When I started college, my friends and I made “college bucket lists”. We wanted to make our four years unforgettable, so we filled our lists with every first we wanted to have. Every little experience we hoped to have during our time in college, we wrote it down! Before real life started, we wanted to check off every single whacky box.
It doesn’t matter how simple or how crazy our bucket lists were. They were ours. They were full of our different, unique firsts.
A bucket list evolves and changes as you grow. Throughout your whole life you are going to develop new ways of thinking, new priorities, new opinions, new hopes and dreams. During college, you might want to experience things like having your first drink or getting your first tattoo. Ten years later, maybe all you’ll hope to accomplish is parenthood or owning a house.
No matter how insignificant and small the contents of a bucket list might seem to some, to the person writing it, it’s their light. It’s a list of the things they want to experience and feel during their lives.
This is for nobody but yourself.
Saying that you want to do something for yourself, and then doing it, is a feeling that stays with you. Your first spring break trip, first time finding the right job, learning a new language, whatever it is you hope to do, it feels incredible to actually do it.
Bucket lists are traditionally filled with crazy things that would be convenient to do before you die. They’re typically written with a slightly comical, hyperbolic tone. Why is that though? What’s keeping you from doing those things?
Since I moved to the United States in 2007, I can’t shake my desire to travel these 50 amazing states. I want to take in everything that the country has to offer. I want to find out what there is to do in Nevada on a Friday night, talk to someone with a Wisconsin accent, try new foods, meet interesting, new people, go to a music festival in Utah!
My dream is to travel the country and share the intricacies of the 50 states that make up this large community we are all a part of. We’re all so different but also so similar. I want to experience what every different place has to offer. I want the new experiences and the spontaneity that you can have in life. I want to live my life and take it all in.
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