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I remember when I found out an MTV show called 'The Buried Life.' I loved it and it inspired me like nothing before.

Back in 2010, after watching their TV show obsessively, I made my own bucket list. To remind myself of how important this was to me, I even downloaded the theme song of their TV show and set it as my ringtone. I told my friends about it but, as you can imagine, not many 15-year-olds think about what they want to do before they die, so no one was so hyped about the bucket list idea. But I wasn't discouraged. And so, year after year, I was working towards accomplishing my goals and crossing things off my list.

I hope my video will inspire you to go after your dreams and to make your bucket list your priority.

 
 
 
 
 

And here’s my own Bucket List:

originally created in 2015 but I’ve been adding items to it ever since.
everything I’ve already done is in bold.

  • Live in a London apartment with a London Eye and Big Ben view

  • Live in a NYC apartment with a Central Park view

  • Live in a Paris apartment with an Eiffel Tower view

  • Live/own a house in Tuscany

  • Live/own a house in Southern France

  • Visit all world capital cities and bring home postcards

  • Have a study

  • Have a walk-in closet

  • Have a wall decorated with my postcards in my study

  • Have a job that I love, where I can speak English and travel

  • See the whole wide world

  • Live abroad

  • Attend the Academy Awards gala

  • Speak fluent French

  • Speak fluent Spanish

  • Speak fluent Italian

  • Speak fluent Portuguese

  • Spend a summer in the US

  • Take a Route 66 road trip

  • Attend a baseball game

  • Attend an international movie premiere

  • Go to Portugal (I know I want to visit every country in the world, but Portugal is one of the few European countries I’ve never been to but really want to visit)

  • Be in a movie

  • Be on TV

  • Be on the cover of an international magazine

  • Get high in the Netherlands

  • Ride a bike in Amsterdam

  • Read all the BBC 100 Books

  • Take a yellow cab in NYC

  • Take a black cab in London

  • Have a picnic in St James’ Park, London

  • Practice yoga in India

  • Attend a ball

  • Stay at a treehouse

  • See Hogwarts

  • See Taj Mahal

  • See the Great Wall of China

  • See Stonehenge

  • See Niagara Falls

  • See cliffs in Ireland

  • See fjords in Norway

  • See cherry blossom in Japan

  • Put my hand into the Mouth of Truth in Rome

  • Visit Santorini

  • Visit all 50 states in the US

  • Visit Hawaii

  • Visit Cinque Terre

  • Visit Retjons, Mimzan and Biscarosse

  • Visit Edinburgh and see The Elephant House Cafe

  • Visit 10 most beautiful libraries in the world

  • Take a trip around coffee shops, antique shops and bookstores in NYC

  • Roller skate in Venice Beach, LA

  • Relax in a hammock in Bali

  • Eat real local food around Asia

  • Eat a burrito and nachos in Mexico

  • Visit a chocolate factory

  • Be at a yacht party

  • Earn $1 million a year

  • Earn the first $1 million before I turn 30

  • Run a half marathon

  • Run a marathon

  • Take part in a cooking workshop

  • Take polaroid pictures when I travel

  • Attend a high-end fashion show

  • Go on a safari

  • Get hypnotized

  • Get a PhD

  • Complete a course on the descriptive grammar of Polish

  • Get weekly massages

  • Drive along Pacific Coast Highway

  • Run up the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art wearing a grey tracksuit

  • Have a boat party with my closest friends

  • Take a night swim in a rooftop pool

  • Experience a real Halloween

  • Study at Oxford/Cambridge

  • Visit/be a lecturer at Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown and Berkeley

  • Live in a beachfront house

  • Eat vegan breakfast in an American diner

  • Take a road trip around Europe

  • Translate a novel

  • Be an editor

  • Work on a movie set

  • Get high while listening to the 70s music

  • Jump over ocean waves every year

  • Write and publish a book

  • Be a guest on a late night show

And what do you want to do before you die?

If you found this list inspiring, I’d challenge you to create your own!