My Listing Book

I was rummaging though my bookshelf the other day and happened to dig up my Listing Book. In the very first page of the book, I promised that it would be the complete list of what I would ever need and ever think of. It is sort of like a dairy, but in list form. Apparently, my pledge did not exactly came through. There were only about ten pages of of lists. (The book is about palm-sized, so ten pages of it 'aint that much). Of course, it is impossible to list out all of my thoughts in just those puny ten pages, some of them not even half-filled. However, there were some interesting things in the book. First up is a list of my possible future careers. Among those, a few were actually pretty interesting. I put down "dolphin trainer" probably after I came back from an aquarium. Another one was to be in one of those food and entertainment shows where the person travels to different countries and eat different types of food. I mentally crossed that one off the list because I heard some of the food those people have to eat are that appetizing, for example, insects. A few pages later, there was a list of places I wanted to go. When I was young (and maybe I still do) I wanted to travel around the world. The top three places I wanted to go to were, one, Venice, two, Iceland and third, the dead sea. (Hmm I just realized that all of these places have something to do with water.) Lastly, the longest list by far was the list about things I wanted to complete before I go to college (most of them during the summer before it). I had some pretty ambitious goals, like trying to learn computer programming (which might be a disaster when I try). Another one is to try and learn Hakka, the language of all of my grandparents. I can understand Hakka, but never though out all those years, never brought myself up to actually speaking the language. I think I'll start up the Listing Book again, just for the sake of it. I might even bring it to college. I still have a think pile of paper to go through (probably around two-hundred pages), but I hope to fill out all the pages in the notebook and when I am old, I can look back to all my goals and dreams. I hope I'll be able to check them off by then and feel satisfied.