25 Adventures – A Birthday Bucket List

*written July 3, 2020*

Welp. It is my 25th Birthday.

Birthdays are either one of two things – an unforgettable day with an exorbitant amount of anticipation leading up to it

or

a day that’s just a day. It marks a new chapters but not a lot of hub bub happens.

I hate planning a day for myself. I live for surprises and I am pretty sure my love language is through actions and words. (This girl don’t need no expensive gifts, just a planned, happy, little, moment…)

Anyways like many throughout the world, this year’s birthday has been thrown for a loop with the worldwide pandemic. My quarter life day of celebration will always be remembered thanks to a little virus that, unfortunately, means I will be most likely be spending at home without friends a family around. It is OK. But still a little sad.

So today I am going bask in the beauty. I will eat sushi and red velvet cake. I will not work. I will talk to family and friends. Then I will probably end my day eating more cake and watching the new Hamilfilm 🙂 While I wish I could be traveling somewhere or have all of my special people with me, it will still be a special day.

To top it all off I want to list 25 Bucketlist items for this next year of life.

1. Go on a solo trip – I know that’s a lot, especially now, but ya girl has that travel bug and cannot wait for the world to be safe again.
2. Travel to a new country – I missss international travel. This bucket list item will always be on every list that I create
3. Travel to Utah (see friends and family again)
4. Apply for Grad School – more on this later…..eeep
5. Get in to Grad School – extra eeeeeep
6. Pay off my Student Loans (all $12,000 that’s left)
7. Make $25 from my own business – I don’t know what this is yet. Is it this blog? Is it music? Something new that I cannot even comprehend?
8. Run a half marathon – I am on my way to a 5K…. a half marathon is doable right?
9. Lose 25 lbs
10. Touch my toes – I have not been able to do this since before puberty. This will change
11. Do the splits
12. Feel happy being alone – this one is cryptic, but loneliness seems to be a theme that is at the forefront of this new chapter. I want to change that.
13. Sing on a stage
14. Sing an opera aria and BE PROUD OF IT – believe or not, after years of undergrad training and performances, I have never felt that.
15. Arrange a song and have it performed
16. Go on a date
17. Cook more
18. Be more ethical in my purchases (secondhand clothes / clean beauty / locally made)
19. Read and write more
20. Spend one hour less on my phone each day
21. Use essential oils more consistently in my day
22. Go to therapy consistently – AKA find a therapist
23. Change my perspective of myself – it is currently very degrading and hyper critical. Not okay.
24. Depend on and trust myself
25. Love more freely

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Some things are specific, some are cryptic. Some are silly and some are deeep. But I believe that if I intend on spending the next 365 days of my life with these little goals in my head, they will all happen. I am so grateful for my little day. I am so grateful for my life and I hope to add more to it, be my best self and help others in the process. So here’s to the next chapter in Becca’s life.

And don’t forget : Black Lives Matter / Breonna Taylor was murdered / racism is real / vote / love is love / wear a mask / respect each other/ we can get through this together

Thanks for the Adventure, 25.