A good life or the right life?

So I was reading this book and one of the lines was something like "Am I living a good life or the right life?".  Huh, funny how a simple sentence can strike a person.  The woman in the book was choosing between her career and following her heart to marry a man who was in love with her.  The time period was around 1900 and her employer would not allow the women that worked for him to get married.  

She ended up choosing marriage and love over her career.  

I suppose our choices are a little more complex, or so we make them seem that way.  There are some people who don't even appreciate the fact that they HAVE choices.  They go through life going along with whatever comes their way.  Reacting instead of creating.  

It's no secret to most people who know me that I have an actual written Bucket List.  Yes, indeed.  I started it a few years ago when my parents were ill.  You see, my parents worked hard all their lives mostly getting by living paycheck to paycheck.  I suppose they had things they wanted to do "some day" or "after retirement".  They both fell ill shortly after they retired and never really got to do what they wanted to do.  Mom and Dad likely would have said they had a "good life" or a "decent life" but was it the "right life"?  

I have a pretty good life.  Decent job, reasonably nice house, good friends, good health, and so on.  But is it the "right life"?  Am I - or are you - doing what you WANT to do so you live your "right life"?  Do you have goals?  Do you have a plan?  Do you have a bucket list?  If YOU don't have a plan, I guarantee someone else will make a plan FOR you.  

I blogged about this at the "other place" when I was rambling on about what to do for my 50th birthday which is coming up in a couple of years.  Someone suggested looking at the bucket list and choosing, say, three things to accomplish that year which is a great plan.  

A good life or the right life?  I hope to figure that out.....