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No, we're not talking about the movie here. But the film has inspired my daughter's journalism teacher to have the kids compile their own Bucket List. Great idea, right? Let's define it as the things you'd want to make sure you accomplish before you die, if you knew you'd be gone in a year.

Here's mine, not necessarily in order:

1. Scale a mountain.
2. Kickbox.
3. Spend lots of time with autistic kids.
4. Buy real estate in different areas for my kids/my estate.
5. Write the novel I swore to write when I was a kid.
6. Go visit my brother in Scottsdale.
7. Find my childhood friends and visit them just to say hello.
8. Fund my girls' college.
9. Visit Alaska and the Greek Isles.

That's all I can think of right now, so I reserve the right to amend and add.

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Cynthetiq

Look back on this thread 1 year from now and see if what you've crossed off your list.

If you haven't seen the movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, it is a good screening about terminally ill cancer patients who make a list to complete before they die in 6 months. It was much better than I had anticipated.

1. Go to the Southern Hemisphere (South America or Australia)
2. Laugh on top of a mountain.
3. See the family portrait c. 1984 at Ellis Island.
4. Take a tour on the Circle Line of Manhattan.
5. Help someone directly who I don't know at all.
6. Have a dinner party at our house where I cook all the food.
7. Celebrate my birthday like I never have.
8. Reconnect with an old friend.
9. Perform a magic trick for my nephews.

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Glory's Sun

1. DJ alongside Dieselboy at some club in Ibiza
2. See my kids grow up and not be fuckups
3. Figure out exactly just what the fuck is going on at least half the time
4. Play ball at Fenway Park
5. Move somewhere completely random on a whim

kurty[B]

1. Pedal-bike across North America. Bonus if my son wants to join me on this trip.
2. Hike Mt. Kilimanjaro (currently making plans to accomplish this goal this year)
3. Finish College (at least a Bachelor's)
4. Physically attend a Uruguayan World Cup Futbol match (this would require Uruguay to qualify, and for me to make it there)
5. Own a home outright (no debt associated with the home ownership)
6. Strip an 80's VW Cabriolet down to the frame and rebuild it
7. Become proficient at conversational Spanish

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PonyPotato

Haven't seen the movie, but here's my (incomplete) list:

1. See the Grand Canyon. And Yellowstone. And the Channeled Scablands.
2. Stand with one foot in the Northern Hemisphere and one in the Southern Hemisphere (i.e. visit the equator).
3. Ride a real reining pattern on a good horse.
4. Ride in a 3-day event.
5. Get my degree (in March!) and possibly go to graduate school.
6. Visit my family in the UK or Germany at least once every five years. (Included in this: learn all of their names.)
7. Move away from Ohio.
8. Learn how to snowboard.
9. Add at least one item to this list every year.. or just when I feel like it.

These are primarily short-term goals. Long-terms, there's the additional "get married, have a kid or two, raise them well, have a house and a barn with a couple of horses, plenty of pets, get old, and know the one I love still wants to talk to me when we're old, wrinkly, and wearing suspenders in rocking chairs on our front porch."

Dreams. I have lots of them.

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ShaniFaye

I think you mean Morgan Freeman, not Danny glover

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Cynthetiq

Oy! that's correct...

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ShaniFaye

My list

1. Visit Scotland
2. Have sex in a field of heather with Dave (requires doing #1)
3. Participate in a real archaeological dig
4. go to the Smithsonian
5. Write a best selling romance novel (on the level with Outlander)

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PonyPotato

Archaeology is one of the most interesting things I've ever done. This is a good goal to have.. you learn a lot, even if you don't necessarily find much. You also meet some interesting people. What do you mean by "real," though? Academic? A dig where you're guaranteed to find something? Have to ask.

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ShaniFaye

no, I dont have to guaranteed to find anything lol I said it that way to keep someone from coming back and telling me that I could dig in their back yard for bones of a long lost pet lol

I love to keep up with earth watch and see the digs they have going on with that....I wish I could afford to do one....maybe one day

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Plan9

"Only for a moment... and the moment's gone..."

