My Bucket List

I just got back from a two week stay at Camp Quest of Minnesota.  During that time, I wrote a bucket list of personal growth and development.  What I came up with was this:

1) Be more trusting

2) Make a positive impact in some one's life

3) Write more

4) Be happy

All of these are going to be difficult, but if I can follow through with all of them, it will result in #4 of my list.  I've grown painfully aware that life is short and I'm not going to be around forever.  By making a positive impact in some one's life, and by writing more, I'm hopeful that that part of me will stick around, long after I have died, an atheist's version of the after life.  I started my bucket list that night by writing of the simplicity of before my life as it is now.

Simplicity

Sometimes it is hard to remember

The times I felt a prayer

The nights I spoke with god

Just to have someone to talk to

When the sky was more than the sky

When hope came in the form

Of simple coincidences

When the stars couldn't be beautiful

For the sake of being beautiful

And happiness

Was the product of

Beautiful naivety.