Bucket List

Spider

Have you got one?

I don't but the wife has just decided to make one, do you want to do something before you leave this world? Do you want to leave an indelible mark on the planet before you go?

Or do you just want to lay some laminate flooring and dig an old boat out of some mud, both noble quests I might add.

Add your lists, it might give someone some inspiration. 

Phil_aka_Pip

I think that if people wanted to leave it as clean & tidy as they found it, or more so, it would help. I'm not sure indelible marks are an improvement.

Why is it called a "bucket list"? Nothing to do with Connor is it?

octatonic

It means 'before I kick the bucket I want to do....'.

Spider

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Why is it called a "bucket list"? Nothing to do with Connor is it?

No, nothing to do with Connor, I think it's so called as it's a list of things to do before you kick the bucket, an there was a film called Bucket List with that story line.

Phil_aka_Pip

Fanx. You can tell I'm not a film buff

Col_Decker

Bucket lists are for people who have lots of money and no kids. I just want to be able to pay the bills

 

 

or something

octatonic

Col_Decker said:

Bucket lists are for people who have lots of money and no kids. I just want to be able to pay the bills

or something

But being a parent is just the bestest best thing ever, isn't it?

(Yes, I don't have kids).

Col_Decker

Fuck me I'm a grumpy cnut ain't I? Ignor me. Berty can I come and sit by you?

snakemanStoo

I've got a big bucket, a medium sized bucket, but I do need a small bucket.

Or in list form:

Big bucket

Medium sized

happy meal

Phil_aka_Pip

If I had a "bucket list" it was somewhat materialistic in that it involved doing something with something that I own. For example ride around on a big british twin (done, I had a Norton Commando), play a real Gibson LP through a 100W Marshall stack (done, still got 'em), listen to Focus Camel etc EllPees on a decent valve hifi (done,still got em).

I always wanted to have a proper vinyl EllPee out with my music on it (composed and played) but that has never happened and probably isn't likely to.

CabbageCat

I think when I'm lying on my deathbed I will either be too heavily medicated or too f*cking terrified to worry about whether I swam with the goats at Cordoba or whatever.

Spider

I'd like to find a cure for whatever it is I'm dying from.

mike_l

i did mine when i first got crohns. nothing major, have another season of playing rugby (docs told me i wouldnt), actually play guitar in front of others, be the best person i could be.

bertie

my bucket list is  "cram as many healthy days as possible in between now, and then"

monquixote

I don't have a conventional bucket list 

My aspirations in life aren't really of the "Swimming with dolphins", "See the Taj Mahal" type because they seem more like things you do so you can put them on a list, or have an anecdote that makes you seem more interesting rather than things that would actually enrich your life on a day to day basis. 

If I were to list my genuine life aspirations they would be as follows:

* To be a good husband and have a successful marriage for the rest of my life

* To be a good dad to my daughter and make sure she grows up well adjusted

* To not have to worry about money (i.e. never be afraid of how I was going to pay the gas bill)

* To enjoy the job I do and be recognised for the work I put it.

* To have some kind of musical outlet where I get to play with decent musicians

* To own my own house 

* To have another child

I'm sure some people will look down on me for how twee and seemingly unambitious my aspirations are, but a few years ago when I felt like I was drowning in debt and my life was going nowhere the possibility of owning my own house, or being able to afford a child seemed very remote indeed and those goals that I have achieved bring me happiness every day. 

This is of course not to say that I wouldn't like to own a 63 Strat, or go to space should the opportunity arise, but it won't really make me feel any differently about my life if I don't.

I do sometimes wonder if the number of people who now aspire to be a celebrity, or similar contributes to the increasing levels of unhappiness in the country. 

Spider

^ Very well put sir.

Myranda

I find the idea quite morbid - do some stuff before you die... not while you're alive, but while you're waiting for the icy hand of the grim reaper to firmly grasps the wispy tendrils of your soul and drags you to your eternal slumber.

No one writes a "I'm alive and going to enjoy every day" list.

Of course given the capitalist world we're in and a lot of enjoyable things cost money - you have to be rich to do that... so perhaps a "I really fancy doing some stuff when I can afford to" list... no it's always with the implication of imminent demise... 

axisus

A bucket list? That really is beyond the pail

Phil_aka_Pip

Myranda said:

I find the idea quite morbid - do some stuff before you die... not while you're alive, but while you're waiting for the icy hand of the grim reaper to firmly grasps the wispy tendrils of your soul and drags you to your eternal slumber.

No one writes a "I'm alive and going to enjoy every day" list.

Of course given the capitalist world we're in and a lot of enjoyable things cost money - you have to be rich to do that... so perhaps a "I really fancy doing some stuff when I can afford to" list... no it's always with the implication of imminent demise... 

in the case of riding around on a big motorbike your last clause could be quite apposite

johnnyurq

@monquixote

Not twee at all and I reckon it is rather refreshing these days, wisdom duly given. Money and ambition aren't all that.

Most (thankfully not all) younger folks seem only to aspire to reality TV and Gareth Bale type wealth. Nothing wrong with being aspirational and a hound for the pound, just not to the exclusion of the rest of life and pissing on other people.

What happened to doing things to try and be the best at a sport or whatever, money it seems has replaced pride.

No bucket list for me just like @bertie said to be healthy and reasonably happy for as many of the intervening years as possible.

Myranda

But bucket lists are always expensive things

"swim with dolphins" is almost always on the list near the top - well until they start swimming off the cost of skegness it's going to cost money to do this - more money than many have access to... 

There's also little sense of personal achievement in such actions... whats wrong with some sort of goal? Like punch the most politicians? Or cunning the most linguists in a single lifetime (though I suspect Gene Simmons has beaten you to this already - unless you develop some sort of time travel to get more in)