Son: Bucket List, 8-7-08

Simplicity
and its willful pursuit --
rather than the ongoing worship of false gods --
Finding a means to an end of happiness rather than accumulation.

To love and put people first,
Stressing more the gifts other bring into your life rather than your needs they fill,
Chastise priorities of fun nights and choose, instead, great times and meaning.

Accomplishment,
in your own right,
Rather than those things to be talked about at high school reunions and family get togethers,
Even now,
Identify that you want this so you can feel better than everyone else.

Strive for "you look happy"
OR
"you sound happy"
OR, better,
"I am happy,"
instead of the awful and ill fated wow factor that comes with the creation of want.

A covetless life,
not to want,
but to succeed in self.

Abandon suffering and learn meaning,
Relieve evil and do good,
Express everything and hide nothing.
Accept and rejoice,
Move on and pass awy.

Make no plan for death,
or a to-do list for the end,
but
Make it matter to yourself that you live.