How Much Have You Lived? - Bucket List
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You've probably heard of them: bucket lists.
A bucket list, according to Wikipedia, is:
A list of activities someone wants to dobefore he or she dies
Most bucket lists are composed of wonderful goals, fun or creative things that you might want to do in your life before you die. Some people really take this to heart, spending thousands of dollars crossing off all items on their list.
But if you are a regular person, then you might find that many of those items are difficult to achieve, if not completely unrealistic. You might notice that you can't cross off all that much.
It might leave you feeling like you really haven't done much with your life.
This list is here to prove to you that you have in fact done a lot!
Read down the items below, and just keep count of how much you have done! Not all items are great, because not all life experiences are great, but they are a part of life and shape us into who we are.
If there's something you want to achieve at some point in the future, write it down on your own personal bucket list.
Feel free to add your own items in the comments below!
The list...
- See the Mona Lisa
- Learn to meditate
- Tell someone they are important to me
- Bury the hatchet with someone you had a conflict with in the past
- Learn to knit or crochet
- Make a friend in another country
- Go to Disneyland
- Climb a rope to the top
- Design something
- Do 20 push-ups in a row
- Learn to read sheet music
- Learn to pronounce a tongue-twister
- Find classical music you love
- Solve a Rubik's Cube
- Get up before sunset 5 days in a row
- Get a source of passive income
- Invest in something
- Create your family tree
- Start a tradition
- Learn to juggle
- Go to the sauna
- Take a retour trip on a plane on the same day
- Learn to do a handstand
- Be able to do a split
- Learn to mix a cocktail
- Learn to code something
- Make a youtube playlist
- Take a trip by yourself
- Have a BBQ
- Save a human life
- Save an animal life
- Build a sandcastle
- Build a gingerbread house
- Learn how to shoot a gun
- Try out vegetarianism for at least 3 weeks
- Have a baby
- Comfort someone when they cry
- Go to Africa
- Watch a sports game
- Buy your own home
- Stay up all night
- Celebrate new year's eve
- Knit a scarf
- Lose
- Win
- Dance in the rain
- Laugh in the rain
- Work in a different country
- Publish a book
- Surprise someone
- Wear something you made yourself
- Stay overnight in a hospital
- Take a selfie
- Go snorkeling / scuba-diving
- Get my driver's license
- Hate snow
- Sleep on someone's couch
- Marry someone
- Go into therapy
- Have a favorite color
- Live in an apartment
- Get a car
- Read Shakespeare
- Bake a cake
- Teach someone else something new
- Live through four different seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall
- Go on a diet
- Sleep outside
- Swim in the ocean
- Cry your eyes out
- Participate in a contest
- Play chess
- Fly in a plane
- Write a book
- Be unable to stop laughing
- Take a bus
- See snow
- Take a class for no particular reason
- Watch all movies of the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit or Harry Potter
- Watch all Star Wars movies
- Take a trip on a boat
- Read at least 5 classic novels
- Write a story
- Volunteer
- Get a broken heart
- Sing when others could hear me
- Sleep in nature
- Watch a documentary
- Make your own meal
- Donate blood
- Get dumped
- See someone die
- Take an unexpected trip
- Act on stage or on tv/film
- Travel to another continent
- See one of the modern Wonders of the World
- Get a tan
- Have a picnic
- Take a class on wine tasting
- Get a ticket
- Lose a pet
- Go to the ballet
- Laugh so hard your sides hurt
- Give a compliment to someone you know
- Work in customer service
- Eat something you grew yourself
- Stay in a hostel
- Read a fictional novel
- Celebrate a holiday
- Fall in love
- Knit or crochet something
- Redecorate your home
- Travel to another country on your continent
- Go to Ikea
- Love a documentary
- Learn to draw
- Meet the love of my life
- Love a pet
- Go skiing
- See a celebrity in their daily lives
- Go to a concert
- Experience live classical music
- Meet a celebrity
- Try a different profession
- Go to a festival
- Memorize a poem
- Go to the opera
- Love snow
- Approach a stranger and strike up a conversation
- Befriend a complete stranger (not known to anyone I know)
- Live alone
- Play in snow
- Plant a tree and watch it grow
- Change my job
- Handwrite a letter to someone
- Go to Asia
- Get a makeover
- Experience a sunrise/sunset
- Be proud of something
- Plant a seed and watch it grow
- Discover your own recipe
- Spend an entire day cleaning
- Finish high school
- Finish college/university
- Finish another degree
- Take a dance class
- Rent an apartment
- Get angry
- Try a different life style (eg. live in a trailer/declutter/live green/...)
- Find something to wear which I love
- Go to starbucks
- Sleep on the grass
- Run to catch a train
- Learn sign language
- Divorce someone
- Learn martial arts
- Get yelled at
- Be happy with what I saw in the mirror
- See someone give birth
- Achieve my ideal weight
- Get a degree beyond high school
- Read a non-fiction book
- Do something you fear
- Get something pierced
- Work behind a till
- Sleep all day
- Learn to play an instrument
- Travel by train
- Give a compliment to a stranger
- Sing karaoke
- Make a friend
- Witness a solar eclipse
- Take up a new sport
- Read a book on poetry
- Visit a museum
- Read Lovecraft
- Go to Australia
- Get a pet
- Be in an ambulance
- Get engaged
- Climb a tree
- Read Edgar Allan Poe
- Bingewatch a tv show
- Play in the mud
- Stay in a hotel by yourself
- Get completely soaked by the rain
- Be a fan of someone
- Go on a road trip
- Go to South America
- Get a tattoo
- Laugh in the rain
- Travel alone
- Visit a castle
- Go on a blind date
- Live in a house
- Dress up
- Try veganism for 3 weeks
- Fly a kite
- Get hugged
- Swim in a river or lake
- Experience a sunrise/sunset on the beach
- Fly in a hot-air balloon
- Stay home all day
- Earn money with something you wrote
- Learn to ride a bicycle
- Ride a roller coaster
- Donate money
- Take a class (outside of school)
- Do something kind for a stranger
- Join a cause you believe in
- Go to Europe
- Understand the basics behind E=mc²
- Really understand evolution
- Go to North America
- Throw a party
- Learn a second language
- Go stargazing
- Appreciate the scents of nature
- Learn to type blind
- Appreciate the sounds of nature
- Go to Asia
- Take a chance
- Be a fan of something
- Learn 10 quotes by heart
- Finish a book you hate
Poll
How many items have you already achieved?
