Your bucket list

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Gori the Grey

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How many items are on your bucket list?

If you like, feel free to share what they are, or what some of them are.

I'm prompted to ask because of a post I just made on another thread, in which I indicated that I have only one item on my bucket list (going to a little-light-polluted spot and gazing at the night sky). I think that's odd, to have just one item on a bucket list. It's just that I'm an already-pretty-contented person.

So how 'bout you?
 
I have no bucket list. Never been much of a "to do list" kind of guy.
 
There are times when I consider writing up a bucket list but then realize that this would be fairly pointless based on what I know about myself.

To do an activity for the sake of doing it feels valueless to me, so unless this bucket list is a part of a greater scheme for my life it would likely be a rather pointless affair.

It does not help that when I think about what I would want on a bucket list, it usually ends up being goals or achievements. "Growing old with the love of my life" isn't so much as a bucket list entry than it is a desired outcome for my existence. I mean, I guess I could scribble "go skydiving" on it but... I don't really see a perceptible gain to my life were I to go skydiving for the sake of skydiving.

I'm sure I'm just not "getting it".
 
Vincour said:
There are times when I consider writing up a bucket list but then realize that this would be fairly pointless based on what I know about myself.

To do an activity for the sake of doing it feels valueless to me, so unless this bucket list is a part of a greater scheme for my life it would likely be a rather pointless affair.

It does not help that when I think about what I would want on a bucket list, it usually ends up being goals or achievements. "Growing old with the love of my life" isn't so much as a bucket list entry than it is a desired outcome for my existence. I mean, I guess I could scribble "go skydiving" on it but... I don't really see a perceptible gain to my life were I to go skydiving for the sake of skydiving.

I'm sure I'm just not "getting it".
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Yeah, it's only certain kinds of things that go on a bucket list, I guess. I don't think they're activities done just for the sake of doing them; I think they go on the list because you really want to do them. But they have to be fairly discrete activities--not, as you say, slow-burn commitments like growing old with the person you love.

But that's why I consider my one-item bucket list weird. I understand people like you and Tim who don't have one. I used to think of myself as someone who didn't have one. Then I realized that I want to do this thing--gaze at an unpolluted night sky--and it hit me, that's the kind of thing people put on their bucket lists.

So now I have a one-item bucket list. Which is kind of absurd. Either don't have one. Or have a list. Is something with only one item on it a list?
 
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Does anyone know where that phrase came from?
 
my bucket list:
-Do Stuff
-Do other Stuff
 
I had one before the phrase was even coined. One item was to see Halley's Comet.

So much for that. 1986 had really poor viewing, and I couldn't tell if I was looking at the comet or a cloud or imagining the whole thing - unlike Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp, which were both very clear.

I won't live long enough to see it come around again, so that's that.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
I had one before the phrase was even coined. One item was to see Halley's Comet.

So much for that. 1986 had really poor viewing, and I couldn't tell if I was looking at the comet or a cloud or imagining the whole thing - unlike Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp, which were both very clear.

I won't live long enough to see it come around again, so that's that.
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I think I missed some once-in-a-lifetime astronomical phenomena while I was taking an astronomy course
 
Well, formally it's "live forever or die trying". I still find it to be a plausible goal.

But as far as the theme goes, I'd really wanted to swim the Great Coral Reef. I've lost that opportunity in any normal horizon I might have. And so it's with a true wistfulness when I read updates on the devastation from climate change that might take it away from me permanently.

I'd also wanted to vacation in Cuba. When I was a kid, it was presented in my life as 'something rich people did'. But when I lived in Nova Scotia (in Maritimes Canada), nearly everyone had gone. Even people really low on the income scale! But I still kinda wanna.

I'd also wanted to vacation in Tanzania. I've known a handful of people who went. And all of them were ... changed ... when they got back. And this is independently of each other. Some newfound Zen.
 
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