A realization and a bucketlist..

As I was playing on Pinterest this morning, I kept thinking of the things that I wanted to do while I'm here in Michigan. The list got longer and longer. Then I thought what about the things that I would do if I had no limits. My Bucket list was born. I will probably be adding things to it for a long time. But, I just want everyone to know how important it is for me to live my life. I want to have bad days and good days and laugh and cry. I want to make a difference in someone's life. I believe that through my writing I am doing such a thing. I came across this picture....

It is of a section of a house in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. An artist turned this house into an amazing interactive public art project. People from near and far come to write on this "chalk board" house. They write what they want to do before they die. Some of them are so touching and some are heartbreaking. In the past month there have been many deaths around me. I have not been very close to the people that have passed on, but I can say that they left an impact in my life, even if it be small, it has made me stop and think about what IS IMPORTANT. Did those people get to do the things that they had planned to do before they passed? Some probably... others no. I am challenging myself to start living and loving more and challenge all of you who read this to choose one thing... be it great or small and go out and do it! We have so many consequences in life and sometimes that is all we think about. What is this going to do if I do this? Sometimes we need to take a leap of faith  and go do something we love or something that we haven't done before. Life is short... so live it to the fullest!