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Title: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: mythociate on January 28, 2014, 06:26:35 am
(I don't like writing this-big (size 18), but this is the size the smileys fit to  :silly: )

You know a 'bucket-list' is "a list of things one would like to do before one dies."

I don't think it's "necessary," but 'bucket-list' is a good label for one to categorize 'things one-does not have to do but -would like to be able to say they did once.' (I thought of adding 'truthfully' in there, but  ;) thought better of it)

We have various 'to do'-lists in life: there's the 'schooling'-list: go to school, get a job, go to more school, get a better job (whatever keeps you 'swimming in formation');

Then there's the 'education'-list (or the enlightened 'education'-list) which one makes when one has stepped back & seen what 'schooling' is for: sort of a business-plan, I guess; when one sets about "educing" (taking-in what is given & formulating it to create something new).

I think I'm working through an 'education'-list with some strange materials: mixing the schooling 'they' call "education" with the experience of death-by-brain-injury & 'life anyway' (i.e. using the med-industry as little as possible, living on charity & a menial settlement from the man who killed me). And it looks like that list is going to end (the way I imagine the 'schooling'- & the other 'education'-lists end) with the entry of ... something peaceful-ish, like 'making-do forever.'

(Or is that 'making-due'?... "The Gambler, he broke-even" ... I forget :-\ )

A bucket-list is for someone who believes in death ... I think I'd rather call it a 'once in a lifetime'-list ("lifetime" being relative ... for some, it's 'all the time you have'; for me & others, it's 'an entire phase in your life, one which you can't tell how you got here-from').

I say: Treat a 'bucket list' like you treat the receipt from a fast-food joint (when you don't have to 'count' it as a business-expense) ... look at it (keeping it if you think you can use it ... sometimes they put coupons or online-surveys on those) & throw it away when you're finished with it.

(And tell the grandkids-etc. that you've done ALL THAT STUFF
 whether you have or not ... the imagination far out-does real
-life anyway!)
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: sak4kat on January 30, 2014, 05:50:26 am
Bucket-lists always make me think of people giving up.  Any story I've heard in reference to bucket-lists is of a person who has been told they have some illness that's incurable so they all of a sudden get this idea in there head that they need to fit a lifetime of dreams, tasks and even wishes.  Nay, I don't think they are necessary - I think if you work hard for your goals when the time comes what was important to you may already had been lived out.  We'll see if I feel the same if I'm ever told I have only X amount of time left.... ultimately that's not for me or anyone else to decide though.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: mythociate on January 30, 2014, 01:03:55 pm
Bucket-lists always make me think of people giving up.  Any story I've heard in reference to bucket-lists is of a person who has been told they have some illness that's incurable so they all of a sudden get this idea in there head that they need to fit a lifetime of dreams, tasks and even wishes.  Nay, I don't think they are necessary - I think if you work hard for your goals when the time comes what was important to you may already had been lived out.  We'll see if I feel the same if I'm ever told I have only X amount of time left.... ultimately that's not for me or anyone else to decide though.

Right! I'd rather have my bucket-list be 'a list of things I'm glad I DID do in my life!'
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: ro901 on January 30, 2014, 01:26:05 pm
It's no more necessary than crossword puzzles. It's just something people do to inspire themselves to live another day or year. Gives them something to live for I guess.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: tantricia44 on January 31, 2014, 09:55:58 pm
I would like make one but I always end up losing it! Lol, I just found my high school bucket list!Looking @it I'm thinking was I that stupid?!!!!!
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: mythociate on February 01, 2014, 11:59:07 am
I would like make one but I always end up losing it! Lol, I just found my high school bucket list!Looking @it I'm thinking was I that stupid?!!!!!

Is that 'things you wanted to do before you got out of high-school'?

Makes me wonder how they thought of 'kicking the bucket' ... maybe because that's one of the ways people hanged themselves?
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: mardukblood2009 on February 01, 2014, 07:43:54 pm
Buckets list are for people who screwed their lives up and never really did anything in their whole life. They think
that when they retire, they can squeeze in everything before they die. What I am saying, think ahead you can't have
everything. :moneymouth: :moneymouth:
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: bud1 on February 02, 2014, 05:16:46 pm
I live  everyday  like  it  is my last day on earth. 
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: mythociate on February 10, 2014, 02:24:57 pm
I live  everyday  like  it  is my last day on earth. 

