Recycling my thoughts.

I had to go to the recycling center today to pick up “containers with lids” for the mural I'll be painting. I had no idea they had so much random junk at the recycling center! They even have a clothes rack. I really didn’t like being at the recycling center because it felt like I was going through trash, which wasn’t pleasant. And I only found two good containers for paint.
I always thought I had a clear grasp on the conditions of less fortunate people, but I think that we are all doing a lot of wishful thinking there. We are not very understanding at all. I felt like, “ew, recycling center, I don’t want to touch stuff,” all the while I watched two older ladies going through the clothes rack. Maybe I need to get out more. Not “out”, but more like out there, doing something productive with myself. I'm not narrow-minded and I do enjoy serving people, but today it was just interesting to note that my thought pattern on location didn't go with my usual thought pattern.

I never really thought about this so much, but I’ve recently realized that the mental list of “things I’d like to one day see happen” is my list of goals. This is kind of fascinating, and these are in no particular order really, but in my lifetime I want to:
1. Donate $1,000,000 (or more! The more God blesses me the more I’ll bless others!)
2. Travel to Africa with missions
3. Travel to India with missions
4. Write a popular novel series
5. Learn to play the Balalaika
6. Adopt a child
7. Skydive
8. Travel Europe and Asia
9. Help revolutionize Christianity in Russia
10. Get a D.D.S. degree
11. Then have lots of pretty babies (emphasis on the “lots” and the “pretty”)
12. Then be a housewife for a while (this is where the “write a popular novel series” will most likely happen)
13. Then open my practice
14. Then open a boutique (I’ll be overworked, I know)
I just want to do AWESOME STUFF FOR GOD. That sums up my life’s goals. Whatever that takes, really.

Okay I have no idea where this thought is going. I kind of lost it after a while. How this all ties into the recycling center I'm not quite sure.

--E.A.