I think it’s about time I created a bucket list. A list of activities I must accomplish before I kick the bucket, in order to know and be content that I have done all the things that I have wanted to, in my little life. Ever feel your days are passing by without any tangible output to speak of? Look at the things you did and the things you’re planning to do next – Do they mean anything to you if you are to die today?
I have been compiling this list for quite some time now, and I believe I now have enough things to have a long enough to-do list. I shall update this page as and when I need to, for varying reasons like completing a task (will strike out the task as I do so), finding a task to be impractical (will remove it from the list in such an event) or finding a new one to add. The sole reason for me to publish this list on my blog is to motivate myself (and maybe others) to get out of my comfort zone and experience something I may be able to look back at, say 10 years from then, and tell an amazing story.
So here goes (the order of the tasks is not important) :
1) Fly in a hot-air balloon across a country
2) Learn wine appreciation
3) Complete a solo sky dive
4) Climb a 5000m mountain
5) Run a marathon
6) Fly in a fighter jet
7) Bungee jump from the world’s highest tower
8) Be a certified paraglider [Dec 2010 - Kamshet, India]
9) Be a certified scuba diver [some way through]
10) Take my parents on an extravagant vacation abroad
11) Stay awake for 72 hours straight
12) Travel into space
13) Learn how to sail
14) Speak to an audience of hundreds (or possibly thousands) of people
15) Appear on television [Jan 2008 - Kharagpur, India] (was featured on a local television as part of a feature on the campus placements of my college)
16) Dress up in a costume party [April 2011 - Kharagpur, India]
17) Travel to Antarctica
18) Get a tattoo [June 2010 - Shanghai, China]
19) Trek through a rainforest
20) Build a tree house and live a day in it
21) Learn to operate firearms
22) Learn at least two forms of dancing
23) Complete a triathlon
24) Bury a time capsule with key memoirs in a secret location,and open it after 10 years
25) Get arrested
26) Drive a Formula One car
27) Play the guitar live, to an audience
28) Walk into a store, break something expensive intentionally and pay for it
29) Ask 10 complete strangers (girls), on the same day, out for a date
30) Drive on the German autobahn at 200kmph
31) Witness Halley’s Comet in 2061
32) Watch THE BIG 4, live in concert
Nice List. Some of the items are quite similar to mine. Mail me if you ever need someone to accompany you on any of these tasks
25 ftw ~
inspired me to create my own list
Wth is a 5000m mountain? The number is 8000.
Lets do the 11th one next sem.
since 8k cant be done directly without prior experience, figured its better to finish this off my list n thn add the 8k one.
we almost got the 25th one,that night…thanks to liquor!!
haha.. yeah
too gud hai bhai!!!
love a good bucket list, i might add learn how to sail to mine. such a good one
thnx
That’s quite a list! The only thing I’ve collected in my bucket is dirty water from the mop.
I consider every day to be a bucket list potential, I’m lucky to get the Macbook Pro started in the morning…
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Holy Crap! Great list Fred! The walking in the store and breaking something expensive, would probably be on my list as well; but where’s the fun in paying for it?!
Enjoyed the post though bud. And after just this first blog post, I’m totally a subscriber! Cheers mate!
thanks mate!
It must be Blog Bucket List week….
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