I Never Really Believed in a ‘Bucket List’

It was always something that made me cringe when I hear it. My thoughts were, why would you limit yourself to checking off a list and potentially ignoring experiences right under your nose. See in my mind a bucket list was almost like a to-do list, of tourist photo spots, fancy hotels, and bragging rights of how many countries you’d be to. 

I refused to make one. Yet still, in my mind, I was always coming up with wild dreams. So many dreams that honestly I do not know what to do with them. I get excited about one and then another comes into play and because I refuse to make this damn list, it all becomes very overwhelming. 

Age hasn’t ever bothered me unless it comes to visas. There is an age limit to these working holiday visas that I have been living on for the past couple of years and that scares me. How can I fit everything into such a short amount of time and really do it all well. Slow, you know. 

SO this year is all about scribbling out a DREAM list and letting go of any time limits. Here are some of the first on the list:

• Experience life with Sami people in Norway

• Learn how to pack horses for trekking (and ride in the Snowy Mountains)

• Pakistan . . .

What do you do when you have too many wild ideas?

How do you settle on one? Or better yet how do you pick the best one to go first before all the others?