So its been a little while but you know, life gets busy. Just got to keep going on with life.
But I wanted to update my bucket list. So I figured I should make some time and do it up!
And while I'm here I'll give an update on my life. So it has been a busy semester, I have an extra class this semester so I have a lot of papers and assignments to keep up with. It's been an emotional semester too. During Thanksgiving weekend I was told that my mother has skin cancer. It is amazing how cancer affects so many people. But even though you see and hear about it all the time nothing prepares you for the moment your own mother sits you down and tells you she has cancer. It becomes so much more real, its different when it is close to home.
Dealing with that has challenged me a lot in my own personal beliefs and sticking to my faith. I believe in God, I also believe God can perform miracles, but when someone close to gets sick, life gets real. You can no longer just say you will trust God no matter what, now you really need to live it out. You have to make the decision, will life situations cause me to pull away from God and doubt his faithfulness OR will I draw closer to God and proclaim his faithfulness and goodness no matter what.
As a Christian I wish I could say it was easy for me to make the decision to trust God no matter what, but let me tell you. Life shakes you up. Life gets hard and decisions don't seem so clear cut when you're in the moment. But when it really came down to it, I love God and I KNOW that He is good NO MATTER what I face in life. And God NEVER promised life would be easy, but he did promise he would be with me through it all, and that I wouldn't have to go through life alone. So although it is hard at times, and of course there are moments of doubt I fully rely on God's faithfulness to keep me going, its the only way to live this life. His joy is my strength. It is no longer my ability to remain calm and at peace but his incredible power working in me.
So I guess all of this has left me thinking about how short life really is. When I think about the fact that I will never get this time back, and that I've lived 20.5 years and I can never redo them, or relive high school it blows my mind. And all the time I've wasted in these years, its just insane. The truth is you really do only live once (YOLO) and we need to take full advantage of it.
Be encouraged!
Infinite x's and o's
-A
Here's my updated list:
1.) Go Camping and Cook food over a fire
2.) Witness a Miracle
3.) Get Married
4.) Start my own Business/organization
5.) Get a stamp on my passport from every country
6.) Go paintballing
7.) Go to Times Square on New Years Eve and watch as the ball drops
8.) Fly a small plane
10.) Own a jeep
11.) Write on the before I die wall
12.) Bike the entire Niagara Escarpment
13.) Travel through a jungle on an elephant
14.) Go Surfing
15.) Kayak part of the Nile River
16.) Attend an Olympic event
17.) Learn how to Sail
18.) Go Longboarding in California
19.) Make My own Longboard (Summer 2012)
20.) Shake hands with someone who has truly changed a country
21.)Road trip to California
22.) Go see the super bowl or world cup of soccer live
23.) Have 1000 followers on Twitter
25.) Own a pair of Toms
26.) Own a pair of Christian Louboutin Shoes
27.) Crash a wedding
28.) Donate my hair
29.) Live/work in Toronto
30.) Longboard on the costal highway
31.) Teach someone to read
32.) Have a child
33.) Donate money and have my name on something, a college scholarship, a bench in the park, HOSPITAL WING ect.
34.) Speak at a youth convention
35.) Go Golfing
36.) Run a 5k race
37.)Plant a tree and carve my name in it
38.) Participate in a tough mudder
39.) Participate in the Color Run
40.) Go Sailing on the Mediterranean Sea.
41.) Receive an award
42.) Run through a giant farm sprinkler
43.) Tour India
44.) Visit Thailand
45.) Backpack Across Europe
44.) Visit Thailand
45.) Backpack Across Europe
