About that bucket list?

[warren5421]

No bucket list, learned that when my first wife died at 39. She wanted to take our 4 year old son to Disney during Christmas, we did though I was laid off from work. She died the following March. I now believe that is you want something to do it if you can find a way. Don't put off things just because, find a way to do them, as there may be no tomorrow!

 

[M118LR]

Would like to see the Northern lights someday, but if I don’t, not the end of the world.

That was one of my sister's bucket items. Took her several attempts but she finally succeeded when she went to Iceland last year. Uncle Sam insured that the northern lights got checked off my bucket while I was just a teenager.

 

[stonebuster]

I don't feel the need for a bucket list and don't particularly like "to do" lists. I've lived a pretty full life and consider myself lucky to still be alive after some of the stunts I pulled in the distant past. I just would like to keep waking up in the morning and watching the sunrise and thanking God for another day on this earth. Aging has given me a deep appreciation for nature, the critters and how it all works together. It's one good thing about getting older(& not working). You can appreciate little things you were too busy to notice earlier in life.

 

[Teflon97116]

Now 70, I've checked quite a number of boxes.

Funny, most of those just happened even though they were never on any sort of official list.

Beyond my family:

- Hiked up Mt. Fuji
- Visited a dozen foreign countries
- Arrested felons
- Worked air traffic in the control tower at NAS Miramar at the peak of the Top Gun era
- Played rock guitar with my bar band onstage at the Paramount NW
- Photographed sharks in the Great Barrier Reef
- Performed two (secular) wedding ceremonies
- Spoke at a friend's memorial service (my Fuji pal)

All wholly unplanned things that just happened without ever being specific goals.

Sadly, as much as I still want to visit other countries, that proposition has become increasingly complicated, insanely expensive and downright dangerous.

I got to see a vaguely glowing neon sky two years ago, but I'm still hoping to see some legit, swirling northern lights. Fingers crossed.

 

[tazbigdog]

I went to my Senior Prom in HS. It was not on my bucket list, but no did have a hot GF back then. Bucket List, thanks to the movie, is not the end of life things to be done. I wanted to hike Angel’s Landing in Zion NP, but alas, that is not to be. I did things and went places that I always wanted to go. Live in the moment!

 

[gnappi]

I got my first 1911 in the 80's which was an all stainless Colt Government Model 1911 in .38 Super, and after tricking it out that pistol won me more than enough money to pay for my reloading and training to get me to an A class at the local IPSC and WSSA (steel challenge) clubs.

Later on I started shooting International skeet seriously and lost interest in handgun action sports and sold my sainted super, and ever since then I wanted an all stainless box stock Colt in super. I've had literally dozens of svelte 1911 patterned pistols but never stumbled onto a stainless Govt. Model to scratch my itch.

Despite the Govt. model's natural clickety clackety loose as a goose operation and over 100 year old user controls no other handgun could I call a "bucket list" scratch needing to be satisfied.

Then one day at a gun show some 7-8 years ago a dealer at a gun show had a brand new in box R-E-A-L-L-Y shop worn series 80 sample which after his abuse he couldn't sell and I finally got my bucket list filled.

Since getting it I've only replaced the stocks, bushing, and guide rod but I found and installed my original .38 Super barrel that I'd removed from that first super. Every single hammer drop makes me smile. I never thought I'd wax poetic about a firearm but despite all of its shortcomings it's one of my prized possessions :-)