What’s a bucket list?
Simply put it is a wish list of all the goals you want to achieve, dreams you want to fulfill and life-experiences you desire to experience before you die. The term is inspired by the movie “The Bucket List” (2007) about two terminally ill men (Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) who set off to achieve a list of things they want to do before they die.
Anyway, a few years ago I came across a website called My50.com and they provide a standard list of 50 items that could be on people’s bucket lists – the first list below are the 42 items from that list that I have already achieved:
- Watch the sun set and rise in one day (or night)
- Watch a cinema classic
- Visit Paris
- Visit a museum
- Tell someone you love them
- Take photos of your family and friends
- Take a walk in the rain
- Take a last minute city break
- Surprise someone
- Sleep under the stars
- Serenade someone
- See what’s happening in your community
- See the northern lights
- Sample foreign food
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Read a classic novel
- See the dawning of a new century
- Quit your job
- Phone in work sick and relax
- Pass on a nugget of knowledge
- Learn to swim
- Learn something new
- Know your neighbours
- Have a fun bet
- Have a food fight
- Have a favourite joke
- Grow something
- Go to the theatre
- Go to a sporting event
- Go to a concert
- Go outside and lie on the grass
- Go naked
- Give to charity
- Get tipsy with good company
- Find an old school friend
- Do a parachute jump
- Cook something
- Climb a mountain
- Become a parent
And of the remaining 8 I removed 3 as being something I don’t want to do which leaves 5:
- Christmas in New York
- Drive a McLaren F1
- Go horse riding
- Go scuba diving
- Visit Machu Pichu
What about you?
Have you got a bucket list?
Why not join me in creating one? I’m planning to create a more specific / personal one in the days and weeks to come and will also document it here.
