The Bucket List

It has recently come to my attention that I need a bucket list.  In trying to begin an exercise constructing a timeline for my future, I felt overwhelmed and hopeless over how much plodding on I had to do, and basically just wanted to curl up and die.  Because being sad is really fucking exhausting, and the thought of another 50 years of it is...well, unthinkable.

So when P mentioned a bucket list, I decided this was a better plan - stuff I want to do without time pressure or drawn out commitment - a kind of timelessness which is my safety net, if you will.  So forthwith, and in no particular order:

1. Run a sub 3 hour marathon

2. Run a 50 mile race

3. Walk the Pennine Way

4. Have children

5. Visit Canada

6. Have sex on a mountain

7. Learn to ski

8. Play in a wind quintet

9. Learn the oboe 

10. Catch, cook and eat a fish

11. Visit Peru

13. Gallop on the beach

14. Grow a successful crop of carrots

15. Work in healthcare in some capacity

16. Publish some writing

17. Watch the stars from an observatory

18. See a seahorse in the wild

19. Hug a sheep

20. Swim in a lake

21. Ride in a One Day Event

...probably to be continued...