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9 Years Ago
Who would have guessed that a slogan from a mediocre hollywood movie would have become the phenomenon that it has ... Before the bucket list it was what I called the" chasing of experience" ... but what is it this bucket list? Back in the day when it was about "experience" I would say " I was never one to go chasing experience but that doesn't mean it'd didn't have any trouble chasing me".. my personal cognitive work I avoid the bucket list idea thinking its a trap for regret, but it must serve others in some way.. in the movie he has an actual list on paper, anyone have an actual list?
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9 Years Ago
I think the movie was named for the phrase which had already become very common. I actually liked the movie.
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I had never heard the phrase used before the movie, Does anyone have any information on that?
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I use to have a list that I did after having seen the movie but it has since fallen by the wayside. The number one thing I wanted is still #1 but all the rest have changed.
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In 2004, the term was used—perhaps for the first time?—in the context of things to do before one kicks the bucket (a phrase in use since at least 1785) in the book Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E. Panky, by Patrick M. Carlisle. That work includes the sentences, “So, anyway, a Great Man, in his querulous twilight years, who doesn’t want to go gently into that blacky black night. He wants to cut loose, dance on the razor’s edge, pry the lid off his bucket list!”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/11/09/bucket_list_what_s_the_origin_of_the_term_.html
9 Years Ago
I look at it as a "things to do" list. Only had one item on it, and that was to respond to a thread concerning bucket lists. My list is now complete. :)
9 Years Ago
I haven't seen the movie, but I understand the concept. Funny thing is, I'm no happier after I've attained everything on my bucket list than before. Now what? I think that might be the opposite of "trap for regret." Kind of like, "be careful what you wish for." I believe that for me, the key to happiness is the journey, not the destination. Bucket list items can be rather anti-climatic (except maybe if somebody dropped a trip to Rome in my lap).
9 Years Ago
Thanks Abbie but it never was a pop phrase before that correct?
Well Fran, what is it?
Glad you feel complete now Gragg
Patricia who needs a list to go to Rome, I've been there a few times, it was wonderful
9 Years Ago
I am not sure of when I became aware of the term but it seems to me it was common enough before the movie. which I never did see. I don't like the way it is used now, which is just a list of things you want to do in your life. That's not a bucket list. A bucket list is something you make when you know you are going to kick the bucket soon. So you are forced to prioritize. And long term goals no longer matter. You don't have to save money for anything and you can run up the credit card.
9 Years Ago
Hi Robert,
My hope is to release all the negative plugs of the past, and be fully present in the moment. I think real satisfaction awaits there.
9 Years Ago
i never cared for that movie all that much, partly because i was forced to watch it on a very long trip to the grand canyon. but mostly it was kind of boring and i don't like the actors in it all that much. as far as a list goes, i don't have one. usually it's filled with things i would never do anyway. and often filled with things that would cause you to die.
---Mike Savad
9 Years Ago
I do some dangerous things but I'm cautious and calculated trying not to over estimate my ability or underestimate the situation....
9 Years Ago
I think of it as a list of "hope to do before I die" which could be tomorrow for all we know. My #1 is to go to Ankor Wat in Cambodia. Don't see that happening anytime soon or ever really, hence it's on my bucket list.
9 Years Ago
I have no bucket list....I have vowed, however, to make the most of each day and be open to what it affords me.
So, put me on the "it's all about the journey" list. I paint the same way...all process. A good result is a bonus.
9 Years Ago
I'm on the same page as you Marlene
Fran this may sound trite but if you imagine yourself there without doubt it can happen, things just fall out of the sky sometimes
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Thank you for the encouragement Robert. I'm a big believer in fate / destiny - I think I'm meant to be a poor, humble, human. I will visualize the sky falling with a big windfall :-)
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if it counts for anything, i have a number of buckets. a few of them are boxes.
---Mike Savad
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yeah, that last one is in some box some place on a deep, deep shelf, under a pile of buckets.
---Mike Savad
9 Years Ago
you just had to mention Dan!
Donna and I were planning on heading up to Sedona together this spring.. we made plans and G-d laughed.
That's the problem for me with a list.
Maybe in the fall.
9 Years Ago
Go up there Marlene, Dan is a great guy and loves to hike..Penny and I also hiked with him, I was in Sedona last month but the weather drove us out so I didn't hook up with him..We ran down to Roosevelt Lake where it was warmer and the desert was in bloom..it was gorgeous
9 Years Ago
I have a long list of things I wish to photograph before I die. It is my photographer's bucket list....
Karen Wiles
http://karen-wiles.artistwebsites.com
9 Years Ago
Dan and I have been buds for years....I used to go up to Sedona once a month to check on my galleries, but I pulled my work out years ago when I moved down to Tucson and haven't been back since.
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I used to have a bucket list but everything always got put off until 'next year'. On 2010 "Next year" became this year. Now there isn't much of anything left on it except for the Canadian Rockies and that will be next year.
Selling enough photos to keep going might go on it now too.
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So back to the bucket list, it made more sense to me when Bradford explained it's original meaning as the list you make when you know death is near.,
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Couple years ago I went through a very sad time due to something that happened that I had no control over. I allowed myself to wallow for a bit then started to think of what I could do to pull myself out of the funk because life is too short to feel that bad. I'm old but I still have plenty of life in me and there were lots of places I wanted to explore or revisit. But I had no money, no suitable vehicle to sleep in, etc. So I gathered up a bunch of "stuff" I no longer needed and sold it for enough cash to buy a reliable vehicle that I could sleep in and enough gas money to fund several trips. Part of the fun was making the camper completely weather proof so I wouldn't freeze to death no matter how cold it was. That freed me up to go anywhere I wanted at any time of the year. Once I was back on the road, it was like old times and I came back to life in a big way. Now I take off every few weeks and come back renewed and full of new ideas. If I were to die tomorrow I would feel completely fulfilled. I feel so blessed because I've seen and done far more than I ever could have imagined.
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That's a great story, Kathleen, and inspirational, too. You found what renews you and made it happen. Reminds me I need to get out more!