Not a Bucket List

I was browsing through an old journal and came across a bucket list I made this summer. Since then, I have grown to not really be a fan of buckets lists, as they might create a false measuring stick to measure your life's joy or 'success.' Cynicalness aside, it is still fun to dream about places you want to go, mountains you want to climb, women you want to kiss, etc.

That being said, here is my bucket list from this summer. I am not sure if if made a bucket list today that ALL of the same things would be on it or not. Nevertheless, in no particular order:

Climb Mt. Everest, K2, Mt. Mckinley,

Go to Yosemite, Sequoia, Mammoth, Muir Forest,

Hike All of the A.T., Continental Divide Trail, Pacific Coast Trail

Go To Vancouver

Hike the Pacific Coast Trail

Through hike the smokies

Write a book

Write a book on Christian Paradoxes

Get a Phd in Conflict Transformation (write the dissertation on Jesus, Peace, and Conflict)

Go Skydiving

Own a Jeep

Write Poetry for the rest of my life

Marry the most beautiful women in the world

Take my children hiking

Hike in Yellowstone

Live in Boise, Idaho

See a moose and a mountain lion in the wild

Go to Israel

Learn Hebrew

Be the first half Jewish president

Go to New Zealand

Read Lord of the Rings

Read my children Narnia Chronicles

Tell the women I marry she is the most beautiful women in the world every day of my life.

If I have a daughter, tell her to never settle, and be an example to her of how a man ought to love her.

Be in a bar confrontation and break the bottle over the edge of the bar and defend myself with the remaining jagged half.

Bring down the corrupt evil capitalistic system in America

Live in a town where I can ride a horse to the grocery store and bank

Wrestle a bear

Be a college professor