The world was here last.

Today's news showed that Japan keeps on getting raped by tsunamis and earthquakes, America keeps on bombing Libya, and Rio de Janerio has a 23 year old man shooting and killing innocent children.

Everything in this world is so ugly and devastating. I talked this through with a good friend of mine, and she is convinced that the world will end and humans will be wiped out. In a biblical sense, it will be more or less like Noah and the Ark. Swoop, slooosh, drown all the sins and hate and hurt and unhappiness-

If the world ended tomorrow, I would perish knowing that I have had a very fulfilling life. I have loved, I have hurt, I have given back, I have traveled, I have had a family, I have read great works of literature and heard great pieces of music, I have essentially experienced exactly what a 21 year old should have experienced- but there will be a list of tasks that I wouldn't have accomplished. So- if the world is set to end in 2012, it gives me roughly 9 months to cross off things from my bucket list.

The following is an excerpt from my bucket list:

1.) Learn how to drive a car,
2.) Run a marathon,
3.) Try out for American Idol,
4.) Live in Portland, Oregon (this is brought on with my current favorite show, Portlandia),
5.) Work at a homeless shelter,
6.) Learn to play the guitar,
7.) Write an original song,
8.) Knit a sweater vest,
9.) Own a dog,
10.) Tie-dye a shirt,
11.) Go camping in Europe,
12.) Cliff dive,
13.) Jump out of a plane,
14.) Pick my own bouquet of flowers from the wild,
15.) Grow a plant from a seed,
16.) Pet a panda,
17.) Go ape shit on a copier-Office Space style (refer to image),

18.) Build a huge sand castle with a moat,
19.) Make 1000 origami swans,
20.) Be in a wedding.