A quick story: I was out disk golfing (courtesy of my Jo’s 26 before 26 list I’m now a regular disk golfer). We came up to a pin and there was something in the pin.
“What is that?” I asked my friend Brian who was closer to it.
“It’s a crabapple.”
As I came closer I inspected it. “Ohh. That’s what a crabapple looks like. I’ve never seen one before.”
“You’ve never tasted one?” he asked seeming incredulous.
“No,” I said, surprised. “They’re edible? What do they taste like?”
“I don’t know… They’re pretty good.”
I retrieved my disk and we walked toward the next hole in silence for a minute until he looked at me with a smirk on his face. “They’re not edible, just so you know. Don’t go eat one.”
“What!? It’s good you told me!”
“I know. I realized, you’d bake a crabapple pie one day and I’d be like, “why on earth would you do that?” and you’d say, “I don’t know. I didn’t know what they tasted like so I put it on my Jo’s 26 before 26 list. I’m trying to get the most out of life.” “
“Yeah. I would do that,” I conceded, content.
I may be somewhat gullible. But at least I do try to get the most out of life. Hopefully I won’t die eating crabapple pie. But if I do, it’d be alright. There are worse ways to go.
And with that, I give you this years new goals:
Jo’s 27 before 27 List:
- Play a disk golf game w/ 4 holes at par
- Buy a house
- Walk a marathon distance
- Be able to do 3 pull ups
- Make 30 pitches for articles to be published
- Smoke a cigar
- Leave the country again (so far age 24 is the only age since I was 17 during which I haven’t left the country.)
- Go to a new state
- Go to a professional football game
- Learn to play tennis
- Run through or picnic in a field of sunflowers
- Do Lumosity for 30 days
- Take a pottery class
- Ride a camel or elephant
- Watch all of Seinfeld
- Finish watching Lost
- Watch the Matrix Trilogy
- Read another Steinbeck book
- Read Harry Potter Book 1
- Read 3 memoirs
- Read Catch 22
- Go on a backpacking trip
- Do “morning minutes” every day for 21 days (where you write for 10 minutes straight first thing upon waking)
- Try fruitcake
- Complete level 1 of Rosetta Stone for Italian
- Try Gin
- Learn to play poker
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Jo O’Hanlon is an adventurer and storyteller. She tries to be honest about the ugly and hard parts of life, and the beautiful parts too. This blog is one of the places she shares her thoughts and stories.
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