MY BUCKET LIST or 51 Things To Do Before I Die

This is the bucket list that I’ve been meaning to create for years and years. I am happy I finally got made one and yet at the same time it made me realize just how much I have taught myself to settle into “being a loser” and “never amounting to anything”. When I was younger and in my senior year of high school I had one of these in my head. It is when I really started to take stock of my life and what I wanted to do with it. I am happy to say that I have been able to accomplish some items before making this official list. They happen to mostly be the most important to me, such as getting married, having children, to have at least one girl (I have actually been blessed with two), and buying my own home. I wish at this point in my life this list would have so much more crossed off of it but between substance abuse and depression, my priorities have very much stifled my yearning to want to and the belief that I could actually do any of this. I am 34 now, how many of these can I accomplish before I am 40?

1. To go to Disney Land/World

2. Take my family fishing in Alaska for salmon

3. To have a “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” weekend in Vegas 

4. To read the in entire library of Scriptures (including the apocryphal writings)

5. To serve as a Bishop

6. Go to Jerusalem and visit the holy sites.

7. Complete the Camino De Santiago  (The Way of St. James)

8. Complete the Shikoku in Japan

9. Heck, visit Japan as a whole

10. Try Fugu sushi (poisonous blow fish)

11. Conquer my depression

12. Get a helicopter license

13. Fly an F-16 (or just be a passenger)

14. Conquer my Trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder)

15. Meet and have a conversation with Dieter F. Uchtdorf

16. Teach either Seminary or Institute

17. Visit Great Britain

18. Be in the audience of a taping of Red Dwarf

19. Visit Ireland

20. Visit Venice Italy

21. Pay my debts off

22. Graduate College

23. Watch my kids get married in the Temple

24. Get into better health

25. Visit Masada

26. Learn Hebrew

27. Be the best father I can possibly be for my children

28. Buy an old church and renovate it into a community center for kids/families 

29. Build a survival bunker (even if the world never ends, it would be my special little place)

30. Learn the art of Bushido

31. Meet Mick Foley

32. Learn to swim

33. Learn how to be a professional wrestler and be in at least one match

34. Write a book and get it published

35. Write a children’s book and also get it published

36. Baptize my children

37. Go a whole year without fast food or eating out in general

38. Bench press 200 lbs.

39. Own a comic book store

40. Travel cross country, visiting all 50 states handing out a variety of free scriptures 

41. Teach my children how to ride a bike, make each child’s experience a memorable moment they will cherish (just like when my dad taught me how to ride a bike)

42. Cultivate the gift of the Holy Ghost better

43. Obtain better discernment in my life

44. Organize all aspects of my life better

45. Gain better self-discipline

46. Be more Christ like

47. Practice yoga regularly 

48. Practice meditation, prayer, and pondering more

49. Love more and experience life instead of just living it

50. Become a grandmaster in chess

Bonus:

51. Complete at least half the items on this list