- Marriage, house, kid(s), debt, cats, dog, gray hair, wrinkles.
- Academic achievements like getting my masters, doctorate.
- Swiss Army Human training stuff. Essentially becoming MacGyver.
- Physical achievements like running a martial arts, marathons, mountain climbing.
- Cross country (US) trip on a motorcycle with a good camera.
- Feel like another human being fully understands who I am.
- Get my brain onto paper in at least one short book.
- To die without regrets for those things in which I attempted yet failed.

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dwayne4200

1. Lean how to play amazing grace on the bag pipes
2. Sky dive
3. Threesome
4. Get my MBA
5. Start up a business (Fail or Succeed)

World's King

Own my own 5 Star restaurant.
Marry a girl that understands me and helps me with my goals (And likes to give head like a porn star while I watch Basketball)
Have two kids. Son: Sean Mykl King (After me) Daughter: Brooklyn Moon King
Travel nonstop for five years
Pay back my mom all the money she lent me. (Or buy her a house. Whichever is cheaper.)
Punch Bryan Adams in the crotch

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Willravel

1) Stop killing hookers
2) Bring about a massive victory in the area of civil rights
3) Place above 20th in the Le Mans in a car I built that runs on saltwater
4) Base jump
5) Fight a shark (maybe this should go last)
6) Win a Grammy for "Album of the Year" with an album of 100% original classical pieces, beating pop artists
7) Rewrite the dialogue from all 6 Star Wars films with Kevin Smith and, at gunpoint, force George Lucas to reshoot all of them with my dialogue
8) Meet Edward James Olmos and have something to say to him that impresses him
9) Donate $50,000 to TFP
10) Find Crompsin a girlfriend
11) Send Ustwo a bottle the cheapest single malt scotch I can find
12) Read roachboy's journal until it makes sense (it took a 20 minute conversation for me to get the name of his journal)
13) Wrestle George W. Bush and the loser has to publicly admit to and apologize for all of his mistakes

Plan9

Find and not buy, right?

I better not get any ominous crate from www.RealDoll.com (NSFW) on my doorstep.

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Dammitall

I made a bucket list in college for my now-dead website. It's interesting for me to compare the list I made back then with the one that's come together more recently. These two lists are not mutually exclusive.

The college-era "someday I will..." bucket list: (* = done)

1. abandon technology for a while
2. adopt a dog*
3. audition for a conservatory
4. be on time for everything
5. become a teacher
6. build a treehouse
7. break the law
8. buy a drumset
9. compose a haiku*
10. cook a seven-course meal
11. count to a million
12. cure my apathy
13. do a cartwheel
14. donate blood
15. drink a margarita*
16. drive cross-country
17. eat a pomegranate*
18. fly a kite*
19. finish what I've started
20. fire a gun* (thanks, Crompsin!)
21. go skinnydipping*
22. have a daughter
23. hike the Appalachian Trail
24. host my own radio show*
25. howl at the moon*
26. kill this website*
27. learn American Sign Language
28. let my students call me by my first name
29. love my job
30. make snowmen and sandcastles
31. marry the love of my life
32. master the art of kissing
33. meet all you internet people*
34. misspell my name
35. navigate whitewater in a kayak
36. paint my shoes
37. pee in a sink
38. perform in Carnegie Hall
39. play an electric violin
40. publish a book
41. read a dictionary
42. ride a motorcycle*
43. see the Northern Lights
44. shave my head*
45. sing in public
46. sleep in a hammock*
47. speak French
48. stop traffic
49. survive a tornado
50. swim with dolphins
51. swing on a vine
52. take up photography
53. taste escargot*
54. tattoo my body
55. throw a football*
56. touch a wild bird*
57. tour the British Isles
58. walk barefoot in Africa
59. wear a tuxedo
60. wield a sword
61. witness a birth and a death*
62. write a song

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My contemporary bucket list:

