My Bucket List { First Draft }

I’ve become a big fan of Celestine Chua‘s blog. In a recent post she made she discussed benefits you can add to you life by creating a bucket list containing at least 101 things. For those that might not know, a bucket list is a list of things that you want to accomplish before you kick the bucket(die).

It’s been no secret to those close to me that I’ve been feeling somewhat lethargic and unmotivated regarding my life lately. Between being a husband, father, and a home owner I’ve certainly been busy, and being a father and husband are two of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had that isn’t all that I want to get out of life. Yes I am a husband. Yes I am a father. But I am also a crated being and an individual person. I say this carefully as not to be misunderstood: My family is a massive part of my life, but they do not make up my life completely. Creating this list is a step while I’m younger and have the time to ensure I take as much out of life as I can. I’m a far cry from 101 items, and some of these I’ve already done. I’ll keep tweaking as I come up with new things.

1. Find God. Finding God involves finding him not as how I see him to exists, but how he knows Himself to be. This will take more than my lifetime but is no less an attainable goal.

2. Start A Family. This involves actually being a husband and a father, not merely just living in the same space with the person I’ve chosen to marry and spawning. This goal will also take more than my lifetime to accomplish.

3. Be in love, not as people perceive love, but knowing love as love is.

4. Shake the hands of a personal hero. Look them in the eye and tell them why they mean so much to you.

5. Take in the beauty of nature. For me this includes taking time to:

1. watch the sun set
2. watch the sun rise
3. watch the snow fall
4. watch the rain fall
5. enjoy standing in the rain
6. gaze at the stars

6. Write a story.

7. Find a job that is personally challenging and sparks passion.

8. Turn a hobby into enough of a money maker where it has the ability to finance itself.

9. Read the complete works of C.S. Lewis.
Poems:

1. Spirits in Bondage (1919)
2. Dymer (1926)
3. Narrative Poems (1969)

Fiction:

1. The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933)
2. The Screwtape Letters (1942)
3. The Great Divorce (1945)
4. Till We Have Faces (1956)
5. Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1961)
6. Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
7. Boxen (1985)

Space Trilogy:

1. Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
2. Perelandra (1943)
3. That Hideous Strength (1946)
4. The Dark Tower (manuscript) (1977)

The Chronicles of Narnia:

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
2. Prince Caspian (1951)
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
4. The Silver Chair (1953)
5. The Horse and His Boy (1954)
6. The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
7. The Last Battle (1956)

Non-Fiction:

1. The Allegory of Love (1936)
2. Rehabilitations and other essays (1939)
3. The Personal Heresy (1939)
4. The Problem of Pain (1940)
5. A Preface to Paradise Lost
6. The Abolition of Man (1943)
7. Beyond Personality (1944)
8. Miracles (1947)
9. Arthurian Torso (1948)
10. Mere Christianity
11. English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama (1954)
12. Major British Writers, Vol I (1954)
13. De Descriptione Temporum. An Inaugural Lecture (1955)
14. Surprised by Joy (1955)
15. Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
16. The Four Loves (1960)
17. Studies in Words (1960)
18. An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
19. A Grief Observed (1961)
20. They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962)
21. Selections from Layamon’s Brut (1963)
22. The Discarded Image (1964)
23. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966)
24. Of Other Worlds (1966)
25. Spenser’s Images of Life (1967)
26. Letters to an American Lady (1967)
27. Christian Reflections (1967)
28. Selected Literary Essays (1969)
29. God in the Dock (2 volumes) (1970-1971)
30. The Business Of Heaven (1984)
31. Present Concerns (1986)
32. All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)

10. Develop self control.

11. Volunteer and stay active in a children’s program.

12. Find someone to mentor you.

13. Find someone to mentor.