The real benefits of starting your bucket list early

The most common theme in this blog is starting each of your life goals early on. For some of these goals it is obvious why it would be important to start them early in your life, but even for those where the necessity to start early is not so apparent, starting you bucket list early allows one to achieve goals they may have thought unreachable. With this in mind my next goal is again and ongoing quest, but one with the potential to completely change a persons life. Choosing a career path is a choice that is often times made only once in a persons life, but still is one of the most important choices a person can make. Kids begin thinking about what they want to be when they grow up pretty much as soon as they can talk. Many kids want to be firefighters, police officers, or astronauts. Personally, when I was younger, I wanted to be an archaeologist. Now this seems to be a weird choice for a 5 year old kid to make, but it was supported by my parents who bought me at home archaeology kits, and taking me to "dig sights," where I joined a bunch of other kids in "excavating" some smaller bones and shells. As I got older my interests strayed from archaeology and I decided this might not be my future line of work. The importance however is that with my parents support I was, even at a young age, able to look into my potential choice and evaluate it accordingly. Given the support of my parents and family I was able to make the choice to change plans completely on my own, not for a lack of support, but for a lack of desire. Choosing a career may seem to be a one time choice but that is the very reason one should look into this choice early. During high school I was "sure" that I wanted to be a doctor working in the marine core. As I progressed through school I became more and more sure of my decision, until that is, that I found out that the Marines do not have a medical program and instead use the medical staff of the navy. Upon discovering this I realized that this was not the right choice for me. Coming into freshman year of college I "knew" that I, like my father, wanted to be an attorney. This too has warped and changed over time. Now I realize that I do not know yet what I really want to do. But what I do know is that I can not and will not stop looking at different options until I find the one that truly makes me happy. This is a goal that although obvious, is possibly one of the most important on this list.