Buckets-Andrew Hardy

High School is an interesting deadline. Finishing high school doesn't narrow any opporttunities. In fact for many people, high school restricts what they can do. For that reason the only things I can imagine would be wanting to accomplish something from an early age, to better prepare you for an adult life. I think the thing that would be the most dramatic thing for me in terms of growth would be recording a EP. That would be an illustration of a lot of skills I've been learning, and important in learning to articulate through different mediums.

Before college is another story. In some of the same ways as high school, it prepares you for the adult world, but also allows you a level of freedom that doesn't occur in an adult life. I still don't have an incredible amount that I feel I need to accomplish before hand though. I would like to still have some experience creating things, but nothing specific. If I could publish some sort of fiction or research in undergrad, that'd be amazing, but I'd be content without.

In my life is a different story. That is the ultimate deadline, and so a much harder decision to make. What I want, more than skydiving experience or marriage, is a sense of accomplishment. I don't know the specifics of what it might be, whether scientific or artistic, but I would like to create a body of work that means my life as some sort of significance. I want to matter before I die.