My Bucket List

After a request from a reader to see this Bucket List I decided it was time to put it up. I am forever adding to it, so this is in no way conclusive, but this is where I'm at for now...

1. Have Breakfast at Tiffany’s

2. Photograph a wedding

3. Be a bridesmaid

4. Have something of mine published (article, short story, poem etc)

5. Go scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef

6. Plan a wedding

7. Get baptized

8. Be a Godmother

9. Decorate my own house

10. Make a dress for myself

11. Live in a foreign country for at least 3 months (Lived in Belgium with my family for 3 years)

12. Be able to live with my body as intended in Eden (not be ashamed when naked)

13. Get a degree

14. Learn how to drive

15. Become fluent in French

16. Have my honeymoon planned for me

17. Spend a night under the stars on a beach

18. Stay up all night to watch the sun rise (Completed on the night of our school Leaver's Ball)

19. Go skinny-dipping at night

20. Learn how to ballroom dance (for my wedding!)

21. Become a mentor

22. Become a Vegetarian for a month (Completed last year during Lent)

23. See the Northern Lights

24. Live by myself for at least a month

25. Cook a full 5-course meal by myself

26. Have a pet tortoise named speed

27. Fall in love and land safely

28. Be able to call someone ‘my husband’

29. Send £100 to a random person

30. Do at least a month of volunteer work (I am currently spending my year as a volunteer)

31. Have a 24-hour movie marathon

32. Fly first-class

33. Make a time capsule and bury it

34. Be a surrogate mother

35. Be in Times’ Square to see the New Year Ball drop

36. Walk in the Rainforest

37. Sleep in a hammock

38. Sleep on a waterbed

39. Get a vintage engagement ring

40. Get a personally engraved wedding ring

41. Fall asleep in someone’s arms (Details not required, but yes, I have indeed done this)

42. Go on a road trip

43. Be kissed in the rain

44. Take a shower in a waterfall

45. See a shooting star

46. Give birth

47. Go on a trip abroad with less than a day’s notice

48. Live without Internet for a month

49. Grow my own vegetables

50. Make a Quilt

51. Raise £1,000 for charity

52. Grow my hair down to my waist

53. Meet Switchfoot

54. Visit the Holy Land

55. Go fishing and make supper from whatever I catch

56. Read a book for 24 hours solid

57. Drive from one side of a country to the other in a day

58. Plant a tree

59. Ride a camel

60. Send a message in a bottle

61. Get 3 A grades at A-level (I finished school with AAAB)

62. Be a virgin when I marry

63. Be proposed to and say yes

64. Lead worship on guitar

65. Have a song written for me (Completed by my beautiful friends... it's called 'Waiting for Eve'!)

66. Help bring someone to Christ

67. Help baptize someone

68. Write a novel

69. Do the number

70. Read the whole Bible

71. Complete the ‘Photo-a-day’ challenge

72. Knit a scarf (Knitted a snood for myself last Christmas)

73. Laugh until I wet myself

74. Be an answer to prayer

75. Dig up the time capsule 10 years later

Several of these (16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 28, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 62, 63, and 69) can only be done, or would preferrably be done with a husband. But that doesn't stop me doing the others now!

I had a wonderful chat last night with some lovely people (this is also a little shout-out to a little reader... yes, Matt, that's you!) and they reminded me that sometimes it's ok to do things for me. I am spending my whole year volunteering as an intern, and even outside of that, I find myself living for other people's satisfactions and expectations. But I don't want to do that any more. From now on, I'm going to start working through this list and doing things because I want to.

Do you guys have things you really want to do in your life?