![]() I hope and pray that I will live another 25 years or so. I'll think some more about the criteria later, but now I'm moving forward to listing a few things that might make my bucket list. To be life enhancing, my bucket list needs to provide me with the opportunity to do something new, or rise to a new level of competence, or require some effort. Yes, there are lots of icons I want to paint, sweaters I'm dying to knit, meals I want to cook, home improvements I'm dying to make, but those are part of my to do list, and I know that I can accomplish those. My bucket list shouldn't devolve into a to do list, which is something completely different, at least in my mind. To enhance the quality of my life, they should provide me the satisfaction that only comes with a job well done, with doing something that requires some effort, but they should still be achievable. I think they should stretch me in some way. Whatever is on my list should really depend on me alone. Somehow, I think my old goal of finding Antonio Banderas naked in the back seat of my car would depend on him cooperating, if you get my drift, and his cooperation is pretty iffy, so that one is getting crossed off my list. Second, I think that the outcome should depend on me and me alone. Since I'm nearly retirement age without any real financial cushion, the items should be achievable financially, too, That year-long trip around the world with my daughter and besties which would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars will never happen, unless I hit the lottery, and I don't play the lottery, so that is simply not achievable, although more modest travel may be achievable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let's face it, I will never be an astronaut, or an opera singer, or a ballerina, because the basic physical requirements have always been lacking in this old body. What would my bucket list look like? What are the criteria?įirst, I think they should be achievable. Today, he was talking about his bucket list and that got me thinking. I read often read a blog written by a young man that has pithy thoughts about what constitutes a good quality of life. ![]()
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