Before getting into what I’d love to do—because my Bucket List is beautifully optimistic, completely idealistic, a tad bit silly, and not necessarily in line with reality—I’m going to start with 17 things I’ve done.
Accomplished:
- flown a plane (I sat in the pilot’s seat while the plane was in the air and worked the yoke)
- studied foreign languages in two different countries
- traveled to Europe
- did a homestay program in Japan
- moved to Seoul
- read many books (most in English, a few in French, a handful in Korean, and a couple in Japanese)
- touched a page from an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible
- took a workshop on letterpress printing
- had an article published about me in my state’s newspaper (there was a long interview and a photographer came to my house)
- went snowboarding
- studied violin for a few years
- volunteered at libraries, at charity events, at schools with underprivileged children, in two different countries, at college fairs, at a museum, at an organization that teaches adults to read, in a guidance program…
- graduated from an Ivy League university (as a child I really wanted to do this)
- made a robot
- took a class on gayageum
- booked an overseas trip for my mom
- wrote a story that’s five hundred thousand words long or thereabouts
Bucket List (things I’d love to do):
- take a ridiculous amount of photos (perhaps 717,013)
- learn to play the piano well
- → compose a song
- learn to play the violin well
- → play one of Samuel Zygmuntowicz’s violins or a Balestrieri
- do a front aerial
- run a 5k
- learn CPR
- climb Mt. Fuji
- visit six continents
- take my mother on a trip to France
- fly first class across an ocean
- explore many museums (perhaps 150)
- speak, read, and write in four languages at a native level (English, Korean, French, and Japanese)
- → do an interview in Korean
- wear a skirt or dress every day for a month
- learn a skill that’s location independent
- win a Pulitzer
- get married
- adopt a child
- have a child
- have enough money to live comfortably, travel, support my family, and send my children to university
- donate one million US dollars to charity directly or indirectly
- → pay for someone else’s education
- participate in Mensa
- give a lecture at a university
- get an M.A., J.D., Ph.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. (Yes!)
- write a nonfiction book
- read a staggering amount
- get a castle in France (this is a goal I created as a child—it’s silly, but why not? Every time I think of it, I laugh because it’s so random and hilarious)
- have my own library
- adopt a pet from a shelter
- glorify God
- help others fulfill their goals
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