My Bucket List

I was at Wal-Mart today getting a few disposable cameras developed. As I was waiting for my photos, I did my shopping and browsed around once done. I stopped by the media section and saw a trailer for "The Bucket List" play on the TVs on display. The film is about two men who are facing and realizing their mortality, so they make a list of things they would like to do before they die. It made me wonder what my list would look like if I created one for myself, and it would possibly look something like this:

1. Go to Egypt to climb to the top of a pyramid to watch the sun rise and set.

2. Travel to Ireland to explore the country.

3. Visit Machu Pichu.

4. Swim with dophins.

5. Tour the Arctic Circle.

6. Tour Alaska.

7. Go white-water rafting.

8. Go deep sea diving.

9. Tour the Hebrides and Orkney Isles

10. Earn my M.A. in English (a more realistic life-goal).

11. Write a novel and get it published.

12. Stay a weekend in a haunted castle.

13. Learn how to play the harp.

14. Actually read Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" from start to finish. (I started the book a long time ago, but the book's pace is too slow for my liking...a perfect challenge for me)

15. Finally learn Algebra, understand it, retain what I've learned...all without having a nervous breakdown! (I'm horrible with math; my math anxiety is enough to make a psychiatrist see dollar signs for the amount of therapy I would require to overcome it.)

16. Learn the Gaelic language.

17. Ride the wildest rollercoasters in the U.S.

18. Learn to dance the Irish jig.

19. Learn how to play the bagpipes. (Boy, wouldn't my neighbors just love me!)

20. Take a cross-country hike across the U.S. from California to Maine.

21. Go storm chasing!

22. Go ghost-hunting.


What do you want to do in your lifetime?