Even though discussing our dreams and aspirations is less daunting than the question of “What are you going to do after college?,” it’s still really difficult for me to go over everything I want to do with my life. So here’s a simpler way of expressing it:
Dante’s 2023-24 School Year Bucket List
- Get my degree
- Get a 4.0 GPA
- Graduate and immediately go into the workforce
- Start my path to world domination
- Release a triple-platinum, Grammy-award-winning album in between
- Start my own business
- Open a museum
- Gain a brain chip that allows every piece of information I learn to be permanently stored in it
- Not gain any weight from eating unhealthily
- Read all of the books collecting dust in my house
- Dance in the rain
- Get bit by a rat, contract rabies, but make a stunning recovery from it
- Write about this incident in my New York Times bestselling autobiography
- ???
- Profit
- Finally win an arm wrestling match
- Overcome my imposter syndrome
- Advocate for baby seals
- Go on a world tour to promote my music and PhD dissertation at the same time
- Donate my now-grandiose amounts of money to the poor and to educational institutions
- Win a Nobel Prize
- Start my stand-up comedy career and get booed off the stage
- Eradicate world hunger
- Find a cure for cancer
- Put all of my accomplishments into the aforementioned museum I open
- Become a household name
- World domination!
Of course, there’s no way I can do all of these things, but this is a sort of simulation of how my brain works when I receive a question or prompt of this nature. I find that there’s so much I want to do with my life, but there’s no way I could achieve all of it, and this can cause a lot of internal conflict. For instance, I really love singing, but I knew that there was no way I could turn it into a career. So I decided to pursue something I was also really passionate about in college instead, but it still feels like there’s often something missing or “wrong” about the path I’ve chosen. Eventually, I’ll learn to make one goal and stick to fulfilling it, but I’m not sure when that will happen.
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That is an awesome list, Dante, and I had no idea you could sing! I’m so excited to see how ambitious you are, and I have seen a lot of your potential and how hard you work to get there. Looking forward to seeing you winning in life!