That sounds like the thinking of the FOOLISH brides who used up their lamp-oil & were unable to join the Groom because their lamps wouldn't stay lit.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: king4cash on February 24, 2014, 07:40:10 am
Here is mine;

o Kiss the Blarney stone and go everywhere in Ireland<333
o Discover the loch ness monster!
o Touch a Tiger
o Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring
o Adopt an accent for an entire day.
o Take a long road trip with friends
o Climb a tall tree all the way to the top
o Put on and act in a stage performance
o Write my own play.
o See the northern lights.
o Fast (intake nothing but water) for 72 hours
o Be on TV
o Connect with all your teachers from your past schools – college, high school, junior high, all of it. Let them know how they have shaped your life.
o Climb a mountain
o Experience sunset and sunrise
o Start a social movement on a cause you believe in
o Bury the hatchet with all the enemies / people you had conflict with in the past or now
o Do something completely crazy and out of character
o Fly first class
o See the Mona Lisa in Louvre (Paris)
o Swim with sharks
o Go to Jamaica and eat a coconut with a Jamaican with an accent and sing with a Eulalie
o Get eyebrow pierced
o Bake a bagel from scratch
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: Shandara09 on February 26, 2014, 11:29:06 am
I don't see anything wrong with the term bucket list.  I haven't officially written out a bucket list, but I've made a few mental ones.  I don't think there's anything wrong with having one, it's just another way to dream about things you'd like to do, whether it be in the near or distant future.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: o2bnocn on March 02, 2014, 09:13:41 am
I wrote down things that I would like to do in my life but I wouldn't necessarily call it a bucket list. It was more pleasure / leisurely things than anything.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: short4love on March 02, 2014, 11:58:35 am
You don't have to have a bucket list, just live life.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: BMaston12 on March 03, 2014, 08:17:30 am
Bucket-lists always make me think of people giving up.  Any story I've heard in reference to bucket-lists is of a person who has been told they have some illness that's incurable so they all of a sudden get this idea in there head that they need to fit a lifetime of dreams, tasks and even wishes.  Nay, I don't think they are necessary - I think if you work hard for your goals when the time comes what was important to you may already had been lived out.  We'll see if I feel the same if I'm ever told I have only X amount of time left.... ultimately that's not for me or anyone else to decide though.
After losing my husband to cancer, I wish he had a bucket-list. We did not get to do many things together before he passed. I will make that different with myself. If I know that I am dying, I will definitely be doing things until I drop dead. Hospitals just keep you hanging on to false hope and spending you money with them. That time should be left up to you how you want to spend it. Mine won't be in a hospital!
BMaston12
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: msmoneybags48 on March 03, 2014, 10:01:43 am
I personally believe that everyone has a list of things they plan to do before they leave this world.  I have a list of things I have always wanted to do, but calling it a bucket list is a reminder of what I want to do.  Earning a degree is one thing I wanted to do.  I have completed it, although I owe the school now.  I want to see my degrees in hand, so finding a job is paramount. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :rainbow:
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: Lindaroof on March 04, 2014, 06:48:39 pm
I think some people just like to read their own posts! Bucket List's may not seem important to some, but to others they mean the world, so live and let live.  ;D
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: tfw6693 on March 07, 2014, 09:32:47 am
 :) No need for a bucket list. Live life the best you can and let everything else "play itself out."  :) some things are just not meant to be.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: meg0694 on March 14, 2014, 08:37:49 am
I don't really think I will have a bucket list.  I don't want any pressure to have to complete something.  I will do it as I want and can.   :)
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: ladavia89 on March 22, 2014, 12:25:22 pm
I think most people have some sort of list of  things they would like to do regardless of what they call it or if it's just in their head or actually written down
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: kristalie on March 29, 2014, 08:37:03 am
Huh? Who ever said it was necessary? It's not a to do list, it's a list of dreams you have basically.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: sarabtrayior on September 04, 2014, 06:28:56 am
I don't do anything on any list, If I want to go skydiving, I'll go skydiving, but I don't need some bucket list to do it...
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: stretch1967 on September 07, 2014, 11:01:37 am
It is all up to you. Choices or wants are for each individual to decide
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: mgint on October 20, 2014, 05:54:49 am
I don't see anything wrong with it just something to remind you do the important things you always wanted to do.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: freedomcash11 on October 26, 2014, 05:47:49 pm
Interesting, I haven't though about it that much.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: tzs on October 31, 2014, 08:45:57 pm
Just depends on the person.  I don't have one, cause I tend to think way too grandiose about things like that, which kinda makes any list unattainable.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: sarabtrayior on November 01, 2014, 08:44:44 am
No. A Bucket list is good if you plan on dying within a year and you want to get those things done before you die...
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: sarabtrayior on December 05, 2014, 03:32:45 pm
I think life is a "bucket list," you get to do everything you want when you want it...
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: tylerbreister on December 08, 2014, 07:58:46 am
i dont know... i want to do a lot but a list isnt necessary
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: gkaps on December 28, 2014, 03:56:19 am
It's not necessary but it's fun!
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: kewl4reals on December 28, 2014, 01:53:05 pm
(I don't like writing this-big (size 18), but this is the size the smileys fit to  :silly: )

