20's Bucket List

Hi! Firstly I apologise for not posting this yesterday as planned... being my first proper day back at uni with lectures and planning etc etc. I went to write my post yesterday evening and just couldn't function!
I didn't want to rush the post and make it awful and also how could I write on a blog about happiness if I was going to be miserable writing the post?! Seems a bit contradicting doesn't it. So now I'm in the right frame of mind and fueled on coffee I'm ready to do this!!! 

Secondly here is brief outline of what I got up to on my birthday on Saturday... 

So my beautiful family came to see me Saturday morning failing to make it a surprise - despite my mum trying her best to keep it a surprise I know her old tricks. I didn't get to see my sister and niece but I received the cutest card full of lipstick kisses from my beautiful niece, that had already made my day. 

Then in the evening me and Tim went for dinner in London - Wetherspoons cocktails are lethal btw. After that we went off to the theatre... Tim - aka the best boyfriend there could ever be - got me tickets to see Wicked in London! I had been waiting to see this show since I was 11 years old when it first came to the West End. Being the trooper that he is, he sat and watched it with me trying his best to match my 11 year old mentality and enthusiasm! Such an amazing show I had the best day! 

And thank you to my friend Anne (hey there girl) for getting me a beautiful pair of Taylor Swift Keds!!! She knows me too well. 

Thank you to anyone who wished me a happy birthday I had an amazing 20th Birthday. 

So now I'm officially 20. Been 20 for 3 days. Your 20's are a time for adventure. They're the pinnacle of your existence - so they say... but the last 3 days have been no different to my life before Saturday. HOWEVER! I have thought long and hard about the things I want to do in my 20's. So I have a cliche 20's bucket list and yes there are lots of cliche things on this list but I guess I'm just a cliche kind of person! 

Side note on bucket lists: pretty much everyone has a bucket list of some sort. I see a bucket list as a list of things that I want to do/have done in my life that I am/would be really proud of. This means that they are a totally individual compilation! Bucket lists that are full of adventures e.g. swimming with sharks, sky diving, jumping of the Grand Canyon or something crazy like that is great for someone who LOVES the thrill and would gain experience from that. Similarly, someone who is maybe scared of adventure would be proud of overcoming their fear hence would perhaps have an adventure filled bucket list. And for someone who hates adventure - not scared of it, hates it - then an entirely different bucket list is probably more suited. The point is... make it yours! And be totally crazy and wild with it e.g. being Taylor Swift's BFF is on mine... Karlie Kloss move over. See? Very realistic.

Without further ado here is my 20's bucket list:

Travel

1. Visit Budapest. This looks like a beautiful city especially in the winter months!

2. Go to New York. Again. But for Christmas (obviously). This time there are so many non-cliche things I want to see, seeing as I did all of those last time. But the cliche things are great too and I'd definitely be doing them again!

3. Stay at the Igloo Hotel in Finland ...and maybe do some skiing whilst I'm there!!!

4. *TOTAL CLICHE ALERT* 2 weeks (maybe 4, maybe eternity) in Bora Bora. Just wow. Could you imagine how amazing and relaxing that would be!!!

5. Volunteer in Thailand. This is something I am actually hoping to do next summer for 3 weeks. The program I'm looking in to is a 3 week health promotion project with school children so an amazing opportunity and a chance to do something worthwhile with my time and money.

I could go on with Travel, I mean who doesn't want to travel the world?! But these places are ones I want to visit in my 20's while I'm young and able to really enjoy them for their beauty!

Doing things I'm scared of 

6. Go diving at the Great Barrier Reef. The ocean scars me. It is beautiful and I love swimming in the sea at the beach but the thought of going below it's surface, for a period of time, with an oxygen tank being your only way of surviving and sharks (?!?!?!?) scares the life out of me. The Great Barrier Reef looks so beautiful and it would be a shame to not see it because I'm scared of something that has a 0.00001% chance of occurring (not an official statistic FYI). 

7. Sky Dive. Who isn't scared of sky diving?! Even the thought of this makes me feel sick, but it's another one of those cliche things that you kinda have to do before you 'kick the bucket'. 

8. Register as a blood donor. And actually donate blood! I've been telling myself to do this for a while now. Truth is I am terrified of needles. I once smacked a doctor in the face for trying to inject me... my mum was a witness. In my defence I was only like 6 and it was really scary. I am much maturer, calmer and less aggressive. Anyway, I realise that my fear shouldn't come in the way of possibly savings someones life, it's selfish. And I'm pretty sure that laying in a hospital bed waiting for blood to save your life is much scarier than having a needle put in your arm to provide that life saving blood. 

9. Try new exotic/outgoing foods. "What? How can she be scared of that?". Ask my mum what I was like as a child, ask my boyfriend how I am now and you'll get the answer to that question. I am a fussy eater and the thought of trying new foods does quite literally make my pulse quicken and palms sweat. But I need to be able to try new foods if I want to travel and keeping a healthy balance diet is really important in your 20's - no more chocolate now I have an adult body (officially been an adult body for 2 years but the 'teen' on the end made me think differently). 

The possible stuff!

10. Have a successful blog! I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't have an end goal. My end goal is to have a blog that anyone and everyone can visit when they feel a little bit down or need some motivation. Even if it's just productivity motivation i.e. "I'm bored; oh she's made a bucket list of things she wants to do in her 20's; I'm gonna do that to pass some time!". 

11. Be fluent in a second language. 

12. Widen my literary interests! I love reading! And as much as I love the typical teen romantic novels, your 20's are about discovering new tastes and interests. So I've ordered a bunch of books - classics, fantasies, inspirational, autobiographic etc. and am determined to read more frequently and more broadly. 

The totally outrageous fantasies 

13. Be a wedding planner for a day. After watching 27 dresses I have dreamed of be a wedding planner.  I even have a wedding pinterest board and frequently spend my time adding new wedding themes to this board as if I am organising a real life wedding. I'm studying psychology so that's a bit far off but if my career in psychology doesn't work it this is 100% my back up choice. 

14. Be Taylor Swift's BFF. To be honest just meeting her would be my ultimate bucket list dream. Not even going to get into talking about Taylor Swift because I won't stop and you'll be here forever.  

15. Like Meryl Streep in 'Devil wears Prada' I want to be a bad-ass sassy magazine editor. This is definitely a fantasy because firstly, being honest, I like fashion but just don't have the eye for style like some do. Also, pretty sure my editorial skills are no match for Vogue. 

And finally... 

Have fun! Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a party person. I rarely go out clubbing and don't drink a lot (I've only been drunk once - the hangover was not nice) and some may think that makes me a bore, a prune, an old woman etc. but I am just not that person. I would much rather spend the money I earn on experiences that I'm actually going to remember. Besides I get claustrophobic so clubs aren't ideal :/. This fact has actually made it hard for me to have fun since I turned 18 because I always felt like the odd one out not going to parties as much, not drinking as much, turning down nights out. Especially being in first year at uni. It meant that I felt like I couldn't have fun because I wasn't partying. But now that I'm 20 and obviously all the more wiser with all this 20's wisdom (just kidding), I've realise that I'm just going to have to make my own fun and actually I was always having fun I just never wanted to admit it because it wasn't 'normal' fun. But my 20's are going to be all about me and the things that I like doing and that's the way I want it to be!  

This bucket list is a much shorter version of my actual bucket list for my 20's but I am not going to bore you all like I did with Friday's post! I hope you've enjoyed reading my bucket list and maybe it's inspired you to do your own! And for those of you also in your 20's I hope you've been inspired to live the next decade to the fullest!

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Paige xxx

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