WILL WORK FOR TOYS

If you haven't seen the movie, "The Bucket List", it's truly an inspiring movie. I wasn't too excited about seeing it when it was in the theaters. Mostly because if I had a choice to watch Adam Rodriguez ala CSI Miami for an hour versus crusty Jack Nicolson and Morgan Freeman for two hours, I'd pick CSI Miami. But thanks to Netflix, you don't have to compromise. It came last week and it was so fun.

What I took away from the movie is affirmation of the way I desire to live my life- if I want to know how something works, how to do something, or just get the idea, "hmm I wonder what that's like", I do it. I'm not driven by career or accumulating wealth. I'm driven by curiosity. I really only work to pay for my toys and adventures. I have closets literally and figuratively full of stuff I've tried. If I liked it, it stayed around. If I didn't, eh whatever, now I know. As a matter of fact, in my line of vision is my cello (which I still love, I just don't have the patience for) leaning in the corner, which is next to my bread maker (which was pretty useful actually), and out the window are my gardening supplies (which was pretty fun until the grubs ate my corn stalks) on the balcony. But hey, now I know. And yeah, you don't want to come over. It's pretty junky around here! LOL!

I've recently learned to love that about myself rather than be disappointed in how quickly I get bored. Some might call it flaky. I just call it me. At the end of my life, I want to say I satisfied my curiosity.

So The Bucket List inspired me to keep it up. Instead of waiting until you're about to die to realize you're alive, live now! Life is for the living.