Do you have a Bucket List?
I made one for myself some years ago but I am ashamed to admit that I don't even know where it is. Truthfully I am pretty sure that I have made more than one. Would I be pleased or disappointed by what I have done compared to what I set out to do? Perhaps I will gather up the courage to seek out my lists and do a mental inventory. Perhaps I won't. I like the concept of a bucket list but not the idea of using it as some kind of scorecard.
"I did all the things I set out to do by the time I was 30, so A+ for me."
Or
"Why can't I seem to get any of the things done that I say I want to do F-"
and so on.
Don't get me wrong I think that it is important to think about the new experiences that we would like to have. In college I just knew that I had to see the Parthenon before I died. But now it is not so important so F- on that one I guess. Still trying new things is part of what keeps us alive and interested in the world around us. But I don't want to have a list of all the places that I will never be able to visit or worse yet a pitiful list of two or three things.
1) Hot Air Balloon Ride
2) Zip Lining
3) I guess I have to go with 2 for now :-)
It's not that I don't want to do these two things I am just not sure that I want to think of them in terms of yes or no, good or bad, I did it or I didn't do it. It is pretty weird for me to say this because, normally, I love lists. I love checking the box or crossing off the item to say look at me yes I did accomplish this. Yea! I really am proud of myself for picking up the dog poop and doing the laundry!
I guess that my problem with a bucket list is that it seems to be about things in the distant future and the older I get the more I want to draw things in to the here and now. Why have a list of things that you want to do someday? Why not have a list of things that you try to do every day?
And so I give you my slightly non-traditional bucket list of how I want to try to live my life.
Happy Upcycling,
