Bucket List Blog

      Recently, we started reading Tuesdays With Morrie. The titular character seems to really handle his impending death with grace, and he's really frank about the whole thing. He also—and this is the important part— doesn't take what remains of his life and the beginning of his death for granted. He attempts to use what he's got left to better others. And on a side note, most people with ALS do something like that, regardless of their fictional status. They use the time they have left to leave a mark on people, and then bow out with whatever grace they have left. Morrie certainly seems to be planning on that. He also, it seems, is trying to fulfill his bucket list, or at least one item on it. In honor of this goal, and because that's the assignment, I've composed a bucket list of my own. And yes, "bucket list" comes from the expression "to kick the bucket."

My Bucket List 

• Make a video game
• Attend a full scale Nerf war/beyblade tournament/other large congregation of my fellow hobbyists
• Create something that changes lives
• Graduate high school
• Graduate college
• Graduate anything else I need to graduate from
• Beat my disability (well, as much as I can)
• Continually update my list

      Death is kind of like a distant due date on an assignment. You ignore it until it's staring you in the face, and then you throw yourself at it until the due date. Some people, however, focus on the due date the entire time and manage to get done every part before the due date's even remotely close. I won't say which way is the best way to live (that's not my place), but I will leave you with this so you can ponder it...which is kind of like what Morrie would do, if you think about it.