By Daniel Rigney
You may recall the popular 2007 movie, The Bucket List, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as two old codgers who draw up a list of experiences they want to enjoy before they check out of Hotel Life. Their list includes flying over the North Pole, riding motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, going on lion safari in Africa, and skydiving.
I’ve never made a bucket list of my own, but I've been working on a similar sort of list. I’m calling it my *ucket list, a term I've edited slightly in deference to readers whose sensibilities are more delicate than mine. I guess I could have called it the "F-list."
A(n) *ucket list is an itemized list of things we may have aspired to earlier in life, but which we now no longer desire or dream of attaining.
Here are ten erstwhile aspirations to which I now say (pardon my *rench) “*ucket!”
Now that I’ve drafted my preliminary *ucket list, I’ll have to get to work on my chucket list (things to throw out or recycle), my ducket list (onerous tasks to postpone), my yucket list (things to avoid at all costs), and perhaps eventually my bucket list.
What’s on your *ucketlist? To play the game, comment here if you're in Open Salon, or tweet an item or two at #ucketlist.
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You may recall the popular 2007 movie, The Bucket List, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as two old codgers who draw up a list of experiences they want to enjoy before they check out of Hotel Life. Their list includes flying over the North Pole, riding motorcycles on the Great Wall of China, going on lion safari in Africa, and skydiving.
I’ve never made a bucket list of my own, but I've been working on a similar sort of list. I’m calling it my *ucket list, a term I've edited slightly in deference to readers whose sensibilities are more delicate than mine. I guess I could have called it the "F-list."
A(n) *ucket list is an itemized list of things we may have aspired to earlier in life, but which we now no longer desire or dream of attaining.
Here are ten erstwhile aspirations to which I now say (pardon my *rench) “*ucket!”
1. 1. mastery of the social graces
2 2. pleasing everyone
3 3. achieving perfection of any kind
4 4. making a momentous discovery or cultural innovation
5. leaping from a great height, as from an airplane or diving platform
6 6. climbing a mountain – even a small one – except metaphorically
7 7. reading every important book ever written
8 8. visiting what used to be called the “Holy Lands”
9 9. keeping up with every new thing in popular culture, including
digital culture
10 10. achieving and sustaining thinhood
If
I never accomplish any of these things during my lifetime, I’ll be just
fine. So far, I’m on pace to achieve none of them. Say la vie, as the
Americans say.Now that I’ve drafted my preliminary *ucket list, I’ll have to get to work on my chucket list (things to throw out or recycle), my ducket list (onerous tasks to postpone), my yucket list (things to avoid at all costs), and perhaps eventually my bucket list.
What’s on your *ucketlist? To play the game, comment here if you're in Open Salon, or tweet an item or two at #ucketlist.
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:] since 2011
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