Bucket lists

Bucket lists

by SouthernFriedInfidel | Published on April 2nd, 2009, 7:06 am | Life

Yesterday, I was riding with a couple of co-workers back from a visit to another office, and the conversation got around to "bucket lists." You know -- big, thrilling things you'd love to accomplish some time before you die.

I got to thinking that I might have been able to make such a list once, many years ago. But the items I might have had then, I've done nearly all of them. Except for traveling into space. What sort of things might you put on your "bucket list"?

Now that you mention it, I've done most of mine... 'cept the twins thing... Oh well, time to blow my brains out. Gee, thanks SFI...

Well meeting Barrowman was one I made last year... I got within 5 feet of him... I'll say that's good enough for now. In fact I believe I stated... "my life's work is done here" afterwards.

Wrote a book... and it's almost done... as long as I don't die in the next few weeks I should be good... even then Shan can finish it.

Still want to go to Paris, Egypt, Russia... hell practically everywhere I haven't been... but I'm so grateful for the travels I've gotten to do.

I'd like to fly a plane.

I'd like to sky dive.

I'd like to run a marathon... (that'll be awhile)

I'm quite certain there's more....

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:... "bucket lists." You know -- big, thrilling things you'd love to accomplish some time before you die.

I don't have a bucket list. Every now and then, I might comment "I need to do that" or "I want to do that" or "That's another one for the list"... so I guess maybe (especially with as you say a "big, thrilling" thing) it's implied that I'm talking about doing something before I die. After all, if I don't aim to do it before I die, when the freck am I going to do it?

Bucket list - do you sincerely set out to do all the things on the list, or is it just wishful thinking? There's a lot of (expletive) I'd love to do, but the reality is I'll prolly never have the funds to do it.

Sanjuro wrote:Now that you mention it, I've done most of mine... 'cept the twins thing... Oh well, time to blow my brains out. Gee, thanks SFI...

This is similar to the statement that one co-worker said. She'd visited all 50 states, been to nearly all the national parks. She figures that she can die any time and not feel too bad about it.

I must say, however, that my personal list of things I'd like to accomplish in my lifetime have changed a few times over the years. Learning to scuba dive, I figured that the whole parachute business could safely be abandoned. I'd still love to get into space, or learn to fly an airplane, but having flown a few hundred thousand miles on commercial lines, I must say that flying hasn't got the charm for me that it once had.

I've written 2 complete novels and a memoir. Getting any of it published is something I'd like to do, but that dream has been crushed too often. Those items for my list are nearly as awful for me as "the twins thing." Oh well. :techie-offtheair:

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:... She'd visited all 50 states, been to nearly all the national parks. She figures that she can die any time and not feel too bad about it.

Hmm, maybe that's why I don't have a bucket list. When I die, I'm not going to feel bad about anything I didn't do because I'll be dead. The feeling bad is what others have when someone dies and they think "She never got to ____"

However, if I were diagnosed with an incurable illness and given an estimate of how much time I had left, I probably would come up with a bucket list and go for it.

I should say that one could approach death without many regrets. If you see it coming, you might waste time dwelling on things you wish you could have done. Just speculating.

I don't think I should attempt a "Bucket List" until AFTER I purchase a "Pot to Piss In" :lol:

Seriously, its a wonderful, Romantic (capital R mind you) ideal.
I am positive that any list I could come up with would very quickly get out of hand so I am happy with my alternate plan: When I 'kick the bucket', I will be happy to remember all the things that I did and/or accomplished in life. I never want to be the one on her death bed saying, "I wish I had..." I wanna be the one saying, "I remember the time I..."

Cheers to a great Monday everyone!

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