A Bucket of a List

I'm a slacker. My friend's a slacker. We're both slackers and we're proud. We've never given in to the pressure of school, teachers, exams, projects, or the hopeless overachievers around us. We just go about, living our lives nonchalantly without giving those things a second thought. What I love most about our ability to not care about school is that we now appreciate more things in life. There's more out there than just getting good grades and sucking up to teachers, which is what the two of us do anyway. My friend, Miss Nickel the Juicer, took it upon herself to make a semi-bucket list, which I now call 'Nena and Nina's Infinite Playlist.' Although I have my whole life planned out, I never thought about making a bucket list. Making a bucket list is the first item to go on my bucket list. I'm just anticipating the feeling of what it would be like on my 80th birthday to look at my list and be able to cross out all of the crazy things I did in my life. It's quite exciting if you think about it. Since I don't have my list done yet, here are Nickel's top 10:

#10: go to a concert
#9: shave my head
#8: take a bite of an apple in the big apple
#7: get arrested (not for anything bad of course), spend a night in jail
#6: fall in love
#5: actually really help someone
#4: swim in the ocean with fancy clothes on
#3: GO TO VEGAS AND NOT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING
#2: travel. see the world. the good and the bad…but more good
#1: do yoga in the middle of a street

So far, my items are slightly less risque. I want to go skydiving, adopt an orphan, go to third-world country and just help out, live somewhere in the Middle East, memorize the Qur'an, go to China, learn yoga, eat sushi, and a bunch of other things that might take some thinking over.

Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language

L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”

Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.

Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.

Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.

Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.

Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.

Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.

Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.

Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.