I am a full supporter of living life to the fullest in every way- physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. I want every day to be a day worth remembering and reliving. Due to this, when I was 14, I wrote a bucket list of the things I want to experience before I die. Whether that is in 80 years or 80 minutes, I hope to have lived a fulfilled life. As an almost 19-year-old (July 28, happy birthday to me), I thought it would be fun to look back on that list I wrote five years ago and see my progress.

1. Ballroom dance with someone special to "Tale as Old as Time" — Good news! My friends threw me a surprise 17th birthday party where I got the chance to slow dance with my boyfriend at the time whom I loved very much

2. Find a best friend that I'll know for all my life — I'm still currently searching but I have made some amazing friends in college who I am sure I will be close with for a long time.

3. Make a difference — I want to impact as many people as I can while I'm here. While I feel I have impacted someone's life, I won't stop until after I am gone.

4. Stop feeling tiny in my family — I want to be someone my family will be proud of. I am still working on that.

5. Go to Australia/prove I've conquered my fear of the dangers in the ocean — Funny thing is that I wanted to be a marine biologist for a long time. I haven't been to Australia yet but I have accomplished the second part!

6. Rock climb a mountain

7. Become an incredible, faithful Christian — I struggle with this every day, but I am trying

8. Learn to play guitar — I'm currently learning

9. Dance on stage again — When I wrote this, I had just stopped performing as a dancer. Since then I have danced on stage 3 times and every time made it feel like I never stopped.

10. Find a career — I am a social work major hoping to work with abuse and sexual assault cases

11. Shrink my thighs — Yes I was and still am a very self-conscious girl. Since I wrote this, I have lost weight, not in the healthiest way, but I have learned to be comfortable in my body

12. Stop being so paranoid — I believe another term for this to control my anxiety, which is a work in progress

13. Cheer again — I was a competitive cheerleader for 6 years

14. Find my true love — Hey boi wya

15. A fairytale ending — I still hope that one day I will live happily ever after, no matter how naive that is

16. Become a role model — I want to inspire people

17. Make my parents proud — I hope I am

18. Introduce Jesus to many people — I have been on two international mission trips where I was able to share my faith with many people

19. Read the whole "Harry Potter" series — This still has not happened but I've read three of them

20. Become Guard captain — I was Lieutenant 2013-14 and Captain 2014-15

21. Get into Pepperdine University — I did it!

22. Get my heart broken — the only way to discover who you can be is to fix yourself when you're broken. I have had my heart broken and destroyed and I have never been happier with who I've become

25. Study abroad — I will be going the Montevideo, Uruguay this fall

26. Become bilingual — This will be accomplished by December 2016

27. Prove them wrong — When someone says I can't do something, I go out of my way to show them that I can

28. Live, laugh, love

29. Publish my work — I love writing poetry and I am hoping one day others will enjoy it, too. For now, it is just for me. However, writing for the Odyssey is such a huge honor!

In five years I am very proud of what I have accomplished. While some items are works in progress, I have still come a long way since I was 14. In five years from now, I want to look back at this and realize that I have done so much more that just what is on this list. I want to have lived and keep living for as long as I can.