Written by Erica Rose Jackson Ok, five things I would love to do before my time on this Earth is over include: a cage dive with Great White Sharks, swimming with orcas, taking my family to Ireland, meeting one of my favorite celebs, and writing a novel. None of these tasks seem too out of reach, unless you go by my husband’s protests. Here’s why each of these things matter to me enough to be a part of my bucket list (which I’ve never written) so these are it at the moment. Cage Diving with Great Whites - The sharks are the item my husband protests my involvement in because, you know, danger. When I was in high school, I saw a man named Andre Hartman on the Discovery Channel dive with these beautiful creatures. After that, I googled him and learned he does charters, I was even able to interview him for my high school paper. Getting closer to these animals that inspired my deep love for shark movies (thanks to Jaws) would be one of the best memories I could imagine. Swimming with Orcas - I am from the Free Willy generation when Jesse and Willy won our hearts as the boy and whale friendship duo. After that, I’ve always wanted to get in the water with an orca causing my earliest career dream to be a marine biologist and work at Sea World. Well, Sea World is out thanks to their mistreatment of these creatures which was wonderfully exposed by Blackfish. However, they aren’t known to attack so if I found them in the wild, I think I’d try to interact. Taking my family to Ireland - I was able to go to Ireland when I was a young girl on my parent’s honeymoon. Ireland was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been and I still have so many happy memories from my time there with my Mom and Dad. I want to give my kids the same thing that I had because it will always be a chapter in my life that I can look back on and just smile. Meeting one of my favorite celebs - This one might sound a little off, if you know me, because I have met some of my most admired celebrities like William Shatner, for example. But there are others and meeting as many of them as I can would be amazing. Writing a novel - I have written blogs, articles, papers, and fanfiction but I’ve never created my own story. Maybe a short story but nothing comparing to the length of a novel. It is my goal to take one of the ideas I already have or come up with a new one and create a wholly original work, all my own. If I pursued publishing it that would be very cool but right now just writing it would be enough.
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