How About That Bucket List?

Its December again, the season of love and accountability. I like to think that by default, the later happens to us all. But we often get carried away by what we did or didn't do and even the merriment that accompanies the season.

The year ran fast for the busy bees. Successes recorded. Failures recorded, the subsequent event of life that happens to us all. Probably the year moved slowly. Things weren't so exciting. It took longer to come to an end finally. Of course, by this happen chance, a league of us has been moving through the year as though it's a trance. Oblivious of the happenings, just passing by.

                                               

There is but one thing that makes us the same, an expectation for the year in the least.

Expectations (maybe resolutions), no matter how hard we try to bypass them, are part of our lives. Some of us go with mental notations, written connotations, and even a bucket list of them.

                                                

Expectations for me are the most beautiful bits of Hope. Hope is the bedrock of living and all its essentials therein. So to expect is to hope for, believe for, and dare for. 

And it is okay if, you only got around hitting the gym in the ninth month. It's great if you had a milestone reached and even went over. It's okay if items on your bucket list are not ticked, and you want to cry. It's okay if you failed, for as long as you tried. Sometimes you won't learn until you've been stretched and broken down.

                                              

It is better for us to come to terms with the fact that the year is the year, only we pilot how it goes. And life happens, so our plans may not come out as sleek as we thought they would. As long as we try, it's never over.

So how about that bucket list? Have you really given up yet? But we still have time. Let's try again.