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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.
Just a quick one – will try to remember to post a picture later …
Anyway, last Saturday the children and I attained our 7th Gup in Tang Soo Do. In terms of belt colours we are still Orange belt but now it has a green stripe on it.The big boss (Master Trudgill) tried to put a downer on everyone though by telling us all that only 1, maybe 2 in every 100 that starts Tang Soo Do will give it up before they attain their black belt. Not the best way to promote the art I guess – but it isn’t stopping us
Unfortunately towards the end of the grading my right knee tried to stop me by, so I’m now told, over-extending and causing me great pain. The physio tells me today that it isn’t that severe but a few weeks rest won’t go amiss.
Tang Soo.
[Later]
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Well … not really.
Last night was the family (aka Jenna, Coel and myself) jaunt to our Tang Soo Do lesson.
Towards the end it saw all three of us sat on the side for one reason or another which caused Ma’am to ask us if “we were on a family vacation” – the funny thing being is that we’d just come back from one and that possibly didn’t help.
Some context though …
Jenna was the first one sidelined. She was exhausted and physically couldn’t stand. But then she had also been in a school swimming gala that morning, then done an hour of ballet practice in the afternoon and finally ended up in the steaming hot gym hall that is our Tang Soo Do class.
Next to fail was myself. My excuse – 12hrs straight in work before heading down the gym and not enough food or fluids inside me. After a particularly brutal, lets mangle the senses type exercise my head went spinning and if I didn’t lie down I’d be passing out.
Finally, Coel who’d also been in the same swimming gala was doing fine when a freak slip with his partner caused the kick pad to glance his left eye and he couldn’t see out of it.
So lessons learned:
- Ensure you are well fed and hydrated before exercising on a hot day in a hot gym.
- Ensure you haven’t already indulged in several hours of exercise beforehand.
- Pay attention at all times.
Have you ever felt like you’re on vacation when you should be ‘up and at them’?
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