Day 894 - Day 164
Lifetime Dream # 46 of my list of 155: I will complete a list of 1,000 small things that I can do with Samantha to create precious memories, creating a stronger bond between us that will strengthen our love.
When my sister died, as one would expect… I learned a lot of things and made a lot of realizations. I like to believe that I have always appreciated life and what a gift it is. With the amount of friends and family that have died around me, I’d like to think that I appreciate life and how you can be here one day and gone the next. My sister’s death was not expected in the least…
I had a lifetime dream to own a yacht; I wanted to sail the oceans but really I thought it was a rather selfish and materialistic dream, so I decided to adopt things I learned from her death. I met my wife late in life, and I thought it would be fun to make up for lost time. So I made a list of 1,000 things that we could do as adults, that we would have experienced as kids, teens, young adults, or as the adults we are… to make up for lost time and to make the times we have a little more memorable.
Routines are terrible… it’s the new experiences that come across your path each day that really make life and time stand still. Like every relationship, we’ve had good and bad times. There are many things on the list (some simple, some pretty involved), but I hope we can complete the list in this lifetime. I don’t need getaways to some far off tropical island to enjoy life… I can do it sitting down to a new meal, or putting a puzzle together.
Pictured here was a Toy Story fest that we had on her birthday. I was able to see all of these movies in the theater with my daughter and these have always made a special bonding memory with one another. It was nice to be able to complete the series with my wife last summer; I think we were all tearing up at the end.
Day 894 - Day 164
Lifetime Dream # 46 of my list of 155: I will complete a list of 1,000 small things that I can do with Samantha to create precious memories, creating a stronger bond between us that will strengthen our love.
When my sister died, as one would expect… I learned a lot of things and made a lot of realizations. I like to believe that I have always appreciated life and what a gift it is. With the amount of friends and family that have died around me, I’d like to think that I appreciate life and how you can be here one day and gone the next. My sister’s death was not expected in the least…
I had a lifetime dream to own a yacht; I wanted to sail the oceans but really I thought it was a rather selfish and materialistic dream, so I decided to adopt things I learned from her death. I met my wife late in life, and I thought it would be fun to make up for lost time. So I made a list of 1,000 things that we could do as adults, that we would have experienced as kids, teens, young adults, or as the adults we are… to make up for lost time and to make the times we have a little more memorable.
Routines are terrible… it’s the new experiences that come across your path each day that really make life and time stand still. Like every relationship, we’ve had good and bad times. There are many things on the list (some simple, some pretty involved), but I hope we can complete the list in this lifetime. I don’t need getaways to some far off tropical island to enjoy life… I can do it sitting down to a new meal, or putting a puzzle together.
Pictured here was a Toy Story fest that we had on her birthday. I was able to see all of these movies in the theater with my daughter and these have always made a special bonding memory with one another. It was nice to be able to complete the series with my wife last summer; I think we were all tearing up at the end.