I have to say, if my mom were here, she would have been all over this and probably would have found them all by now...she lived for of-the-moment spontaneity (stupidity).
I had all the momentum in the world when I started, it seemed like a pretty basic idea: read Sweet Valley High and probably eat some Swedish Fish while doing it. I went gung-ho, and I went hard. And then something happened and I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's that I haven't gotten much response from other people with locating books or if general, I can't get people to follow my blog. It's just not the same if I can't get other people in on it too. I wanted people to feel as enthusiastic about my little project as I am or was.
It's hard to motivate people, even when it comes to doing small stuff, even though this really isn't that small. Yeah, they're just books, and it started as a joke, but it's just one thing on a list of many that I want to do. When I told people I've started my Bucket List, some people started to do theirs too and that was awesome. I had one friend tell me she didn't want to do a Bucket List because what if she died when she completed the list. What if she never does her list and then spends the rest of her life wondering 'what-if'?
I have more fun when I get people in on the action. I want people to remember and feel nostalgic along with me. I want more than one person to say, "Remember the one where..." and then we laugh about it because honestly, the books are pretty stupid. I think part of my thinking when I committed to the idea was that not everything on a list of things to do before you die has to be serious. Some of the item on the list are big; I'd like to complete my Bachelors and then Masters degrees. But sometimes all it takes is a little PG romance and a bag of Swedish Fish
