We can chose to live life in anticipation of the end. However, to me that seems as though we are anticipating a long and full life. I would rather check items off my list, as though it is the last thing I check off. Hell, some of those things just might be the last thing, i.e., skydiving.
You can have your “Bucket List”. I however refuse to put my list in a bucket, it’s hard to see, who knows what you will pull out when you reach into the bucket, and some of those things might be forgotten, if they are hiding in a bucket.
My “Life List” is:
- Become an army helicopter pilot
- Drive truck for a few years (yeah, it went long)
- Get my pilots license
- Scuba dive
- Swim in the ocean on both coasts
- Bungie jump (twice)
- See Old Faithful
- Build my own computer
- Own a plane and or helicopter
- Skydiving – yes, I will jump out of a perfectly good airplane
- Not the one I am flying however
- Unless there is another pilot in the cockpit
- Resume scuba diving
- Dive a shipwreck
- Swim with something cool (Barracudas?)
- Have a pint in the Guinness brewery
- Golf a course in Scotland
- Publish a best seller
- Travel – see things from a different perspective than a semi-truck
- The world
- Most of this country
- Get fired into space (might be a generation too early for this)
- Snowboard the mountains out west
- Witness my sons become fulfilled adults
- See and hike in the Grand Canyon
…and so much more!