Saturday, March 14, 2009

do you have a bucket list?

i have a patient that recently went on her first airplane ride ever. she is in her early 70's. i was so excited to talk with her about it last week. i just think that it is so neat that she is trying something new late in life. she said that she enjoyed the feeling of taking off and "banking". she then fell asleep. i told her that it was the perfect flight!

her husband referred the experience to the movie "the bucket list". now the things on that movie were pretty extravagent, but i like the premise of the show. a couple years ago when i was not having the best phase of my life, i wrote down a few things that i would like to do. i won't list them all here...i took 2 different approaches to this. i have a lot of superficial things and then some personal goals. take a look at a few of them:

-climb mt. kilimanjaro (that was the initial plan for this summer....boo jeff!)
-sky diving (done with my dad and sister in Hawaii)
-run a marathon
-visit every state
-practice medicine abroad
-have a life-long friend
-become mayor of a small town
-do a triathlon (first last april)
- learn how to play poker....it is something everyone always talks about...
- learn another language

that is just a sampling...i have a pretty big list!

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