- Successfully run for two kilometres without stopping. Take up running on a regular basis.
- Travel to a foreign country.
- Try downhill skiing for the first time.
- Take a pottery class.
- Be accepted into a program of study and/or start said program of study.
- Find a volunteer job.
- Become involved at the Meeting House.
- Intentionally develop a more active social life.
- Join a book club.
- Find a new place with a room-mate.
- Practice the spiritual disciplines and develop the fruit of the Spirit.
- Befriend a friendless person.
- Be able to write "in a relationship" on Facebook, truthfully.
- Go down the escarpment stairs and up again more than once.
- Develop a daily prayer life, and foster a close relationship with Christ.
- Become a full-fledged optimist.
- Go on a road trip.
- Lose the belly.
- Learn how to bake lemon meringue pie and cook a whole chicken.
- Write in a journal every week.
- Master basic sewing tasks.
- Learn how to barbecue.
- Go on an overnight canoe trip.
- Successfully perform ten consecutive push-ups.
- Eat a lobster.
- Play a tennis game.
- Take up roller-blading.
- Write my one-hundredth blog post.
- Buy a digital camera and learn to use it.
- Make a valiant attempt to keep a clean and tidy living space at all times.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Thirty Things To Do Before I'm Thirty
Yesterday I entered my thirtieth year, and I celebrated my champagne birthday (I turned 29 on the twenty-ninth). After a day in St. Jacobs with my sister and her housemate, and before I turned in for the night, I spent some time pondering what I could write on my blog about my birthday or about the dreaded event to follow next year, when I will officially enter my thirties. Is turning thirty so bad? My theory is it doesn't have to be, provided you feel you have done everything in your twenties that you wanted to do. Some one who turns thirty, married with one kid and another on the way, established in a career, proud owner of their second home, may feel less panicked about this milestone than someone who is single, thinking about going back to school in order to get a career, and planning to move out of their parent's house. So I came up with the idea of writing a list of things I want to do in the next three hundred and sixty-four days, like a bucket list, except I am not planning on dying anytime soon. I don't foresee having two kids and a husband in that span of time, but there are some things that would be nice to do before I'm thirty.
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I'm not in your shoes, obviously, more the comparison person that you used.... but don't feel bad about 30. It's just a number, and you are not "old" in your thirties, like you think you'll be when you're 17. I would far rather be 30 than 17.
I love the list! It's a good idea, and think and would be incentive to try new things and push yourself to new limits. My advice, though - don't beat yourself up if you don't do them all! I know you....and I know myself, and lists can be a real tool or a mental hindrance.
Thanks for the reassurance Karen. Yeah I guess it is just a number. Still it feels old to still be doing what I'm doing, working at Connons and living at home. I too wouldn't want to be 17 again. I want to be moving forward in my life.
The list is definitely limit-pushing and perhaps overly ambitious. I'll take your advice and not get upset if I don't manage to accomplish them all. I might not take a pottery class, for example; I put that in for Rachel's sake who mentioned a number of times I should take one.
THE POTTERY CLASS STAYS.
I'll take it with you if I have to.
Rachel, you would take it with me? Well, if it's offered in the summer that would work. I will have to see when it is offered and where.
i was surfing blogs when i read this, i hope you can accomplish the list. I'm in my early 40's and i look back at my 30's with a whole new set of questions and wonder about the 50's. The one thing that i would say is best about my 30's that I didn't have in my 20's is a living relationship with Jesus, sounds like you found it, so of all your list i hope you find that quiet space for prayer.
Thanks for your comment Paul, and for the reminder about the importance of a relationship with Christ that is growing through daily prayer. I hope this year I will improve in that area, even if I don't manage to accomplish this whole list.
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