Awaken My Heart To Life: Yeah, I've done that

When I was 16 I watched A Walk To Remember and, wanting to be just like Jamie Sullivan, I wrote my first bucket list (with several items stolen right from the movie). Looking back it's funny to see how some of the simple ones didn't get accomplished and some of the crazy ones did. Some of the things I thought were really important at the time, I now couldn't care less about. How many items were tweaked in a way that I found met the criteria, and how many were tweaked and then reverted back to the original.

For your perusing pleasure:

~~See Niagra Falls...from Canada~~

~~Strikethrough~~ = done

Bold = still on my current to-do list

Fall in love

Two for one: ~~Learn to dance~~ / ~~Be in a play~~

Learn to fly
~~Witness a miracle~~
~~Go stargazing~~
Visit Israel
Tour Europe
Learn another language fluently
Teach an old dog new tricks
Coach a team
~~Save a life~~
Write a bestseller
Volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center
Read all the American classics

I've run two halves, does that count?

~~Learn to rock climb~~
Dive off the high dive
~~Try calimari~~
~~Befriend someone I don't like~~
Grow roses
Start a fire without matches
Learn self defense
~~Read the entire Bible~~
Publish something
Learn to surf
See the sun set over the Grand Canyon
Smuggle Bibles into China
Join the March for Life in DC
~~Jump off a cliff into a lake~~
~~Take medical classes~~

~~Work/volunteer at the Children's Hospital~~

Goskydiving
Swim with dolphins
Run a marathon
Run in the olympic torch relay
Go hang-gliding
Have children
Travel to the top of the Statue of Liberty
Make something on a pottery wheel
Develop my own photos
~~Donate my hair to locks of love~~
~~Donate blood~~
~~Help at a homeless shelter~~
Teach an adult to read
Have a full fledged pillow fight

~~See a Broadway show~~

Build a snow fort
Have a real picnic by a lake
~~Learn to shoot a gun~~
Lead someone to Christ
Run through a field of flowers
~~Go to college~~
~~See an opera~~
~~Go on a safari~~
Go on a road trip across the US
Wish on a shooting star
Go Scuba diving and see colorful fish
Solve a mystery
Catch butterflies
Join the USAF
Witness to a Mormon/Jehovah's Witness
Learn to play the drums or bass
~~Direct a skit/play~~
Work for Disney
Learn all the words to "It's the End of the World as We Know It"

~~Catch butterflies~~
~~Learn a new alphabet~~
Send a message in a bottle
Get my nose pierced
Get my bellybutton pierced
~~Create a secret recipe~~
~~Dye my hair blue or pink~~
Learn Chinese (note to past me: aka Mandarin....)
~~Help build a school in a third world country~~
~~See my name on the big screen~~

~~Go to Harry Potter World~~

And now the newest:

Study yoga in an ashram in India
Get my yoga teaching certs
Bike through Amsterdam
Eat “special” brownies
Oktoberfest in Germany
Wear a dirndl
Sleep in an ice hotel in Scandinavia
See the northern lights
Go Parasailing
Go Bungy jumping

~~Go camping for real~~
Go Scuba diving, preferably in the Green Lake
Go Surfing
Get a picture of me standing on a surfboard...on the water
Learn a martial art (I'm thinking Krav Maga)
Drive on the autobahn
Live in another country. Like, have an address and a job
See every country in Europe (come on, there’s less than 40)

~~Learn to French Braid~~
Be an extra in a real movie
Work at an animal rescue, p
referably saving turtles
Get a picture with The Doctor. (And by that I mean Ten. As in David Tennant.)
Meet someone famous and not blow it
Work in a bar
Get a tattoo. Or several.
Buy custom jeans
Cut my hair pixie short
Visit all 50 States

~~Make the perfect omelette~~