That's what I said once, I said it to the Key Holder, during an argument actually. I won't describe the details but sitting crossed legged on my bed I felt a little empty.
"It's just a hobby."
What? My writing is just a hobby? How could my passion, my very essence be pushed aside so easily? Do my dreams make me stupid? Is that what you thought?
"It would be nice if you did, but it's most likely you won't ever get published."
Well now I'll say this. I will get published. I will do the things I want to. I will thrive, and i'll be damned! if I let anyone tell me otherwise. Even you.
I wrote my list that day, most of it had always been in the back of my mind but now I decided to put it on paper. There is a road I've been on since as far back as I can remember, a road of freedom, of pure, passionate life. I wouldn't let that go to be the girl that lives in the street down the road, has three kids, a hated job and a crumpled piece of paper that got thrown away but never forgotten. In the back of my mind I thought I'll do this with or without you, and deep down knew it would be the latter.
A week later I booked and paid a deposit to do my Sky Dive. I didn't even tell anybody until the confirmation came through. It changed for you then didn't it Key Holder? I think it did. When you realised I would do everything I dreamt of and you couldnt change that. We certainly went in a downward spiral after that day, so don't deny it didnt have some bearing. The sky dive was first on my list because I'd thought about it since I was in primary school, it was the one solid thing I'd always wanted to do, it was also one of the most seemingly unreachable in my eyes. If I did this, I'd do everything.
My list will undoubtably gain new things as I go along, and get new ideas. I am keeping a scrapbook that shall express my creativity, documenting my adventures and with every page, the wonderful life I will live will be collected and stored. When I am old and I am fading, I will have this book to look back on and know that I did well in this life. I hope I eventually have children who will also appreciate its contents and be inspired from it.
So I don't forget when times are dull, rough, at a stand still, or just busy, I have framed and mounted my sky dive certificate, it watched me from the wall and it reminds me that I have a list and anything is achievable.
Here's the list...I've marked the ones already done with # hash tag and will continue to edit to show my progress to the world. It's in no particular order, I will do what I am able to whenever I can, there's no time limit or pattern to this list. I certainly don't intend to do any of these things in any particular order.
My Bucket
List
1. Sky Dive #
2. Skinny Dipping
3. Swim with Dolphins
4. Be in a movie
5. Send a message in a bottle
6. Fall in love #
7. Write and finish my novel
8. Move out of parents house
9. Grow an apple tree
10.
Enter into a bakery competition
11.
Join the W.I-Women’s Institutional
12.
Ride in a hot air balloon (Bristol
international Balloon festival) #
13.
Go to the theatre #
14.
See a music concert, a performer live
15.
Do the James Bond thing, Place a bet in Vegas,
maybe win big time in a bong girl dress
16.
Go fishing
17.
Scuba dive on ‘the great barrier reef’ Australia
18.
Be like crocodile Dundee, have a walk-a-bout
in the Australian Bush
19.
Go on safari
20.
A good real Camping trip
21.
Visit the forest of Dean
22.
Host a party #
23.
Host a better party
24.
Cook a really good Christmas dinner
25.
Host a Christmas party (like the Kranks)
26.
Christmas in New York
27.
Paris and the Eiffel tower
28.
South of France
29.
Pyramids of Egypt
30.
Statue of liberty
31.
Stone Henge
32.
The Grand Canyon
33.
Coliseum in Rome
34.
Great wall of China
35.
Northern Lights
36.
Have my fortune told
37.
Lose Virginity #
38.
Smoke #
39.
Horse riding #
40.
Get married, (Hopefully!) with a small but
beautiful wedding
41.
Get a tattoo-maybe :-/ probably not lol
42.
Get a dog
43.
Learn to drive
44.
Graduate university
45.
Publish something
46.
Drive/ride down route 66
47.
Trek America!
48.
Streak, like they did in the 70’s, wearing an American
flag
49.
Work with elephants
50.
Empire Estate building, (an affair to
remember)
51.
Eat Breakfast at Tiffneys (Audrey Hepburn)
52.
Go Clubbing #
53.
Watch the horse racing at Ascot, (wearing a
hat, as they do)
54.
Yorkshire dales, and three peaks
55.
Notre Dame
56.
Venice
57.
London (Window Shopping, London eye, big ben, Buckingham
palace, crown jewels)
58.
Vote (in honour of the suffragettes, the women
that fought for the right to vote.)
59.
White cliffs of dover
60.
“Sit on the dock of a bay, wasting time” –Otis
Redding inspired this one
61.
Have a baby
62.
Buy a car
63.
Ride in a yellow N.Y Cab
64.
Do a murder mystery weekend and be like Marple
and Poirot
65.
Cut my hair #
66.
Do well in GCSE’s#
67.
See the stars from the desert
68.
Solve the Labyrinth (Longleat Hedge maze)
69.
Hever castle, Kent (Home of Anne Boelyn)
70.
Quit a job
71.
Abseil down a building
72.
Take part in raising money for Charity #
73.
Settle in a cottage/house somewhere in the
countryside.
74.
Grow and maintain a vegetable patch
75.
Scotland
76.
Be a model for a day
77.
Ride on the back of motorbike on a day in the
country #
78.
Visit the Brontë museum (Haworth, North Yorkshire)#
79.
Drink in Starbucks #
80.
Clent Hills #
81.
Paragliding
82.
Buy mum a whole wardrobe of nice clothes
83.
Learn how to make chocolate
84.
Take the ‘waters’ in Bath
85.
Sex in a car
86.
Jane Austen’s Home Museum
87.
Take a boat trip
88.
Canoe down a river
89.
Camping trip around Ireland, (Galway, Dublin,
Cork, in a triangle)
90.
Wicklowe national park
91.
Hadrian’s wall
92.
The lizard peninsula, cornwall
93.
Ullwater and place fell, lake district
94.
Malvern hills
95.
Fitzwilliam museum
96.
Museum of wizardology, stratford-upon-avon
97.
Disney land!
98.
Windsor castle
99.
Go in a shark tank
100.
Do
another skydive, but with somebody this time
101.
Take
a scenic train journey
102.
Host
a masquerade ball
103.
Build
a time machine
104.
Go
back in time lol
105. Rock Climbing #
106. Visit Land's end, Cornwall
107. Visit Clovelly, Devon
108. Visit the Lake District, Cumbria
109. Cast a large wiccan circle for a pagan festival with a gathering of people
110. Grow a vegetable patch I can be proud of.
111. own a micro pig
105. Rock Climbing #
106. Visit Land's end, Cornwall
107. Visit Clovelly, Devon
108. Visit the Lake District, Cumbria
109. Cast a large wiccan circle for a pagan festival with a gathering of people
110. Grow a vegetable patch I can be proud of.
111. own a micro pig
112. Visit Agatha Christie Home: Greenway
113. Visit Pemberley
114. Do a girly spa visit-just for the fun of it.
115. Learn to swim, stop being afraid of water and drowning.
114. Do a girly spa visit-just for the fun of it.
115. Learn to swim, stop being afraid of water and drowning.
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