1. Creating my own successful video game, doesn’t need to be a smash hit, just recognized by at least a small niche group of people
2. Moving away from my home town of Texarkana
3. Make a career out of 3D modeling
4. Learn how to cook good
5. Learn how to play the piano
6. Get my own Keytar and learn how to play it
7. Start a Youtube Channel (doesn’t even have to be famous, just to have an outlet)
8. Get a home at Shreveport
9. Produce my own short film
10. Learn how to paint
For my bucket list, I don’t really have anything short-term because I see my life moving
too quickly to focus on the “Now.” In just 2 years I’ll graduate. In just 2 ½ years, I’ll be working
what I hope to be a fairly stable job. In about 3-5 years, I hope to be married, and all of these
hopefully combine to my happiness.
Getting good grades is something I always strived for in high school. I tried making as
high of grades as I possibly could to get into college, but now that I’m here, I realized that I still want to make good grades. Not just because of something like honors college, but because I
want to truly live to the best of my abilities, and doing that for me means to get A’s and B’s in
college.
My future job is something I fantasize a lot about. I hope to be making at least $70,000
when leaving college, and hopefully working my way up to the $100,000+ range. Making money
to me means that I have shown I can succeed in something and I put in a tremendous amount
of work, corresponding to my pay. I want to show myself I can do it, and the best measurement I can personally make for myself is the compensation I can get for the work I put in.
Marriage has always been something I’ve looked forward to. I want the love of my life to
show up one day dressed in all white and have that magical moment in front of our families. I
plan to wait until I am in a stable economic situation before doing it, but either way it pushes me to want to be great. Being great for yourself is one thing, but when you’re doing it for someone
else makes a major difference in my opinion.
Being happy is a hard thing to put on my bucket list because it’s not just a basic
happiness. I have happiness every day, but once my life has been put into motion, I have a
high-paying job, I have a wife, hopefully a kid, and I see myself as truly “Making it”, then I think I can finally say I am content and I will not just have momentary happiness, but I will be truly
happy.
At some point in my life, I want to go to graduate school. I’ve considered doing it right
after my undergraduate. I’ve also considered doing it as soon as I get my first job. But right now, I am most likely going to do it when I have been working for around 3 years. At that point,
adding a masters degree seems the most beneficial, and it doesn’t cut into my time as a new starter to the industry.
Overall, these are my goals. Going skydiving or having a fridge full of gatorade don’t
really appeal to me, but the constant thoughts on how to become the best me I can be for both
myself and my future family stand firm as the main, and only, things I can really say speak to me for a bucket list.
I have many things on my forever-growing bucket list, but here are some main ones:
Travel-
I want to continue to travel and visit as many places as possible. My main areas of interest are
Greece, Japan, Scotland, Egypt and Antarctica. However, I do not only want to see the world,
but leave a positive impact everywhere I go, whether this is through my art, service work or
connecting with the people living there.
Impact:
As I mentioned before, I want to leave a large positive mark before I pass on. I would be
content with my life knowing I made people's lives easier and happier, including my own. It
starts with small actions, such as giving a dollar or holding the door, but the goal is for it to
transform into larger ones, such as curing a disease or improving the realities of equality. I want to
be known and remembered for something good.
Feeling content/happy:
This last one may seem more like an ideology than a bucket list item, but for me it is something
to chase after and accomplish. True happiness comes with being content no matter your
circumstances. I aspire to get to this point, along with completing my dreams and goals. I will be
satisfied when they are completed, which is why my final bucket list item is to complete a bucket
list.
Graduate from SAU
● Get accepted into a Doctorate program
● Graduate with a Ph.D. in Chemistry
● Visit Europe
● Visit Japan
● Travel Elsewhere
● Move out of the US
● Build a Happy Family
● Go to a Pop Culture Convention
When many people think of bucket lists, they think of many extravagant activities or tasks that they want to complete before they die. When trying to craft my bucket-list, I find that I have many small tasks or goals, but I spend most of my time thinking about large goals and accomplishments that I was to achieve. Many people might see my goals as small or non-extravagant but to someone who grew up sheltered or under the circumstances that I did, these are very big things.
For starters, an item on my bucket-list is to graduate college, and I know that it may seem normal but I am a first generation college student. An even larger goal that I have is to obtain financially stability and be able to live comfortably; Many smaller goals go into that one goal such as obtaining a degree and finding a great job. Like many I want to get married and have children before I die, and give them everything in life that I did not have growing up.
I also have some activities that I would like to take part in before I die. I am scared of heights and terrified of getting on a plane, but eventually I want to get over my fear and try it. I would also like to make an appearance and debate about politics on CNN, MSNBC, or FOX. There are many skills that I would like to obtain before I die including learning how to skate, driving a stick-shift truck, becoming fluent in Spanish, and learning more about stocks.
Speak in Spanish (better) without second-guessing myself with pronunciation. I can read and understand what’s being said in writing and when spoken, but I’d love to be able to have an ongoing conversation in Spanish without fearing mispronunciation and making many mistakes.
Go on a Hawaii vacation with some friends. This seems like lots of fun.
I want to go to The Neighbourhood or a Tyler, the Creator concert. I’ve already been to a Harry Styles concert about a year ago– it was an unforgettable experience, I definitely want to go to more shows and get better seats. Now that I can have a job on campus and save money, I want to aim for the front row of my top 2 favorite artists.
Own a Camaro. Ever since I was like, 8, I’ve been in love with them. The Transformers movies are actually what made me love the car, to be honest. In the future, I plan to own one and have it custom-wrapped, and maybe have the transformers emblem in the same spot Bumblebee had his, just for the nostalgia.
Creating a bucket list is quite a difficult task for one such as myself. As someone who dislikes thinking about getting old, losing memory, eventually death, a bucket list seems like the exact thing to trigger anxiety for the next three weeks. Alas, I have to so I can pass, so I am going to center my list around things I can do long before I age out of the ability.
To begin, I would like to complete my family tree on both sides. For the Reynolds side, this is easy, as the records are very well kept. My mother’s side, however, is obscure and confusing. I think it’s important to comprehend where you originate from.
The second item on my list is to go sky diving. I am basically scared of everything, yet heights don’t scare me.
Third up on the list is to hold an Atlas moth. This one seems very out of place, I know, but to understand it you must understand me. I adore moths (favorite animal genus) and holding big moths is a dream of mine. I would have been an entomologist if it had paid more.
My fourth item is to go mining. Another strange one, but once again it relates heavily to a strange obsession of mine. I love rocks. Not in the ‘crystal energies’ type of way, but the geology type of way. It amazes me how the Earth can just create these gorgeous structures.
The final item on my list is quite possibly the most important one, but I would like to become an aunt. I don’t wish to have any kids of my own (if I change my mind I’d adopt instead), but I would love to spoil one of my sisters’ kids as the “cool aunt with the pool.”
