Diane Ackerman once said, “I don’t want
to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I
want to have lived the width of it as well.” A bucket list helps accomplish
“living the width” of life. Two specific goals that are on my bucket list are
to graduate nursing school and to travel to Bora Bora.
Graduating from nursing school and
becoming a neonatal nurse has been a goal of mine for years. I set this goal
for myself my freshman year of high school and since then it has been a major
part of my bucket list. My mom always pushed me to do my best and encouraged me
to reach my goal of working in the medical field. When she passed unexpectedly
in 2012, it pushed graduating from nursing school to the top of my bucket list.
If I accomplish nothing else on my bucket list, I will still be content with
myself because I know I will have made her proud, and will be living my dream
of helping others.
Traveling to Bora Bora is more of a desire
than a goal, but it’s still something I would love to do before I die. Laying
at the beach is one of my favorite things and spending a vacation on one of the
most beautiful islands in the world sounds pretty great to me. Also, I would
love to see all of the beautiful scenery Bora Bora has to offer.
While graduating nursing school is
my number one goal, I hope that I can experience both of these things in my
lifetime. When I look back on this essay in ten years, I hope I can say that I’ve
accomplished the two things that I’m dreaming of doing now and that I’m “living
the width” of my life.
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