It's never too early for a bucket list.

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine told me he had made a bucket list. I was a little shocked and, naturally, thought that something was gravely wrong with him. My panic was settled when he assured me his health was 100% and that the list was just something he made to live his life by.

So, essentially, what he made was a bucket list based on no time limitations. What an awesome, awesome idea.

People today are so caught up in their busy, round-the-clock lives of work work work. When asked the question - 'what's the one thing you want to do before you die?' a lot of us have trouble answering it. The fact is, we should all know the answer. We should all know what we want out of life.

And I'm not talking about religion here. I'm talking about us here, as humans, living in this massive world. It is our world, and we have the gift of free will and a right to do what we want (I hope I'm not encouraging a mass-murder rampage here - please keep it safe).

My friend's bucket list comprised of the simple things in life. Taking a walk at the beach at night, skinny dipping at the beach at night and gazing at the stars at the beach at night. Well, okay, there was more than just the beach at night but I don't want to embarrass him.

Following in his example, I decided to make my own. I found a handy little Android app called The Bucket List which you can find at this link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metosphere.bucket&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tZXRvc3BoZXJlLmJ1Y2tldCJd

My bucket list ended up being slightly more extravagant than my friend's. It involved such things as:
1. Visit space
2. Visit space with aliens
3. Visit space with aliens and time travel

Well okay, the first one is true. Space travel is becoming a possibility in our modern world and, with the rate at which our technology is advancing, it may just take off in our lifetime. If I were to accomplish such a thing in my life, then I could truly say that I found meaning in my life and lived a happy life.

So, ultimately, the bucket list for the living is a simple yet deeply significant idea. It allows us to put in words what we really want to achieve out of life and to aim at ticking these things off and accomplishing them, one by one, while we can. It brings us that one step closer to making our dreams exist, and making them happen. And you are the only person who can do that - so I encourage you strongly to do so.

In other words, don't wait until you are literally kicking the bucket to make a bucket list.

So why not write up a list? It can only benefit you. Please feel free to share your number one idea with me. Or your craziest or something.

Thanks for reading, and I'm off to watch - you guessed it - The Bucket List.

-Dahlia