Bucket List - Catholic Herald

So, I would have finished the Insanity workout if I hadn’t sprained my ankle. As it was, Shaun T. kept telling me to breathe through the pain and keep going with the exercises, but I guess my pain was a little too intense for me. I only got through the first week before I had to quite completely, before I did some serious damage (Future note: try not to fast-forward through that part about visiting a doctor before starting any exercise plan, like I did).

So, in about three months, I will be running around crazily as I frantically try to finish the rest of the wedding tasks, knowing that only two days remain before my beloved and I are joined as one. To tell you the truth, it still has yet to hit me that this is the last year I’ll be a single girl. While of course I’ll miss that part of my life, I know that there is much more out there for me in the future.

One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is making a “bucket list,” or a list of things to accomplish in life before I die. When I was younger, I was always making a list of things I wanted in life: To graduate high school, college, leave the country for a good amount of time, take a road trip, etc. Now that I’ve crossed most of them off my list, I think I need something else to accomplish. Such as:

Hold on to Matt while he drives a Vespa in Italy
Run a 5K (believe me, three miles would be a huge accomplishment)
Have 6-pack abs
Celebrate Oktoberfest in Germany
Learn to salsa dance (this is tentative)
Have lots of happy, healthy babies
Own a home in a place where I want to spend all my time in the backyard
Take Matt to Table Mountain and show him my favorite place to eat a packed lunch
Become an expert at rock climbing

While many of these entries seem pretty far-fetched, I can’t help but look back to all the things I have accomplished in my life so far. Honestly, who would have thought that I would one day be looking out at Cape Point, the most south-western point of the African continent? (See me in green below)