Bucket List

I hope everyone is having a great Wednesday! During a slightly boring constitutional law class today (hey, it happens), I got inspired to start revising my life goals list/ bucket list.

Here are a few highlights from my list, at least ones I'm willing to share! I hope they might prove to be inspirational for somebody else:

• Graduate summa cum laude from law school and pass the bar exam on my first try
• Participate in or coordinate a research project or lecture series on issues of neuroscience and the law
• Write and publish a bestselling book
• Become a certified Spanish interpreter for civil court proceedings
• Be completely debt-free by December 31, 2016 (yes, that includes student loan debt--this is 2 1/2 years after I will graduate from law school)
• Buy my own home and write a check at the closing to pay for the entire thing (no loans, no mortgage, no debt)
• Eventually, get to a point where I live on 10% of my income and give away the other 90%
• Visit every state in the US
• Go to Italy, South Korea, and the Holy Land
• Watch the sun rise over the Grand Canyon
• Read the New Testament in the original Greek
• Learn how to play the violin
• Read at least 100 "classic" or "award-winning" books
• Learn how to speak Korean
• Run a half-marathon
• Go snowboarding
• Complete the Tough Mudder race
• Bench press my body weight
• Ride a roller coaster
• See a play on Broadway
• Read the Bible through every year for the rest of my life
• Do something incredibly heroic and selfless for someone who could never repay me (like donating my bone marrow, etc.)
• Get a standing ovation

Even though there are a LOT more goals on the list left to be completed than ones I've already achieved, here are some goals on the list I've been able to check off:

• Graduate from Washington and Lee University with honors
• Spend a day exploring ancient Corinth
• Sponsor children through World Vision
• Study abroad in Costa Rica
• Assist in research for a Bible commentary
• Learn how to read ancient Greek
• Go to the midnight showing of a movie
• Drive a horse and buggy in Amish country
• Go surfing
• Spend a night outside under the stars

. . . . What goals are on your bucket list?
And here's a song that has really been speaking to me lately . . . "Always Enough" by Casting Crowns.