Vision Quest

SO I just started this web course for non-profit professionals about finding yourself and visioning your future and reaching new heights and stuff like that.

And one of our assignments is to try to create a vision for our future. The way we do this? By imagining our funeral.

I guess this is normal.

I'm supposed to think about what 4 people (a family member, a co-worker, a friend and a member of my community) would say about me.

So this is how I think it would go.

First my sister would get up and say something like, "I always thought my sister was a real putz, but she cracked me up, and she was nice to have around." Because my sister is not a really mushy person.

Then my boss would get up and say, "Jessica worked alot. I wish she was still around, because I have something I'd really like for her to do."

Then my scary, damaged friend would get up and say, "She liked to make up really funny song parodies. The time she sang "Wishin' and Hopin'" I almost peed myself. The lyrics were something like, 'hug him, and kiss him, and squeeze, and don't ask any questions, and when you do, you will be his. In a very emotionally unfulfilling way......"

Then the woman who lives downstairs from me would say, "She was a nice girl. Sometimes she left her porch light on for three days at a time, and she came home too late, but she always brought the trash barrels in."

Ok, so I know I am supposed to envision what I REALLY WANT people to say about me, but thinking about it like this...well, it just puts things in perspective. Mostly in the perspective that I need to spice up my life a little bit before I die, or no one will have anything interesting to say about me at my funeral.

Also, I Simpsonized myself. Here you go.