The second best thing about teaching is vacation. A whole summer off. To avoid a sedentary lifestyle of book reading and movie watching (although this will be happening), I have come up with a summer bucket list to keep me motivated and using my summer. And when I say use it I mean filling it to the brim with adventures.
The school year was great but I found myself stuck in a rut. An enjoyable rut, but a rut none the less. I found myself doing the same old same old every day. Worrying about the same things and focusing on the same problems. Life has come to a point where my friends and I don't spend much time enjoying life. Most of our time is spent talking about each other and defining each of our twisted relationships. It is getting old. It is starting to feel like a really bad soap opera. The kind where people are left to their own idle brains and they start to think. Thinking can be good. Thinking in my world is most often bad. Brains start to over think. Simple, innocent situations become complicated and exaggerated. Friendships become ruined, we walk on eggshells all the time. This is NO way to live life. It took this simple reminder from my planner to snap my brain into place:
Such a simple idea right? Why am I so focused on what happened last week or even yesterday? Today is a new day. A new day to try again to be better. A new day to forget my mistakes. A new day to become more like Christ. I can think of no better way to make each new day count than by filling it with adventure. Thus the SUMMER BUCKET LIST was born!
Some things have already been completed, like going to an IMAGINE DRAGONS concert (best night of my life, ever). Some things are already in the plans like Nauvoo with my YSA ward.
The best things are going to be the simple ones, like launching rockets....
...and making a music video.
I have a page to complete. I know I can do it! But I don't want to do it alone. I want my friends and family to do it with me.
WHO IS IN??
