The Reverse Bucket List

I had this plan.  I even wrote it down.  You know what I am talking about -- a Summer bucket list.  It went something like this:

• ride a roller coaster again after a long time
• lay out on the grass and watch the stars on a warm evening
• see the big trees
• go to the county fair
• and so on...

You want to know a secret?  I didn't check a single thing off that list.  

You know, I was just too busy being in out of state weddings and conventions and doing what needed to be done that I just didn't have time.  And I almost let that get me down.  

But then I came up with the reverse-bucket list.  Instead of making a list of things I wanted to do (and didn't get to), I am making a list of things I got to do, whether they were planned or not.  And this list looks much better --

• ate Tex-Mex in Houston
• slept in a cabin with good friends in the Rockies
• drove through the Napa Valley at midnight with the music turned up and the full moon shining in through the open sun roof
• enjoyed Cirque du Soleil KA on the Strip in Vegas
• visited with my brother, finally home from Afghanistan
• sled down a sand dune -- or attempted to, at least ;)
• spent a day on the lake with my man, some friends, and a wakeboard
• ate deep fried pickles at the Rattlesnake Saloon, which is a restaurant in a cave in Alabama
• sang along with Committed in concert
• played cards in the park on a sunny afternoon
• caught up with good friends over breakfast, and left feeling so incredibly blessed
• read a book on my balcony at The Gaylord Opryland (and enjoyed all its glory) in Nashville
• touched the water pump where Helen Keller first learned that words have meaning
• walked along the Ventura coast with my favorite person in the world -- my husband

You know what I am thinking?  This whole reverse list is better than the original. 

Here's to living a life that worth reflecting upon and finding it to be beautiful just the way it is!

(A 'Wednesday Files' Post)