Less than a month from now, I will be twenty, no-longer-a-number-that-ends-with-teen, twenty. I will no longer be a teenager. I'm not sure if I should be excited, anxious, or apathetic. Each year I add on means new responsibilities, more options, and opportunities that are now open to me that weren't before.
I remember when I was young and turning 10 meant I could use a hairdryer all by myself. Turning 11 meant getting my ears pierced. Turning 12 meant I was in middle school. Turning 13 meant I was a teenager. 15 is when I got my driver's permit. 16 is when you can drive and in my case, I was now aloud to date! Sure I didn't date but I could if I wanted to (and had low standards). 18 aloud me to be a legal adult and the right to vote. But now I'm going to be 20 and no longer in the limbo of teen-dom and adulthood.
Looking back we have things we regret. We regret what we did, what we didn't, and wish we did things differently. Sure, I can chalk some of those regrets to the fact that my brain was going through some major construction that comes along with adolescence but I'm coming out of the period. I can't use that excuse forever. So I made a list and that led to more lists and finally I came up with an not so original idea: Make a bucket list. But not any bucket list. Multiple bucket lists with a time limit and a blog to document my journey into adulthood and beyond.
Rules of the Bucket List(s)
- Each list will be active for a period of five years in which I must complete it.
- Each list will be activated on my birthday (August 7th) and will end 5 years later on my birthday or if I die before hand (something I'm not expecting for some time).
- I can edit a list until the date when it becomes activated.
- After a list is activated, I can only add to it.
- Items on an active list can be modified only if there is several good reasons (i.e. injury, weather, and impossible to do)or one really great reason (i.e. in a coma) as to why it must be modified. Then I will present the reasons to a group of my peers (3 or more) and they will make the decision if the item should be modified and how it should be modified. They also have the power to remove the item from the list if the reason allows so (i.e. still in a coma and my odds are not looking so good).
- After an item is completed, it will be marked off of the list and a blog post must be made about it. The blog post must have pictures to prove I did it, what happened, and my thoughts on it.
The rules are subject to change until August 7, 2012 when the first list is activated. After said date, the rules can be added to or modified if I bring an issue of change to a group of my peers and they approve. A group of my peers must be made up of an odd group and contain at least one friend and one family member.
