Check That Off My Bucket List

While I was sitting on the patient table giving blood this week, I was thinking about the bucket list  I wrote when I was in 8th grade. I recently was able to cross a few things off and I was brainstorming ways that I could check a few more off the list before I turn 20. As I was squeezing that little red ball to get my blood flowing, it occurred to me that one of the items on my list was "save a life." When I put this down on my list, I envisioned myself pushing a kid out of the way of a moving car or pulling someone out of a burning building. Although this might be a far stretch for "problem solving," I determined that by donating blood and potentially saving 3 lives, that I could in fact cross another item off my bucket list!! I realize this isn't the most profound use of creativity and problem solving, but it made my day to know that I saved a life (maybe) and that I'm making progress on my bucket list!

Side note... I highly recommend starting a bucket list and seeing where it takes you! Here's mine, which I continually add to, but it might give you some starting ideas!

Bucket List

1.     Make someone laugh so hard they cry

2.     Build a house for Habitat for Humanity

3.     Sky dive

4.     Go to a drive in movie

5.     Spend a whole day in bed

6.     Run a half marathon

7.     Try five different brands of energy drinks

8.     Write a song

9.     Graduate college

10.  Buy a homeless person a full meal

11.  Kiss someone I love on New Year’s

12.  Get a pet fish and name him Leonard/Lenny

13.  Save a life

14.  Be in four places at once

15.  Ride an elephant

16.  Visit Africa

17.  Tell someone the story of your life

18.  Kiss at the top of a Ferris wheel

19.  Say “I do”

20.  Ride a horse on the beach

21.  Go to New York City in the winter as ice skate on the rink in front of Rockefeller center

22.  Watch an Olympic competition in person

23.  Fall in love

24.  Drive on the Autobahn

25.  Windsurf

26.  Learn to play the guitar

27.  Send a message in a bottle

28.  Create a new word

29.  Write a children’s story book

30.  Sleep under the stars

31.  Ski a double-black diamond

32.  Throw a dart at a map and travel to wherever it lands

33.  Ride in a helicopter

34.  See a World Cup match live

35.  Go on a safari

36.  Go on a road trip

37.  Watch the sun rise and sunset in the same day

38.  Ride in a hot air balloon

39.  Ride a mechanical bull

40.  Go white water rafting

41.  Be a part of La Tomatina in Valencia, Spain

42.  Get at tattoo