Not sure if 'Bucket list' is a dictionary word for a list, but this is a movie title staring Jack Nicholson and Morgan freeman who play two cancer patents counting their last days, they decide not to spend the rest of their life in the hospital but go ahead and enjoy life by completing the list of item that they feel they should do before they die, the 'Bucket List'.
Makes me wonder if everyone of us knew when we would die would the world be any different, would we try to make the most of it? Would we worry less or worry more about life. I am not sure how that would work but what do you think a typical ‘Bucket list’ of a common man would look like. Will the list have need to have a $ Billion bank balance (whatz the use in having a bank balance when u r gone) or will it have things like I want to spend few days in the Himalayas or a cruise to Antarctica, letting my imagination run wild.. but what would you want to do if you knew that you just have another year to live?
Will it make sense to take your life one year at a time and just live it, you will never know which one would be your last year. You would at least live your life the way you want it.
I think death being uncertain, and since no one knows when we would be gone takes away a lot from your life. I just sat at home this weekend working on something and did nothing, not sure if I would have wasted my time if I knew this is my last month.
Do you think it would make sense to know your last day on earth, if yes what would you do knowing the answer?
With 6 Billion population on earth not everyone of us are going to make a name for ourselves, that generation to come would remember (Not me definitely, figured it out late :)) then is there a purpose for which all of us are hanging around?
Is there a meaning to our lives that we are searching for, itz a tricky question do we live our life to find a meaning or we just live our life because we are born and we need to sustain and look better than others (That is the only purpose i can think of)
Well as I sit back and wonder without any answers to any of my questions, I am still not sure if it makes sense to have a yearly bucket list of what to do, life is uncertain as it is anyway.. you will never know which one of your bucket list would get lucky to be THE 'Bucket List'.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
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2 comments:
hmm... pretty heavy thoughts for a first post!
what's in your list b4 u kick the bucket ? i'd be happy to accompany you, if you sponsor me like Edward did for carter in the movie. (I could help you out !)
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