- Harness my temper
- Express my frustrations, instead of holding them in
- Quit being a TV/internet vegetable
- Make better use of my time overall
- Eat clean (cut out processed foods)
- Bench, squat and deadlift my bodyweight
- Master the unassisted pullup and dip
- Increase sprinting speed, throwing speed & strength, and improve running stamina
- Learn to drive stick shift
- Be financially stable and comfortable
- Spend less/buy less/waste less
- Downsize my material posessions
- Turn the house into a "home" with remodeling and redecorating
- Keep it clean and organized on a regular basis
- Read more books (yes, there's a list of those)
- Write more
- Draw more (take art classes)
- Play more music (learn the Shostakovich, Sibelius and Tchaikowsky violin concertos, all movements from Bach's unaccompanied sonatas and partitas and the Fauré violin sonata)
- Learn/get trained in web programming languages
- Learn Flash
- Redesign and relaunch my website as a creative outlet, repository for my written work and design portfolio, and job marketability tool
- Create a database of every piece of music I've ever played and put it on my website
- Spend more time outside doing things I love and things I've never done but want to try (cycling, hiking, downhill skiing, snowshoeing, rock climbing, kayaking, backpacking/camping, softball, tennis, frisbee)
- Get trained in martial arts/self-defense
- Upgrade my bicycle
- Participate in a cyclocross racing event
- Walk the Old Main Line right of way
- Travel to the Western United States, Alaska, Greece, the British Isles, Austria, Australia and New Zealand
- Change my career significantly at least once or twice

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savmesom11

1. Marry the love of my life in front of my two beautiful children.
2. Travel to Scotland, Poland, Spain, Africa, and Amsterdam.
3. Learn to ballroom dance.
4. Run a marathon.
5. Have my writing published somewhere.
6. Hear someone say: You saved my life or You changed my life for the better.
7. Be the mother of my loves children.
8. Start private therapy practice.
9. Learn to play the piano.
10. Have sex with a woman.

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hagatha

--dance all night at a club in Berlin
--learn German
--visit Yellowstone National Park in the winter
--unravel the lies in my ancestry

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Tully Mars

Wow, some of these are really long. Other's short and to the point. If we're ever going to vote on most impressive- my vote goes to "Will Travel." Anytime I read a post that makes me laugh so hard my dogs start running around the house trying to figure out what going on is impressive in my book.

I've sort of had a running list in my head for years. Most of it's been done now.

What's left currently:

Visit Antarctica (completes a goal of hitting all the continents)
Learn another language (currently slowly making progress at Spanish)
Sail around the world solo.
Learn to kite board
Spend a summer in both Italy and Chile

These, I'm hoping, are all attainable. I do have one last one but I just don't see Cameron Diaz making herself available. I also had learn the guitar on my list at one point but at the request of my neighbors, my dogs and my neighbor's dogs I removed it.

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Esoteric

Visit Europe
Have a threesome with 2 women (yeah, yeah)
Skydive
Learn Spanish (I'm Puerto Rican ffs)
Learn to ride a motorcycle
Fire an assault rifle

Hmmm..can't really think of anything else. I'll add more if I think of anything.

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Made a date with Divinity, but she wouldn't let me fuck
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ngdawg

With few personal exceptions, I'm doing or have done what I set out to do at one time or another.
Maybe see Ireland and Scotland...travel the US with no time or obligatory restrictions would probably be it for the list.

little_tippler

1. Become a professional artist and be able to live from art
2. Be in a band that gets to play fun, relaxed gigs from time to time and write my own songs for it...and all of the band members are good friends with me and each other.
3. Record an album with said band and have a composer I respect say they really love my work.
4. Open my own art gallery
5. Be an art gallery director and well-respected art collector
6. Be in a professional musical in the lead female role
7. Learn to surf well
8. Learn to dance Salsa like nobody's business
9. Atract a man who really loves who I am and gets me (and doesn't eventually leave), and that I love and get equally.
10. Have a couple of kids who grow up to be wonderful, affectionate, healthy people
11. Travel to all the places I want to go but have never been to yet (New Zealand, USA, Argentina, Italy..)
12. Learn to play the piano and the guitar really well
13. Go white-water rafting
14. Finish paying for my house

I'm sure there's more, just hasn't come to me yet!

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918