In Africa (most foreigners visiting Uganda always say
‘hello Africa’ and it annoys many so I took it on(:), one might say you are
overly dreamy if you have a bucket list because that stuff is for summerz
mostly. I beg to differ unless coming back to Kampala after a 3 day holiday in
Kabale makes me a summer then I definitely qualify I am justified.
When I was about to sit for my O level final examinations,
my brother took it upon himself to be a part of my revision process not so much
as a tutor but as an askari who would make sure I woke up at the right time in
order to maximize my revision efforts. He also insisted I write out the
activities for that day even if the entire list was sleep and watch movies (for
the weekends). The writing stuck on after that and I had a number of journal
keeping phases which I had to stop when my paranoid self went through the
scenario where someone got a hold of it.
There is something about writing out something and then
ticking it off. I imagine that’s how entertainers feel when they win awards because
it is a physical shift in the right direction. Yes, I just compared ticking
something off my to-do list to a Grammys award. It is what is and you garra
start somewhere.
For what seemed like forever, I wanted to get a tongue
piercing and this was back when I only had 2 sets of piercings and tongue
piercings didn’t have all the perversions that exist today. I’d sit on my bed
and imagine my life after I got my tongue piercing, how different it would be.
I prolly thought I would be able to fly or something as cool as that. Many
years later on November 1st, I got the long awaited piercing and
that moment right there is when I knew that possibilities are indeed endless.
May be it was a coincidence or may be it wasn’t, all I
know that having my bucket list challenged me to work towards achieving another
tick (in my mind, it’s those super cool stars we would get in kindergarten when
we excelled) and created space for more because each time I re wrote it there
was something I had achieved which was eliminated.
This reminds me; I need to update my list for the next
half of the year!