My Bucket List
Have you ever thought about dying? I mean have you ever thought about where you want to be when your time comes to leave this earth? I haven't thought about actually dying as much as what I want to accomplish/leave behind. I have prepared the way in case my children are left without me such as will, life insurance etc. But I haven't really spent much time thinking beyond the day to day lessons I want to teach them via example and expectation.
Tonight my husband and I watched the movie The Bucket List. I had seen it before, he had not but I love it. It has a moral to the story and though a somewhat sad ending is good for retrospection. The first things they began completing were purely about superficial satisfaction but then the further it goes something deeper happens.
If I were to make a bucket list today what would I put down? I mean there are the places I would like to visit, the things I would like to say I have done but beyond that what else?
A good friend of my mom's completed her student teaching in another country. How cool would that be to spend sometime in a classroom environment beyond what is known as traditional here. I think I would put on it something like that, teach in another country less privileged as here. I want to show that to my kids. I would put on my list to take my children on missionary trip to a place so different it effects them forever. I want to give them the life lesson no story can tell to hopefully carry on in their own life. This is the first thing that comes to mind.
Then at some point in the movie the main character realizes how he and his wife had changed and lost each other.I too think about this. I think man if there were no children would we still be together? When there are no children will we still know each other enough to be content with the stillness? I hardly imagine that I will ever be completely still,LOL. Of course, then there is one more thought. But shhhh, I haven't uttered this one out loud. Would adopting a child be a consideration then, or fostering one? There is an amazing woman whom I teach with once a month at church that does just that. She has troubled kids come and go through her home as they get adopted elsewhere. I am not sure I want the behavior children the same as her, but I can see myself helping another kind of child, older as in not under 5 or 6. But who knows?
I know I love my husband and enjoy the time we spend together. I know I want to affect those that I come in contact with tremendously. I want to touch lives in a way that helps them be who they need to be to do the same. I want to watch them grow, thrive and smile thankful for the opportunity God gave me. How exactly do you write that on a list? My dear husband said his list would be more of a semi rather than a bucket, it all couln't fit. That is so him to make a joke of it all. I foresee an excellent learning opportunity for us to attempt making a list together.
If you haven't ever watched this movie you really should check it out. If you have well, maybe then you should watch it again just to remind yourself how very short life really is, and that it isn't just about today. It is about who we are, what we stand for and what we will look like when we leave this place for the next and best journey ever.
Tonight my husband and I watched the movie The Bucket List. I had seen it before, he had not but I love it. It has a moral to the story and though a somewhat sad ending is good for retrospection. The first things they began completing were purely about superficial satisfaction but then the further it goes something deeper happens.
If I were to make a bucket list today what would I put down? I mean there are the places I would like to visit, the things I would like to say I have done but beyond that what else?
A good friend of my mom's completed her student teaching in another country. How cool would that be to spend sometime in a classroom environment beyond what is known as traditional here. I think I would put on it something like that, teach in another country less privileged as here. I want to show that to my kids. I would put on my list to take my children on missionary trip to a place so different it effects them forever. I want to give them the life lesson no story can tell to hopefully carry on in their own life. This is the first thing that comes to mind.
Then at some point in the movie the main character realizes how he and his wife had changed and lost each other.I too think about this. I think man if there were no children would we still be together? When there are no children will we still know each other enough to be content with the stillness? I hardly imagine that I will ever be completely still,LOL. Of course, then there is one more thought. But shhhh, I haven't uttered this one out loud. Would adopting a child be a consideration then, or fostering one? There is an amazing woman whom I teach with once a month at church that does just that. She has troubled kids come and go through her home as they get adopted elsewhere. I am not sure I want the behavior children the same as her, but I can see myself helping another kind of child, older as in not under 5 or 6. But who knows?
I know I love my husband and enjoy the time we spend together. I know I want to affect those that I come in contact with tremendously. I want to touch lives in a way that helps them be who they need to be to do the same. I want to watch them grow, thrive and smile thankful for the opportunity God gave me. How exactly do you write that on a list? My dear husband said his list would be more of a semi rather than a bucket, it all couln't fit. That is so him to make a joke of it all. I foresee an excellent learning opportunity for us to attempt making a list together.
If you haven't ever watched this movie you really should check it out. If you have well, maybe then you should watch it again just to remind yourself how very short life really is, and that it isn't just about today. It is about who we are, what we stand for and what we will look like when we leave this place for the next and best journey ever.
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