You know a 'bucket-list' is "a list of things one would like to do before one dies."

I don't think it's "necessary," but 'bucket-list' is a good label for one to categorize 'things one-does not have to do but -would like to be able to say they did once.' (I thought of adding 'truthfully' in there, but  ;) thought better of it)

We have various 'to do'-lists in life: there's the 'schooling'-list: go to school, get a job, go to more school, get a better job (whatever keeps you 'swimming in formation');

Then there's the 'education'-list (or the enlightened 'education'-list) which one makes when one has stepped back & seen what 'schooling' is for: sort of a business-plan, I guess; when one sets about "educing" (taking-in what is given & formulating it to create something new).

I think I'm working through an 'education'-list with some strange materials: mixing the schooling 'they' call "education" with the experience of death-by-brain-injury & 'life anyway' (i.e. using the med-industry as little as possible, living on charity & a menial settlement from the man who killed me). And it looks like that list is going to end (the way I imagine the 'schooling'- & the other 'education'-lists end) with the entry of ... something peaceful-ish, like 'making-do forever.'

(Or is that 'making-due'?... "The Gambler, he broke-even" ... I forget :-\ )

A bucket-list is for someone who believes in death ... I think I'd rather call it a 'once in a lifetime'-list ("lifetime" being relative ... for some, it's 'all the time you have'; for me & others, it's 'an entire phase in your life, one which you can't tell how you got here-from').

I say: Treat a 'bucket list' like you treat the receipt from a fast-food joint (when you don't have to 'count' it as a business-expense) ... look at it (keeping it if you think you can use it ... sometimes they put coupons or online-surveys on those) & throw it away when you're finished with it.

(And tell the grandkids-etc. that you've done ALL THAT STUFF
 whether you have or not ... the imagination far out-does real
-life anyway!)
                        NO I THINK  PEOPLE  SHOULDLIVE    DAY  TO DAY  NOT  WORRY OVER RO STRESS OVER THE FUTURE
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: ro901 on December 29, 2014, 06:49:18 am
Whoever said it was necessary? It's just a list of things you want to do before you die.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: gsdoss on December 29, 2014, 06:52:04 am
For me it gives me ideas out of the box.When I retired and my health was bad,I have other things to look forward to do and stop thinking about how bad I feel.
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: minioncookies on December 31, 2014, 01:09:16 pm
Its kinda of a waste of time if you fail at doing what you have on the list
Title: Re: Is a Bucket-List Really Necessary?
Post by: ancmetro on January 03, 2015, 02:31:59 pm
  Organize your life because no one else is going to do it for you. A "Bucket List" is a must!... if you want to let others know your last wishes.