Have you
ever thought about making a "bucket list"? Are there secret dreams or
hopes that you have stifled or given up ever achieving? Do you have a passionate interest in
something that has of yet been pushed to "someday"?
I hope that
we have dreams, hopes and goals that we
have not yet achieved. But many of us are running in so many directions that we
don't take the time to consider even one option.
Is this
you?
The movie,
"The Bucket List," released in 2007, starred Jack Nicholson and
Morgan Freeman. The two were portrayed as two elderly, terminally ill men who
escaped from a Cancer treatment hospital to head off on a road trip to fulfill
a list of "to-dos" before they die. The film was a heart-warming and
message friendly story.
This
"bucket list" idea took off like wildfire in this country.
Eventually, the "bucket list" concept transitioned from applying just
to the aged to being pertinent to all ages.
Having said
all of this, I now find that creating a "bucket list" takes a great
deal of time and thought. It doesn't happen during the rush of our daily
lives. Maybe sometimes a desire can fall
on one during mind crowding moments. But, recognized and verbalized thoughts
and hopes take time to travel from the heart to the head, and then out the mouth.
Young
couples have dreams that are easy to list. A home of their own, a family
vacation to Disney World, a nice car, or a good job are only a few of their
goals and dreams. Then there are hopes
such as healing, restoration of marriages, world peace. But these are not what
I am referring to at this time. These
are prayerful and deep needs..
No, a
"bucket list" is a compilation of those things you want to see, hear,
touch, taste before your last days on earth.
Are you
dead yet? Are you in the grave? Then, you might want to consider that there
TRULY are a number of things you would like to do.
Amazon
sells a "Bucket List Journal" that offers to motivate and lead some
of us totally empty headed, dull souls who do not know where to begin. I tend
to be content and totally "que sera, sera", but that's not always an
interesting approach to life, now is it?
Here are
some of the leading items on Bucket Lists. Maybe now, you can get started and
use a few of these suggestions? I did not list them all here.
Please
don't let my comments discourage you. Go for it!
Take a road trip. (mmm. That's a no brainer.
But where?)
Hike down Grand Canyon . (I will need a back pack filled with
chocolates for that one)
Go
parachute jumping (Nah. I would die just standing there looking out the plane
door)
Go to Antarctica (Do you
suppose they have a Starbucks there?)
Celebrate
Mardi Gras in New Orleans .
(After about five minutes of that, I would probably say, "enough" )
Save a life
(Most of us already have done that! Our kids, for one thing!)
Stand in a
Prison cell in Alcatraz . (I have done that.
It's pretty stark)
Visit Berlin , explore Iceland ,
visit Croatia , visit Rome ,
Pet a
Penguin (Do they bite?)
Fly first
class. (My kids do that. We go coach!)
Visit Argentina 's Iguazu Falls
Climb Mt. Kilmanjaro
Stay in an
ice hotel in Sweden .
(Can you bring your electric blanket?)
Learn how
to ride a bike. (And attach a basket for your chocolate)
Kayak
through caves. ( not in Anarctica, I hope)
Am I
hopeless or what?
Any one can
lose his way and find that he has lost tomorrow because of the burdens of
today. So let's start listing what we want for tomorrow!
Something
wonderful happens inside when one re-thinks goals, writes them down, declares
them to others, prays about them, and looks forward to tomorrow.
This is not
a time to dwell on the negativity and hopelessness that seems to be permeating
our society. It's there. But this is the time to look up and look inward to
find those things that still call you/us to tomorrow.
I am
starting a new list today
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