“It goes without saying that life is short, so get some of these amazing experiences under your belt while you can.” My life’s bucket list. I write it here to motivate myself and other friends too – Live the life that you want to. Updated on 12 November, 2022.

1. ✓ Watch Meteor Showers
2. ✗Visit Lavender fields in France
3. ✓ Travel South America (Chile, Ecuador, Colombia) and Cuba
4. ✓ Horseback riding
5. ✓ Attend a concert in the US
6. ✓ Make a snowman
7. ✗ Go skiing
8. ✗ Know swimming (2020 target)
9. ✗ Get driving license (2020 target)
10. ✗ Know salsa and swing dance (2020 target)
11. ✓ 1/4 Communicate and read another language (Dutch)
12. ✗ Start a non profit organization
13. ✗ Run projects for students at Tay Nguyen University (2020 target)
14. half ✓ Do volunteer in the US, in a foreign country and in Vietnam
15. ✗ Do volunteer works with my future family
16. ✓ Be a donor
17. ✓ Fall in love
18. ✓ In a mature relationship
19. ✗ Get married to the one I love
20. ✗ Be a mother
21. ✗ Celebrate my 30th anniversary
22. ✗ Donate blood
23. ✗ Go to a floating lantern festival (Like in Tangled movie – I see the lightttt, so romantic!!!!)
24. 1/2 ✓ Run a 5K
25. ✓ Cook for the ones I love
26. ✓ Watch a Broadway Musical
27. ✗ Visit Italy
28. 1/4 ✓ Write travel diary about everywhere I go (only finish travel diaries in Myanmar, Ecuador, Chicago, Chile and Colombia)
29. ✗ Travel with my whole family to a foreign country
30. ✗ Publish a book
31. 1/4 ✓ Write things for gratitude/blog every day in 1 year
32. 1/4 ✓ Read 100 books
33. 1/8 ✓ Write reviews for 100 books
34. ✗ Write reviews for 100 movies
35. ✓ Backpack through Europe
36. ✗ Visit Morocco
37. ✗ Visit Egypt
38. ✗ Visit Israel
39. ✗ Have a paper published in a top journal
40. ✗ Become a professor
41. 1/4 ✓ Create my own house (designed my own studio)
42. ✓ Go scuba diving
43. ✗ Watch World Cup at the host country
44. ✓ Be a mentor for someone
45. 1/2 ✓ Work for an international economic development organization (like World Bank, UN, ADB)
46. ✓ Live in another country
47. ✗ Have my own garden
48. ✓ Work in another country
49. ✗ Have my own pet
50. ✓ Knit a scarf (Crochet 🥰)
51. ✗ Get a tattoo
52. 1/4 ✓ Play badminton 2 times/ week (on the way to do it, but not regularly)
53. ✓ Learn coding
54. ✗ Join a competition to present something
55. ✗ Get an internship/ a part-time job in the US
56. ✗ Watch safari in Africa
57. ✗ Watch northern lightening
58. ✓ Star gazing with the one I love
59. 1/4 ✓ Learn about stars/ constellation
60. ✓ Climb a mountain
61. ✗ Hiking at Everest
62. ✗ Do bungee/ parasailing
63. ✗ Get featured in the media for something I am proud of
64. ✓ Fold 1,000 origami cranes
65. ✗ Start a movement for a cause I believe in
66. ✗ Give free hugs to strangers
67. 1/2 ✓ Find my purpose/ vision in life and working towards it.
68. ✓ Study in the US
69. ✗ Open a coffee shop with succulents as decoration, sightseeing and shop where I can make cakes and sell.

Updated 22/11/12. I did not follow this bucket list to decide what I would do next. But somehow I accomplished more year by year. Was in a mature r/s, went backpack, knew myself, ran 5K, did crochet, etc. Life is – when I just live it. I know, I grow more. And Im grateful for it – for everything life took me too.