Sentence of Dave: Bucket List: 1) Make a Bucket List

One of my students-- a senior-- recommended to the class that they make a "bucket list," and she reminded them that it didn't have to consist of extraordinary accomplishments and events (summit Mount Everest, win a Nobel prize, circumnavigate the globe, etc.) but could instead be fairly mundane (see the sun rise over the ocean before attending school) and then I polled the class and it turned out that about half the students had "bucket lists" of things they wanted to accomplish; I was in the no-bucket list group and I'm wondering if I should be concerned about this-- maybe I need to focus on some specific goals in order to achieve more in my life; I'd like to finish recording my album and I have some vague ideas for a sci-fi novel, perhaps if I put them on a bucket-list, then I'll work harder on them . . . but two things does not a list make, so I'll be taking suggestions for other things to put on this hypothetical list and then I will post it and then I will accomplish everything on the list . . . or maybe I won't (I did accomplish one specific goal a few years ago: I ate more tacos).

4 comments:

ClarenceMay 31, 2015 at 2:01 PM
Make a bucket list of all the things you have already accomplished. Drive cross country, hit a wiffle ball into the Continental Divide, eat a Coney, get a tattoo over another tattoo, play guitar in a band that gets college radio airtime, see the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, read 1.000,000 books, etc.
DaveMay 31, 2015 at 2:23 PM
that's a great idea! it's sort of what i said to my class-- i'm very happy with my life, although i would like to visit the pacific northwest sometime soon (or anywhere that isn't as hot and humid as jersey right now).
robMay 31, 2015 at 8:48 PM
four words: world body topiary champion
RogerMay 31, 2015 at 11:38 PM
Don't make a bucket list, IMHO. You can't do everything. Just focus on the few things you want to accomplish when you're alive (family/friends, etc.) and do those repeatedly and with focus.