She chased life, before death chased her"

“Words are my weapons

Words console, comfort and calm me when all else fails me

♥ My Bucket List:

101 Things I want to do before I die!

I was inspired by the hit show the buried life. How amazing is that a group of four friends got together to realize that living their dreams before their untimely death was going to be the main focus of their life. So naturally I was inspired to write my own list. A few things I've been fortunate enough to have done, but 90% still awaits. Insh'allah I will get a chance to do each and every single one.

I am a big fan of lists: I make a list of almost everything I do.

- Lists of places I want to travel to,
- Passions I wanna master,
- Books I wanna read,
- List of all the things I look for in a man(ladies keep this one realistic but never removed anything off this particular list that's important to you.

Anyways, enough of my ramblings, here is my bucket list. 100 things I wanna do before I die.


1. Go sky diving
2. Resume my horse riding lessons
3. Meet my half sisters (Nasri, Maryam, Amal)
4. Have meal with all 12 of my siblings + my parents
5. Sand a love letter in a bottle by sea
6. Start a traveling book
7. Plant a tree and watch it grow
8. Take Magan Moments Photography to new heights
9. Buy a ferret
10.Make my own over-sized bag line and name if after my mother (Madina)
11. Pay off all my debt
12. Travel to Morocco, Australia, Brazil, Mali, Indonesia, South Africa,
Somali, Japan, Zanzibar, Italy, and Hawaii
13. Help deliver a baby (Samia your breathtakingly beautiful)
14. Visit and volunteer at an Orphanage (preferably in Africa or South America)
15. Hug a wild animal (Hugged a Cheetah in Kenya and came super
close to Lions)
16. Learn to ride a motorcycle
17. Dance unexpectedly somewhere in front of a large group of people
18. Learn to swim
19. Write and publish a poetry book
20. Get my masters in either Speech Pathology or Social Work
21. Get one of my photographs published in a major publication
22. Retire my mother and build her a home back in Africa
23. Learn to play the guitar
24. Open my own childcare center
25. Fall head over heels in love with a beautiful soul
26. Have children (praying for 4 healthy babies but will take what Allah willed
for me)
27. Ride a camel & a horse around the pyramids in Egypt
28. Go see Pharaoh
29. Throw a huge soiree
30. Ask out a really, really HOTTT guy
31. Get a dermal anchor piercing (got one on my right ring finger)
32. Start my own business
33. Stand at the top of the Eiffel tower and blow bubbles
34. Start wearing the Hijab again
35. Re-memorize the 9 chapters of Qu'ran I learned as a child and continue further
36. Meet Maya Angelou's or at least go to one of her poetry readings
37. Take my parents to Hajj
38. Become involved in NGO
39. Enroll and complete a baking/photography program
40. Climb a really high mountain
41. Take air balloon ride
42. Scuba Dive
43. Take shooting/target lessons
44. Become a vegetarian for a whole month (that's a long time without meat)
45. Get on the Oprah Winfrey show. What's the chance it will be on her
favorite things show?
46. Learn to skate
47. Go to Spain and run with the bulls
48. Purchase a house
49. Model

50. Get a dermal anchor engagement ring.
51. Quit drinking pop
52. Act in a play
53. Shave off all my hair. YES AS IN BOLD!
54. Get a child to be named after me Try 2 so far
55. Help wash a dead body
56. See the Lion King Play in New York
57. Experience an outdoor hot bath in the middle of winter
58. Learn to belly dance and salsa
59. Run a marathon for BREAST cancer
60. Volunteer at a rape crisis line
61. Ride in helicopter
62. Start a none profit organization for girls
63. Go to Disney world and act like BIG child
64. Learn to speak Arabic
65. Go hang gliding or zip lining
66. Watch the World Cup games live
67. Become homeless for one night and live on the street
68. Swim with dolphins
69. Become a head supervisor in my chosen profession
70. Direct a short movie
71. Donate blood
72. Learn to drive a stick shift engine
73. Learn to ski
74. Master photo shop + graphic design or at least become incredibility advanced
75. Come up with a sweet recipe to call my own
76. Help pay for my little siblings university tuition
77. Form a religious group
78. Perform a kind deed to at least 5-10 strangers without expecting anything
in return
79. Go to the beach at sunset and stay until sunrise.
80. Go on a 7 day road trip with loved ones
81. Bake and decorate an elaborate cake for someone I love
82. Go snorkeling and experience marine life up close
83. Watch a Cherry Blossom Tree bloom in Japan and leave behind my poem
My Sakura
84. Fly first class all dolled
85. Organize a picnic outing for a large group of friends
86. Go on a cruise
87. Go to a costume party and dress up as my favorite fantasy character: TINKERBELL
88. Take sign language courses
89. Become a waitress for a couple months (I have such respect for people who are
in the food/service industry)
90. Start a social movement on a cause that is near and dear to my heart
91. Go on vacation with all my girlfriends
92. Get at least 5 people I know to start their own bucket list
93. Go pack packing in Europe. Sleeping on trains, hostels and street corners.
94. Take self defense lessons
95. Write my own eulogy/obituary speech
96. Save someone’s life: Never thought it would be my
beloved mother! Thank you for saving her life Allah.
97. Do a lot of new activities ALONE!
98. Go stay with a host family in another part of the world
99.Never stop being opinionated, confident, bold, colorful and uniquely me.
100. Be a great mother, a great wife, a great woman, a great human being.
101.Don’t forget about this list and complete the first 100.

Maybe it's time to find the joy in your life. Look through the light hearted lens of your life and ask yourself the big, bold, and breathtaking question, "What's on your 'bucket list"?

xoxo
MzMagan