My Bucket List

So I’m sure we all know what a bucket list is by now. A list of things one wants to do before he or she “kicks the bucket.” I don’t think it is possible to find fulfillment in life by completing a simple checklist, that’s not what I’m trying to do with this. Instead, I see a bucket list more like a list of desires (some more serious than others) that I wish to experience but I know deep down shouldn’t define who I am. Life always changes, as will this list. Enjoy!

-Travel the US and visit all 50 states (well, at least the ones worth visiting.)
-Go outside the country (Puerto Rico spring of 2004)
-Visit New Zealand
-Tour Europe
-Pet a Panda
-Eat the world’s best burger
-Fight a dangerous animal (and win)
-Get a pug, name it Ebenezer
-Create a web comic and update it regularly for a year.
-Conquer a fear
-Turn 21
-Do something nice for the worst animal ever (opossum)
-Jump in a pool with all my clothes on… like in the movies
-Ride a helicopter
-Move to another state
-Read the Bible cover-to-cover
-Beat 100 videogames
-Beat 500 videogames
-Watch the top 100 movies of all time
-Read 50 of the best novels of all time.
-Get a Philly Cheesesteak FROM PHILADELPHIA
-Get married
-”Have fun” on my wedding night
-Watch Lost until it is finished
-Have a career in something I love.
-Go to a Hollywood red carpet event
-Learn to play an instrument
-Memorize a book of the Bible
-Save someone’s life.
-Become a father
-Survive something dangerous
-Get a bike
-Become an old man.
-Spontaneously combust
-See Sufjan Stevens Live
-Mark in my bird identification book that I have honestly seen every species of bird in Virginia.
-Learn how cars work
-Learn to like every kind of food ever.
-Understand the meaning of just one song by Animal Collective
-Love someone unconditionally
-Learn to sing (well)
-Fill a moleskine cover-to-cover with semi-intellegent/meaningful notes
-To stop using my talents in selfish ways
-Get shot (survive) and pull the bullet out with my bare hands
-Learn to dance
-Get stranded on a deserted island
-Be a part of a (good intentioned) heist
-Cry openly in public
-Laugh so hard I pee my pants
-Invest my time with someone in need
-Discover a new species of animal (not as impossible as it sounds guys… new species are discovered every day)
-Shake the hand of Shigeru Miyamoto
-Shake the hand of Hayao Miyazaki
-Shake the hand of a president
-Catch every Pokémon without cheating
-Win a game of Risk
-Voice a cartoon character
-Let someone else make a big decision for me.
-Travel somewhere far by train
-Travel somewhere far by boat
-Travel somewhere far by bus
-Go backpacking
-Be on program for Young Life for a weekend
-Learn to ride a horse
-Break a wild horse
-See 1,000 movies (rate 1,000 movies on Netflix)
-Go white water rafting
-Camp out on the beach
-Watch every DVD/ Blu Ray I own
-Build a tree house
-Be hypnotized
-Hypnotize someone
-Sheer a sheep
-Become fluent in another language

9 Responses to My Bucket List

  1. Sarah says:

    You got a philly cheese steak in philly!
    And you finished Lost!

  2. The Merchant says:

    This is amazing, stranger! ‎ס_סּﬞ

  3. Izzy says:

    When did you do something nice for an opossum??

    • joshlamm says:

      This summer I saw one dead on the side of the road in Richmond. I walked up to it and laughed. But I saw its little fetus babies trying to drink the milk from its dead mother. (I heard opossums are so evil they only have non-dairy powdered milk) Anyways, I couldn’t help but feel bad for the little pink mammal-shrimp so I called the wildlife rescue people, but they didn’t want to have anything to do dumb old opossums. I TRIED to help them.

      • Trina says:

        you should have called your Mother. I would have saved them. I helped raise some when I was in hight school. :)

  4. RMB says:

    You have a bird identification book?

    • joshlamm says:

      I sure do! My high school science teacher gifted it to me because he knew how interested I was in birds. Mr Leta is the man.

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