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What's on your "bucket list?"
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Posted about 1 month ago I finally saw the movie Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman and loved it. I really had not thought much about a Bucket List (things you want to do before you leave this earth) until the movie. Because of the movie, I have now created one. What's on your bucket list? |
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| Posted about 1 month ago 1.Write a novel (not necessarily the Great American Novel, but that'd be OK, too.) 2. Go on an Alaskan cruise with my wife. 3. Raft down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon (I'm afraid my wife would sit this one out.) 4. Run a marathon when I'm 80. 5. Visit (with my wife) Antarctica and South America (the only two continents I haven't been to yet.)
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| Posted about 1 month ago I didn't see the movie yet but for me I guess it would be: Adopt a child Be a successful business owner Invent/discover something so spectacular it will put me on the map and on Easy St. Travel around the world Become a computer expert in Bill Gate's mind. Buy two homes next to each other and connect them together so that if my kids come to visit, it will seem like they're not even around. Oh yeah John you just reminded me: Write a childrens book
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| Posted about 1 month ago johnslat says ...
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| Posted about 1 month ago bobblehead says ...
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| Posted about 1 month ago I encourage my students to develop a "life" list (vs 'death/bucket' list but same idea). It really does make you think. I have completed most of mine but as I do I add new ones. Some examples: Invented something (have a patent) just owned by a coproration and not making me rich. Learned to fly. Got a seaplane rating. Wrote a children's book (not published). and many others. Fabulous actors and cried like a baby throught the movie. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Teachnologist says ...
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| Posted about 1 month ago 1. Go to India 2. Come back from India |
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| Posted about 1 month ago MisterD says ...
I actually wrote a couple of children's books...my kids said they suck! |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Dear Deven, I hope you get to do both. India is a fantastic land, one that it would take weeks or months just to see SOME of its treasures. However, let me warn you - if you are empathetic, India can wear you down. Especially in the big cities, there is SO much poverty and need that it will break your heart at least a dozen times a day. And when you go sightseeing there, you can expect to be besieged by beggars, so take plenty of change and small bills.
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| Posted about 1 month ago For some reason, this topic had me contemplating for quite some time. I mentally made a list; deleted to-do's, put to-dos's back on, took them off...don't know why I'm making it so difficult. I guess it's scary. What if to-do's don't happen? If I don't make a list, I just promised myself to live life to the fullest so that when I'm old (won't state an age)
I will not have NOT ONE SINGLE regret!
1. No regrets. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Dear apple4blea,
If you'll cut and paste the site below, you'll be able to hear and see your theme song:
http://www.dailymotion.com/rated/INDIEN94/video/xbmy2_edith-piaf-non-je-ne-regrette-rien_music
Non, je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf |
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| Posted about 1 month ago bobblehead says ...
Too Funny! Try some more independent reviewers. :)
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| Posted about 1 month ago Dear kschase46,
"12. Write the Great American Novel 13. Read the Great American Novel"
I'll read yours if you'll read mine.
Regards, John
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| Posted about 1 month ago applebea said... 1. No regrets. This pretty much sums it up for me. Good answer! |
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| Posted about 1 month ago johnslat says ...
Thanks for the advice. I had actually planned to go to India last summer and did lots of research, so I am aware of everything you say. I had planned to be there for a month, but I was not able to go then. Perhaps next summer. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago 1. Go to London 2. Go to Paris 3. See my grandchildren (since my children are still under 10, I hope to have some time) 4. Learn something totally new 5. Make amends to those I may have done wrong, intentionally or otherwise. A witty woman is a treasure; a witty Beauty is a power.
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| Posted about 1 month ago apple4blea says ...
I concur. No regrets! |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Go to Machu Picchu. Dance the Salsa well. Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef. Tour Italy. Get my pilots license. Ride in a hot air balloon. Go on an Alaskan Cruise. See the Galapagos Islands. Just writing "visit the world" would work, but it's too broad. An unrealistic one: Go into outer space.
John, I'll take that rafting trip with you if you'll go to Macchu Picchu with me! Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. ~ Sitting Bull |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Dear Sandra, Done - I almost put Machu Picchu on my list, but decided to go general with South America. And, another coincidence: I was going to put "outer space" on mine, but then I thought, "Get real - you're 65 years old." But I'd blast off in a heartbeat. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago say:
exciting huh c",) I like most: Go into outer space. is it okay if I will also go rafting with you? c",) |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Dear Joyz, Sure thing - the more, the merrier. We can take turns sitting up front. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago Johnslat says:
Sounds real fun!!! when this will be? c",)
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| Posted about 1 month ago I don't have one yet, but I should start working on it. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago ITeachtheabcs says ...
Does this mean making a bucket list is the first item on your bucket list? |
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| Posted about 1 month ago John, I´ve got pretty much the same list! Luckily, I´m currently finishing one of my biggest dreams, which was to go to Santiago, Chile. When you come to South America, you won´t be disappointed, because it is beautiful. Besides all the ones John wrote down, I also have: 1. Learn a Foreign Language (I´m working on that while I´m here in Chile. Two birds with one stone!) 2. Write a song 3. Read the complete works of C.S. Lewis 4. Go to Andalusia, Spain (The "hometown" of Santiago from The Alchemist, which is one of the greatest books of all time.) 5. Ride in a hot-air balloon 6. Ride a horse at full-speed (like how they do it in the movies) 7. Run in the Boston Marathon 8. Be a great older brother 9. Frame a house 10. Build my own road bike I´ve got some others, but I save those just for myself. "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. " -T.E. Lawrence |
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| Posted about 1 month ago I will let you in on a few of mine.
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| Posted about 1 month ago Raidermathteacher says ...
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| Posted about 1 month ago Dear Raidermathteacher, Being a geezer has its advantages.
I've already done Numbers 1 (Arabic), 2 (if lyric poetry counts), 3, 5 (at the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Festival), 6 (in Saudi Arabia - and a camel, too, at full-speed), and 7 (in 1963, when I was living in Boston. It took me 4 hours and 20 minutes, but I finished.) |
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