Do you have a realistic bucket list?

Bretrick

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Take a picture of a Numbat
Purchase an infrared motion activated camera.
Photograph the Aurora Australis
Visit my brother whom I have not seen or heard from in 32 years.
Attend Carlton Football Club's next AFL grand final victory
 

Just a thought... A bucket list is something we aspire to do sometime somewhere probably in the future , usually when you're young you mark out these things to do before you get old or die.. .

May I ask how come you're not doing these realistic things now.. :D
 

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I was fortunate during my career to visit Asia, Europe, Australia, South America, the Caribbean and Canada. Not all are all continents, I know. I would visit them again in a heartbeat, but my bucket list continent is Africa. We almost traveled to Capetown, but my mother was ill and we canceled the trip. We will get there at some point.
 
No list except for catching up on things I had to cancel because of Covid. I prefer to be more spontaneous and just see what turns up.

"Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say" - from "Time" by Pink Floyd.
 
Just a thought... A bucket list is something we aspire to do sometime somewhere probably in the future , usually when you're young you mark out these things to do before you get old or die.. .

May I ask how come you're not doing these realistic things now.. :D
I still work so time is a factor.
The Numbat is extremely rare and as such I need to spend time in the bush to hopefully see and photograph one.
I spent a week in the bush last year and never saw one.
I am in the process of purchasing the photographic equipment.
I am a long way from the limits of the Aurora Australis, once again, time needs to be allocated.
I hope to visit my brother on the other side of Australia once travel restrictions have been abolished.
Carlton last won the Premiership in 1995 and there is nothing to say that they will win their next one in the coming decade.
 
I use a "bucket list" (I don't call it that) to run my life.

I keep a list of 120 things that I want to do, accomplish, own, whatever. When I get one done, I cross it off and add something else. I try to cross one off per month. So it's basically a 10 year to-do list.

So, I crossed off "swim 100 miles in a year" and replaced it with "swim 150 miles in a year" (which I hope to do this year).

I crossed off "learn to play bridge" and replaced it with "learn more about math and chemistry".

When I turn 70 next year, I will keep crossing them off, but I won't add any more items. No time!

These aren't all things I have control over. For example, "become a grandparent" was on my list. That happened this year, but I can't take much credit for it.

It's just a way of adding a little focus and purpose to an otherwise humdrum existence.
 
I never had a bucket list and it is too late for me to write a new list.
I feel pretty much the same, don't really have a new list but one thing I'm hoping for is that I end up in a skilled nursing facility whose employees aren't all Boomer-haters. I hadn't realized 'till I started spending more & more time on the internet (and running into one IRL in a face-to-face book club I used to attend) how many people younger than we Boomers hate us. As one said I saw online the other day, "I wish every single Boomer would drop dead; they ruined our planet!" And since people who never had kids like me are the most destined to spend at least some time in a nursing home, I have to say I'm dreading it.
 
I feel that if I used a bucket list to "run my life", I would have missed out so many other things that I could never have imagined doing. No, I'll just make the most of the opportunities that present themselves to me.


Focusing on things you want to accomplish doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. The two aren't mutually exclusive. In fact they support each other.

Most people sit around without a plan or purpose and then wonder where all the time went.
 
JimBob, things may not be mutually exclusive, but apart from a few major goals, I've not been one to spend much time focusing on what I think I would like. Rather I tend to try things and see where they take me.
 
JimBob, things may not be mutually exclusive, but apart from a few major goals, I've not been one to spend much time focusing on what I think I would like. Rather I tend to try things and see where they take me.


Whatever suits you. I'm a lazy, introverted person, so I need "the list" to encourage me to do things.
 

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