{"id":49272,"date":"2024-08-18T06:15:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T10:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/?p=49272"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T14:28:40","slug":"before-i-turn-off-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/avant-deteindre-mon-coeur\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I turn off my heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my last letter, I announced that I had finally booked a cruise to Alaska \u2013 another box on my bucket list checked off. This has inspired me to talk more about bucket lists with you and what I\u2019d like to experience before my time is up. Each one of us, dear readers, should slow down, reflect upon, choose, name and list a few activities, wishes or dreams we\u2019d like to realize before the big finale. Think about it for a moment, especially us elderly people who can hear the ticktock of our internal timers getting louder and louder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve loved making lists all my life! I\u2019ve had all sorts of lists: goals to reach, documents to learn by heart, plans to approve, new recipes to master, daily chores to handle, best-selling books to read, Sunday letters to rework and an ever-changing list of unfulfilled desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can start a bucket list by randomly writing down thoughts as they pop into your head and then rearrange them in order of importance. The goal of this exercise is to uncover simple and adventurous experiences you\u2019d like to live, and then project them into the universe of possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deciding the order of the items on my bucket list is turning out to be as complicated as removing a cherry pit without staining your fingers. I have an awful lot of years of experience and, even with all this life experience behind me, I still can\u2019t figure out what would truly make me happy before turning off the lights one last time. A bit more success? Finding love? I certainly need more time to taste the true love I\u2019ve always searched for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I turn off my heart, I\u2019d love to drive around my native Gasp\u00e9sie one more time. I\u2019m too busy at the office to do it this summer, but next year, I promise I\u2019ll do it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve often wished I could rely on the companionship of a pet to finally experience the affection and attachment between animal and master. But being overly busy seeding restaurants all across Canada, I\u2019ve always hesitated. Am I too old now to learn the language of an animal? I can just imagine the puppy or cat keeping warm on my couch, watching documentaries with me and playing with my balls of yarn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dreamed of going to the opera for the first time because I simply adore the human voice and the interaction between the operatic characters. I finally saw \u201cMadama Butterfly\u201d in the spring of 2023. A masterpiece. Will I go back to the opera soon? Absolutely! I\u2019m waiting for Giacomo Puccini\u2019s TURANDOT. This famous story of a fictitious medieval Chinese princess who\u2019s as cruel as she is beautiful. Quick, I have to see whether it\u2019s coming to Montreal soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wish to visit Sweden and, more specifically, the boutiques of fashion designer Gudrun Sj\u00f6d\u00e9n. In another life, I would have loved being her neighbour and working in her workshops. Ask Google to show you this talented Swedish artist\u2019s unique clothing designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also want to visit Iceland, the mother country of my favourite novelist, Audur Ava \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, who wrote the highly acclaimed \u201cRosa Candida\u201d and more incredible books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I dreamed of writing and publishing a new book, and I did just that, in autumn 2023. Its moderate success is enough to motivate me to keep on writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope to live for as long as possible \u2013 beyond 100 if the angel of longevity will let me. I love waking up every morning, opening my eyes, hearing my heartbeat, getting up and feeling blessed that my fingers can still type away on a keyboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your bucket list is a tally of wishes, dreams or challenges you\u2019d like to realize. It\u2019s a bottomless basket in which you can drop a new dream or remove one that no longer tempts you or has already come true. It\u2019s best to try and strike a balance between small and big projects for your list. The easiest ones will give you the confidence to tackle the harder ones!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also a good idea to regularly read your list so your determination to keep checking off your life\u2019s desires doesn\u2019t waver. Isn\u2019t it an excellent occasion to rejoice and celebrate? Sharing your bucket list with friends or family might also entice some of them to start their own list. And isn\u2019t that a wonderful gift to offer them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I firmly believe that declaring our wishes to the universe is the best way to make them come true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cora
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In my last letter, I announced that I had finally booked a cruise to Alaska \u2013 another box on my bucket list checked off. This has inspired me to talk more about bucket lists with you and what I\u2019d like to experience before my time is up. Each one of us, dear readers, should slow down, reflect upon, choose, name and list a few activities, wishes or dreams we\u2019d like to realize before the big finale. Think about it for a moment, especially us elderly people who can hear the ticktock of our internal timers getting louder and louder. I\u2019ve loved making lists all my life! I\u2019ve had all sorts of lists: goals to reach, documents to learn by heart, plans to approve, new recipes to master, daily chores to handle, best-selling books to read, Sunday letters to rework and an ever-changing list of unfulfilled desires. You can start a bucket list by randomly writing down thoughts as they pop into your head and then rearrange them in order of importance. The goal of this exercise is to uncover simple and adventurous experiences you\u2019d like to live, and then project them into the universe of possibilities. Deciding the order of the items on my bucket list is turning out to be as complicated as removing a cherry pit without staining your fingers. I have an awful lot of years of experience and, even with all this life experience behind me, I still can\u2019t figure out what would truly make me happy before turning off the lights one last time. A bit more success? Finding love? I certainly need more time to taste the true love I\u2019ve always searched for. Before I turn off my heart, I\u2019d love to drive around my native Gasp\u00e9sie one more time. I\u2019m too busy at\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":49287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Apr\u00e8s sa croisi\u00e8re en Alaska, Mme Cora en dit plus sur sa \u00ab bucket list \u00bb et sur ce qu'elle souhaite encore vivre.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lettre-mme-cora"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chezcora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49272"}],"curies":[{"name":"WP","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}