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Day #2: Bucket List

Posted on March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 by Ernest Tuape

Do I have a Bucket List? I don’t think I have one. Maybe it’s because I don’t understand what it is. I don’t know what it should have. True, there are things I want to do. I don’t consider them Bucket List worthy though. I did what a clueless guy like me would do. I googled.

Turns out, people are interested in this Bucket List thing. The results made me adjust my glasses. I got 6,010,000,000 results in 0.62 seconds from Google. I bet my chocolate bar you brushed your eyes over that number because your brain couldn’t immediately process it.

One result flirted with me. It whispered my name and made me go all chills. I turned and winked and told it, “I’ll spend time with you tonight.” It was the movie – The Bucket List. I’ll watch it before going to bed. Maybe I’ll have a good list after watching this movie. For now, there’s only one thing I want to do.

Fix my dad’s resting place. I should have done this earlier in my life. But I was broke so many times in my 20’s and fixing his grave was not a priority. I was surviving. The last time I stood at the side of his resting place, there were cracks on the cement. Part of the top had fallen in creating a bend. The ground had sunk in a little. His grave looked dilapidated.

It looked tired and smelled of loneliness and abandonment.

I held my gaze at it and thought, “Man, you’re staying in an old place.” I don’t know what his response to my thought was.

I’m 30 now, the age at which he kicked the bucket (see what I did there? hehehe) 26 years (27 this year) ago. And it’s still in my plan to fix where his remains currently sleep. So help me God.

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  • 11 thoughts on “Day #2: Bucket List”

    1. Tina says:
      March 31, 2020 at 10:07 pm

      Hope you get to fix his final resting place, there is some level of satisfaction and feeling of fulfillment when you manage to do that for your dad.

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      1. Ernest Tuape says:
        April 1, 2020 at 2:21 pm

        I sure hope I do.

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    2. Minos says:
      March 31, 2020 at 11:48 pm

      😊 I am sure you will accomplish that!🤗

      Reply
      1. Ernest Tuape says:
        April 1, 2020 at 2:22 pm

        Yesssss. 🙂

        Reply
    3. Awuor says:
      April 1, 2020 at 12:11 pm

      Pakwach boy…this is deep and hope you empty that bucket soonest. Please do more writing…some of us get drunk from your cup literary awesomeness. Keep writing Tuape.

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      1. Ernest Tuape says:
        April 1, 2020 at 2:23 pm

        Thanks for your encouragement and kind words.

        Reply
    4. Lisa Romans says:
      April 1, 2020 at 3:33 pm

      I hope you eventually get to fix his resting place.

      Also, how did the movie go?

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      1. Ernest Tuape says:
        April 1, 2020 at 8:17 pm

        I’ll fix it. I got distracted and didn’t watch it to the end. I might review it after watching to the end.

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    5. Mercy Maina says:
      April 1, 2020 at 9:18 pm

      As you plan to finish the movie, Bucket List, I’d suggest having that precious resource called tissue ,1-2 boxes, next to you. For some reason my allergies flared up 😉

      Fixing up you’re dad’s resting place is a nice thing to have on the bucket list.

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      1. Ernest Tuape says:
        April 2, 2020 at 2:20 pm

        I finished the movie without restocking on tissue. Hehehe.

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    6. Vicky says:
      April 3, 2020 at 10:19 am

      So God help you indeed 🙏

      Reply

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