Am I getting old?

For some reason I've been feeling really old recently.  I know that Im only 21, and in the scheme of things I am still fairly young, but I feel like I'm ancient ;P Dusty and I were sitting at our friends Amanda and Lyman's house on Sunday and they were talking about how young Adele is (she's 21) and how old they were (I won't disclose their ages but they're nowhere close to 30!) and I told them that they were making me feel super young because I'm Adele's age, but in my mind I'm as old as sin! I think its because when I wrote my list of things I wanted to do when I graduated from high school, I only wrote 4 things and I've already accomplished all of them

1. Graduate from college (I'm doing this in April)
2. Move out of my parents house (Obviously I did this because I'm married now)
3. Teach people in/or from a developing country (This is what I do every day for my internship)
4. Get married in the temple (April 29, 2010)


I thought that these were big dreams, and at the time they were; but now, 4 years later, I've completed all of them and I am starting to feel old because of it.  So last night I decided to work on a new bucket list of things to achieve by the time I die so that hopefully I will start to feel my age again :)  This list is pretty fluid because I know that some things might not be reasonable, I'll just have to wait and see where the future takes me.  Here is what I came up with last night:

1. Learn Portuguese (Dusty and I started on this in the beginning of February and now I can say a few short phrases and name everything in the bathroom)

2. Get into the best shape of my life (I think I am already done with this one, but there is always room for improvement when it comes to fitness)

3. Visit Egypt, Africa, India, Brazil and China

4. Write a gluten-free blog (I did this my junior year of college but stopped blogging because I got busy, so I need to pick it up again)

5. Have a family (I want 4 or 5 kids and hopefully and I get to adopt some of them!)

6. Raise my children bilingual (Thats why I'm learning Portuguese)

7. Buy a house

8. Drive across the country in a convertible with the top down

9. Learn how to throw a football perfectly (Dusty says I need to be able to do this in case he dies early so that we can raise a family of football players)

10. Grow out my hair so it touches the middle of my back (Im working on this one currently, I've been growing it for 8 months so now it at least touches my shoulders)

11. Go to the dentist and not have any cavities (My dentist says this is impossible because I have no enamel on my teeth but I can at least try) 

12. Publish a paper in a scholarly public health journal (I've already written one that I want to work on publishing in the future)

13. Reduce childhood obesity by educating mothers about the effect of neonatal care on their children's life

14. Have lasik eye surgery

15. Get a Master's degree

16. Help a country after a natural disaster

17. Start a nonprofit organization that deals with healthcare and health programs in a developing country

18. Take my family to work for the nonprofit organization during summer breaks from school

19. Write a book

20. Read the scriptures daily for the rest of my life

21. Read the entire Book of Mormon without being asked to by someone else (I'm almost done with this one)


Hopefully by having new goals in life I won't feel as old anymore, and now I have something to look forward to when I graduate in April!