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CALLIOPE’S COLUMN

July

Knocked It Out of the Park

I’ve always admired people who set goals and stick to them, whether they aspire to run a 5K or lose weight or hit a professional milestone. I’ve got my own list of things that I want to accomplish in my life—a bucket list, if you will—and every time I tick an activity off, the satisfaction that hits me rivals a really good orgasm. Pressing the pen into the paper and creating that little check mark is so, so gratifying.

And last week, I experienced double the satisfaction. Not only did I check off a major item from my bucket list, but said item involved multiple orgasms.

I really knocked it out of the park, and I’m not speaking figuratively. I had sex on a baseball field, a personal bucket list moment of mine.

We’ll call it a win-win.

But crossing off this particular item got me to thinking: as I get older and am forced to be more responsible, will I have a chance to tick off the rest of the items on my bucket list? Does growing up mean giving up the fun things in life?