The purpose of bucket lists used to throw me off- I thought they were morbid, silly, even impractical before realizing that’s kind of the point. People make them to introspect, pinpoint their whimsical desires no matter how outrageous, set meaningful goals and sort out what they want to get out of their life. After all, ”your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.”

My ever-changing, curlicuing Bucket List.

• Be a Mom
• Be Poly-lingual (English, French, Turkish, Italian or Russian)
• Learn how to play the Cello or Piano
• Write a novel
• Read all of Shakespeare and Jane Austen’s works
• Get into Med School
   
• Paris—Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Centre Pompidou
• Rome—Trevi Fountain, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican Museums
• Venice—Dress for a Venetian Carnival
• Madrid—Palacio de Cristal
• Turkey—Hagia Sophia, Grand Bazaar, whirling dervishes, Galata Tower, Dolmache Palace, buy a carpet and boncugu stone
• Witness the Aurora Borealis 
• Go to an Indian wedding
• See Cirque du Soleil 
   
• Do a Triathalon
• Go Deep-Sea Diving
• Swim with Sharks
• Hike the Grand Canyon
• Learn how to Surf
• Take up yoga
• Crossfit 5 year anniversary
• Skydive
   
• Make a difference in at least one person’s life
• Be involved in the Peace Corps
• start a charity/scholarship fund