Jordy Ponce

So I would love to get to visit somewhere out of the country once again.

I haven't heard of it, but now I'm going to be obsessed with it.

It also reminds me of this really cool poem by Thomas Tran's trauma called the blue house.

And in it, he talks so much about how not every journey was meant for us that could have been for us.

And so all we can do is be at peace with that.

And he says, all sketches wish to be real.

And it just gives me goosebumps.

And it's a similar idea, right?

That there's all these different,

directions we can take, and it's a normal human experience to kind of lament the ones we can't and enjoy the ones we can.

What really stood out to me and something I've learned on this bucket listing journey is that it is a team sport and people have come to help me do it.

And I haven't done any of these things alone.

And so I loved how she was in on it to help her friends, even though it could have put her in mortal peril and did.

Well, now I have to add reading June Baby to my bucket list.

In my experience with my story and with cancer, I have found that meaning and purpose has been so important, as I mentioned.

And I love how she really went for it.

She said there are all these pressures to –

follow this one maybe more seemingly secure path.

But instead, she really prioritized having that sense of meaning and purpose in her career.

And sometimes those things are more important than gaining the approval of others or financial security is really being able to enjoy every day.