I was looking at the blogs of two postcrossing members – Ana (list) and Patsy (list) and saw they both had projects going on doing stuff from a list and how they were going with those goals. I liked the idea of a list which had no time limit and so decided to copy it with a few slight alterations to make it my own. Some of the things I will never achieve as I am approaching the last third of my life and lack of money will preclude me from travelling overseas (how wrong was this prediction, saved up for 11 months and went to Germany and the Netherlands with a day trip to Belgium for 3 weeks in Nov/Dec 2011).
This is my bucket list:
Things I have already done and can tick off the list are in red.
- Start your own blog (I also started a Bulletin Board Service – BBS in the years before the internet – 2nd female sysop in Australia)
- Go camping and sleep under the stars
- Learn to play a musical instrument
- Holiday on a tropical island
- Make a wish on a shooting star
- Give 1% of your income to charity
- Go to Disneyland/world
- Climb a mountain
- Hold a praying mantis, a spider or a snake
- Stay overnight in the desert
- Bungee jump or parasail
- Visit Paris and see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
- Watch a lightning storm at sea
- Teach yourself an art/craft from scratch (taught myself to knit when I was pregnant with my 1st child. Taught myself to sew clothes for me and the children. Taught myself how to cross-stitch and embroider)
- Walk to the top of the Uluru/Ayres Rock
- Grow your own vegetables
- Give a speech or presentation in front of a live audience (gave many speeches/presentations when Vice President of the Diabetic Association of SA)
- Sleep on an overnight train
- Go backpacking
- Have a pillow fight
- Travel solo (went to New Zealand for 13 days and Europe for 3 weeks on my own)
- Take a sick day when you’re not ill (in the days when I actually got paid to work and not self-employed)
- Tell someone you love them when they haven’t said it first (and he laughed at me and we drifted apart)
- Help bring a life into this world – puppies, kittens, babies anything! (3 children count)
- Go skinny dipping (last time I did this was within the last 10 years)
- See the northern or southern lights
- Try surfing
- Ride in a gondola in Venice
- See a total eclipse
- Get up to watch a sunrise
- Pursue a dream (went to Germany and the Netherlands to meet online friends)
- See one of the great waterfalls in person – Victoria, Niagara, Iguazu
- Visit the birthplace of your ancestors
- See how a traditional indigenous community live
- Do a spur of the moment Random Act of Kindness (many)
- Decide you have enough money to be truly satisfied
- Go rock climbing or abseiling
- See Michelangelo’s David in Italy
- Sing karaoke
- Participate in a demonstration or some form of social/political activism (Hindmarsh Island ferry operators sacking protest.)
- Buy a stranger a meal
- Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- Walk on a beach by moonlight
- Make love somewhere you could get caught
- Be transported in an ambulance
- Break the law (well nothing jailable but would have been big fines if caught)
- Do something you know is reckless
- Get your portrait drawn/painted/photographed
- Go to the ends of the earth
- See the Sistine Chapel in person
- Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
- Go scuba diving or snorkeling
- Come face to face with real poverty and don’t look away
- Kiss in the rain
- Play in the mud
- Fall in love
- Have your heart broken
- Get married (2 times and might as well be a third for the length of time we have been together now)
- Have children (3 )
- Buy your own home (3 times)
- Go to a drive-in theater
- Appear on television or in a movie (TV when I was 5 years old)
- Visit the Great Wall of China
- Start your own business
- Take a martial arts class
- Visit Europe (visited Germany, Netherlands and Belgium in Nov/Dec 2011)
- Volunteer to help the needy
- Stand on a street corner and sell badges for charity
- Go dolphin or whale watching
- Buy someone flowers for no reason
- Donate blood, platelets or plasma
- Go sky diving
- Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp
- Fly in a helicopter
- Save a favourite childhood toy (have my teddy and my papier-mache 1950’s french doll)
- See the Pope, the Dalai Llama or another religious head (does being on first name basis and having meals with a Bishop count?)
- Eat Caviar
- Stand in Times Square
- See a monkey, tiger or another exotic animal in the wild
- Get fired from a job
- See the Berlin wall
- Break a bone
- Drive a car over 150 km an hour
- See the Grand Canyon in the USA
- Get a book published
- Visit the Vatican
- See the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
- Buy a brand new car
- Walk in Jerusalem
- Have your picture in the newspaper (Australia Day Award presentation)
- Read the Bible or the Koran or another religious text in full
- Visit the Australian Parliment House
- Kill and prepare an animal for eating (we used to buy sheep on the hoof for $1.50 a sheep and slaughter them in the back yard and then freeze the cut up portions)
- Save someone’s life (did this for 7 years on a daily basis. Injected several times a day, my youngest son, with insulin to keep him alive)
- Sit on a jury
- Confront your fears
- Admit to someone you lied or made a big mistake
- See the Pyramids of Egypt
- Swim in the Dead Sea
- Visit every state in Australia