Things to Do Before I Kick It

While browsing movies on Netflix, I came across The Bucket List, with Jack Nicholas. I am not a huge fan of Jack, so I've really had no desire to watch it. But after reading the description I've been contemplating the concept on which the movie is based. As I understand it, the whole movie is about how one of them is dying and he has a list of things to do before he kicks the bucket. I know it's more complicated than that, but that's the part I care about.

I googled the movie to learn more because I didn't feel like the description was telling me what i wanted to know about it, and I found an interesting pattern. There are all these websites cropping up where you can have your own little profile, and have your own list of things you want to do before you die. I'm not sure if they recognize the movie, or even if they started as a result of that movie, but I found them through an article about the movie. They all require you to join, even if they are free, and you get to create a profile, blah, blah, blah. (Topic for another blog: How many profiles on various random websites with all kinds of odd angles can a person create without going insane?)

I really don't have any interest in joining any of these websites. Some of the goals they showed on their home pages as samples I found very annoying. Apparently no one explained to these people that if you say something like "eat healthy," it's very hard to determine when you have reached the goal. You should say "eat 5 vegies a day," or "cut out sugar from my diet," or "I'm one of those nuts that thinks I can cut ALL carbs from my diet." To have a goal to "volunteer" before you die is kind of silly. You could pick up trash in a park for half an hour and technically have completed that goal. That wouldn't be so meaningful but you would have completed it. You need to put "volunteer at the food bank at least 4 hours a month for the next year." That you could measure. Or even to say "become an active volunteer for Camp Fire USA and win an award for it" would be measurable, even though "active" is kind of an ambiguous term.

So I am now working on a bucket list, which I will post. My goals will be be worded in such a way you will know when I have accomplished it. So, nice three people that post on my blog, what's on your bucket list?

(Ooh, ooh, first on my bucket list is to get a lurker to post. A lurker, for you blog challenged individuals, is someone who reads my blog who I don't know is reading because they never say a peep. You should peep.)