What are your dreams?
 

I want to wake up with the sun.
I want to ride a bike on a mountain trail.
I want to get in shape and lose the wine belly.
I want to run and jump.
I want to roll around with my daughters and laugh till my sides are sore.
I want to bake pastries.
I want to learn to play guitar.
I want to have clear, lively, radiant skin again.
I want my smile to reflect the joy from within my soul.
I want to travel to distant lands.
I want to learn more about my heritage.
I want to swim with dolphins.
I want to sail out on the ocean.
I want to see whales.
I want to learn to surf.
I want to overcome fear.
I want to help someone every day.
I want to be pure.
I want to paint.
I want to make a big collage across an entire wall of things that inspire me.
I want a puppy.
I want to be content with what I have.
I want to forgive.
I want to be sober.
I want to love.

I want to live.

Beautiful.

And you can do these.

How?

Start from the bottom of your list, and go backwards to the top.

That is how you will achieve these things :)

you love the ocean like me. I am a surfer and I used to work on boats so I did all those ocean ones. Lots of dolphins here when it gets warmer.

I want to learn Spanish
I want to go backpacking in the Andes

Instead of a "bucket list" (stuff you plan to do before you kick the proverbial), it's a "Jug list" (stuff you plan to do now that you've put the plug in the proverbial).

With sobriety, we get options. Not everything we want or dream of, necessarily, but possibilities that otherwise do not exist.

I'd like to live long and happily.

Not one single thing on that list is out of your reach.
Get to gettin'...life is short.

I make new dreams every day. :)

That is lovely, Restorative. All that, and so much more, is attainable.

As for me, I just want to matter in this world.

I have an irrational fear of dolphins so that's not on my list.

At this point I'm enjoying the dream itself.

I want to, someday, make it up to my family.

I love your anthem. It is life affirming. As is the dream in your eyes. Thanks.