“Start a bar fight,” two friends
separately suggested to me the day before I was to break a board with my bare
fist as part of my first Tae Kwon Do belt test.
Although I’ve been asking for
suggestions for my 40-Before-40 List, I think people have been misunderstanding
the purpose. I’m not creating a Bucket List; the 40-Before-40 List is
different. It is not a list of things to do before I die; rather, it’s a way to
commemorate the entrance into a new decade, doing something challenging,
entertaining, or celebratory each day.
“Think me but less violent,” I
said, not knowing that the next day I’d be icing a swollen and bruised knuckle
from punching a board in half on my first try. Mostly, I should have added, the
thing I do each day should have some positive result, whether it’s one of
simple childhood joy via, for example, roller-skating (spoiler alert) or one of
making other people happy. Starting a fight with a bunch of drunk people
doesn’t exactly fit into the positive-result schema.
Besides, in what seems like
another lifetime, I once started a bar fight.
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