Strolling in the Moonlight: Bucket List

Friday, January 21, 2011

Bucket List

I know these lists are somewhat cliche but I don't care because I still think about this kind of stuff so I am making one. I know that it is also one of those things that is probably pretty flexible too so I will try to be specific and in all honesty I may have already accomplished some of these things:

Find the love of my life and marry her
Have a happy, healthy family
Be alive to see my children and their children married in the temple
Kiss a beautiful woman at midnight on New Year's Eve
Go to Time's Square on New Year's Eve (associated with previously mentioned item)
Visit all 50 states in the USA
Travel to all seven continents (Antarctica is a maybe... IT'S COLD!)
See the seven natural wonders of the world
See the seven wonders of the ancient world
See the seven wonders of the medieval world
Vacation/Honeymoon in Bora Bora
Go on a cruise
Backpack across Europe
Go cliff diving in Hawaii
Hike the Appalachian Trail
Go rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
Drive a European sports/luxury car on the Autobahn
Play a round of 9 holes at Pebble Beach
Play a round of 9 holes at the Old Course at St. Andrews
20Go on an African Safari (even if my only gun happens to be a pea shooter... aka camera)
Scuba dive off of the Great Barrier Reef
Watch turtles hatch and run to the ocean
Take up photography
Go bird watching in Costa Rica
Swim with sharks
Ride an elephant
Ride a camel
Have a pet hedgehog... I always think of Jan Brett
Have a pet dog
Go deer hunting
Learn how to surf
Go skydiving
Go hang-gliding
Fly a plane
Restore a car
Build a plane from a kit
Own a motorcycle
Run in a marathon
Participate in a triathlon
Make a hole in one
Learn to play the guitar
Start a private business
Work for Disney (even if it is not a permanent job)
Write a book
Be voluntarily homeless for a week or two (as a social experiment)
Discover a new invention
Receive the future cure for Type-1 Diabetes
Become trilingual (+ sign language)
Learn to speak German (1/4 Austrian so it would be nice to speak with the tongue of my heritage)
Go backstage at a concert
See Muse live in concert
Attend a Broadway production (preferably a musical)
Get box seats to a Red Sox game
Get box seats to a Celtics game
Own a small art collection or library
Create a private office like my grandfather's, Glenn Collette
Learn a new style of dancing with my future wife
Learn to meditate
Learn to interpret body language
Learn to gain a sense of self-mastery (physical and mental)

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

Serenity

"But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first rule of flyin' is? Well I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm about to say."

"I do. But I like to hear you say it."

"Love. You can know all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells ya she's hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home."

"Storm's getting worse."

"We'll pass through it soon enough."

Scott Russell Sanders

"When the pain of leaving behind what we know outweighs the pain of embracing it, or when the power we face is overwhelming and neither flight nor fight will save us, there may be salvation in sitting still. And if salvation is impossible, then at least before perishing we may gain a clearer vision of where we are. By sitting still I do not mean the paralysis of dread, like that of a rabbit frozen beneath the dive of a hawk. I mean something like reverence, a respectful waiting, a deep attentiveness to forces much greater than our own."

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

"When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He's written "He dies." That's all, nothing more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential work of dramatic literature is "He dies." It takes Shakespeare, a genius, to come up with "He dies." And yet every time I read those two words, I find myself overwhelmed with dysphoria. And I know it's natural to be sad, but not because of the words "He dies." but because of the life we saw prior to the words.

I've lived all five of my acts, Mahoney, and I am not asking you to be happy that I must go. I'm only asking that you turn the page, continue reading... and let the next story begin. And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died."

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

Ender's Game

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand someone, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them-"

"You beat them." For a moment she was not afraid of his understanding.

"No you don't understand. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don't exist."

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