I've got big dreams. Like...crazy, big dreams. But don't we all? I know so many people who have put aside their dreams and their passions in favor of a stable job. That weekly paycheck is awfully tempting, I know. I've been there. Except, I wasn't satisfied. My soul was burning, and crying. It was reaching out, trying to escape the cubicle I forced it into.
It took me two years after graduating college to have the courage to pursue the life I want to live. Now that I have taken the first steps on that path, I am overwhelmed with this sense of possibility. Anything is possible, life is wonderful, and the world is beautiful.
My eighty-something year old neighbor passed away the other night. Yesterday, my brothers friend was found dead in his car. Suicide, they're saying. Two lives, one, teetering on the edge of opportunity. The world was his oyster. The other, a life well lived. A WWII vet, who sixty years ago, was fighting Nazis. Our lives here are a fraction of time. What we do with that fleeting, brief moment is up to us. What we make of our time here, is ours to decide. We have the power within us to do great things. To see, feel and experience the world. Why do so many people cower from lifes magnificence? I cannot answer that question, and I am (more often that I'd like to admit) guilty of the crime. We become overwhelmed, and afraid. We hurt.
But we are stronger than we realize. We are also braver than we realize.
This is why, for 2013, I am starting a personal blog project called: "Bucket List: 365."
365 adventures in 365 days.
Here are the first 30 Bucket List items I've come up with. My list needs to be much, much bigger. Suggestions are welcomed, and encouraged.
1. Watch baby turtles hatch in the wild.
2. Listen to a stranger tell their life story.
3. Learn how to ride a horse.
4. Ride an elephant.
5. Cook something completely new, and challenging!
6. Watch all of the Godfather Movies.
7. Go skydiving.
8. Go rock-climbing outside.
9. Learn to surf.
10. Visit Niagra Falls.
11. Go trapeze-ing.
12. Stay up all night, and watch the sunrise.
13. Be part of a flash mob.
14. Go skinny dipping.
15. Spend a day in silence.
16. Learn to scuba dive.
17. See the Northern Lights.
18. Participate in a 5K.
19. Ride in a hot-air balloon.
20. Swim with dolphins.
21. Sleep under the stars.
22. See a Cirque-de Soliel show.
23. Learn a magic trick.
24. Take a ballroom dance class.
25. Learn to snowboard.
26. Plant a tree.
27. Learn to knit.
28. Give out free hugs.
29. Compliment a stranger.
30. Learn to juggle.
There are some big ticket items in here, and some small. I need a wide variety of each. I'll post my next 30 tomorrow! The adventure begins on New Years Day. January 1, 2013.
I have no idea if this is going to work. But why not try?
My days will now begin at 4:30. I do my best writing before dawn, anyway. I've written out an entire daily schedule for myself, and yet, I still don't think there are enough hours. I have to manage to squeeze into my day: writing time, business/PR time, yoga, bucket-time, blogging, and my part-time waitressing gig. In August, I will have to balance it with a move to Israel and earning my masters. The busier I am, the more I am capable of accomplishing. I've always been like that. The stakes are higher, and the mind is sharper. If I devote my mornings to business and PR, then my afternoons and evenings can be devoted to this project.
Time to live, dammit!
Happy almost New Year, everyone. Make your life the adventure you always wanted.
Love,
Ariela
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