written it down, and partly cause I want to see if anyone has anything different on their bucket list. Here goes!

Ride in a helicopter.

Travel the east coast of the U.S.

Ride in a hot air ballon.

Go sky diving.

See the Grand Canyon, and of course, yell into it. :)

Visit my Compassion boy in Kenya.

Travel through Europe.

Go to New Zealand.

Drive 100+ mph on a deserted road anywhere in the U.S.

Get married and have 2 or 3 kids.

Open my own daycare.

Move back to Maplewood.

Sponsor more Compassion children.

Adopt a child.

Learn how to cook.

Have a side job as a wedding planner.

Learn how to ski and snowboard.

Go zip-lining.

Learn how to water-ski.

Go on an Alaskan cruise and relive some childhood memories of holding glacier and watching glacier calves.

Design and have my dream house built.

This is only part of my list. What is on your bucket list? What do you want to do before you die, or what do you want to be doing when you die? Living life to the fullest, or sitting on the couch wasting away? I pray no one settles for the latter.