Bucket lists realistic or wishful thinking?

I don't have a bucket list but I do have a mental list of places I'd like to visit and experiences I'd like to have.

Well actually I have two mental lists. The first is my sensible list and my second is my 'if I win the lottery' list.

I think it’s just good/uplifting to have something to aim for when we are allowed out of captivity.

Totally with VQ on this only she probably verbalised it better than I would have.

I’m glad I managed to do some of the things on my wish list when I was younger as I think I’d be too old now to whitewater raft, take a camel and an elephant ride. I once thought wing walking might be ‘fun’...my goodness how my body would flap around now!!

As long as the things that are on it are realistic and achievable. Still good to have some wishful thinking though even just for a bit of fun!

Call it what you like , it’s good to have something to look forward to doing surely ? PIt will differ for all of us what ‘it’ may be .

I don`t have a wish list of things to do.
But i do wish covid would sod off so we can all be with our family and friends etc.
That would be heaven.

I don't like the term 'bucket list' as are you going to feel disappointed when those things you have listed don't happen?

I have found that good things come along without me wishing for them and I don't have to tick them off as they were a surprise.

I’m not keen on the term ‘bucket list’ either, as I don’t like the thought of emptying the bucket! Or kicking it over while it’s still nearly full.

I used to have a small bucket list, but I've done the things on it. What now?

Get a bigger bucket, Gagajo!

Well actually I have two mental lists. The first is my sensible list and my second is my 'if I win the lottery' list.

Me too, vampirequeen but even some on my sensible list will have to go by the wayside now, I think.

It would help, too, if I did the lottery

Not many things on my bucket list. I would like to see Gorillas and Orangutangs in the wild. Was going to Rwanda last year to see the Gorillas but of course that came to a halt. Not sure when it will be OK to travel there or to Borneo for the orangutangs.

I wonder if anyone’s last thought was “I never did get to swim with Dolphins”.
I suppose some people need a list to galvanise them into action.
I can’t think that there is anything I would regret not doing or seeing.

I just have a list of places I’d like to visit.
I once had a bucket list with things to do with Segway, rock climbing, abseiling, zip wire on. It was OK but when it got down to parachute jump, I realised I really didn’t want to do it!

grandmajet

Get a bigger bucket, Gagajo!

I just think I don't demand a lot from life grandmajet.

I always wanted to work overseas. I've done that 3 times now.

I wanted a grandchild. I am lucky enough to have one that I adore.

I wanted a house of my own, no man involved. Have that.

Cat. Got 2.

I would like to be able to lose my unhealthy fat, but I suspect that is more of a skip list than a bucket. I've done it many times, but it always creeps back on. I am not sure it is achieveable.

Just a joke Gagajo.
I, too, am content with my life, so I know what you mean. Contentment is a good place to be.

No great ‘bucket list’ here, more a project on the go, kitchen done last year, back garden landscaping this one. I’ve used it for veg growing the last two years since we returned from France, now I have an allotment, apart from an ordered greenhouse, time for something else. I’m looking at perennial shrubs, grasses with bulbs and annuals in the gaps, my first venture into non veg, I saw this on a site today, on my list now

I’m not keen on the term “bucket list”. It just seems a bit - final, somehow, even though I know I’m not going to live forever. My DH uses the term and his bucket list thing was to go through the Canadian Rockies by train, which we did a few years ago and it was wonderful. He’s not an ambitious man - just wants his health, happy family life and a few luxuries now and then. I understand his thinking. My desire was always to see the Taj Mahal, but DH won’t go with me because of the poverty of India and he doesn’t like the food. I must admit, although i’d like to see the Taj Mahal, the idea of possibly getting Deli Belly and the pollution in India is enough to put me off, although i’ve not given up the idea altogether. Maybe I’m looking at the negatives through his eyes. I may find a friend to go with me - when travelling is safer (whenever that may be!).

Sadly I already feel that I’m over the bucket list stage. I’m not that old yet nor I have any particular affliction. DH tells me off, he’s still got a to do list which is serious about. The only thing I promised myself was getting a dog once I retired, so that’s what’s left on my bucket list.

honeyrose don't give up hope, I can't stand spices or Indian food, but we stayed in a nearby hotel to see the Taj Mahal and it was magical. The hotel, as many of them do, had an international restaurant, with traditional English dishes amongst others. Drinks in the garden watching the sunset over the Taj, turning it pink, then up early for a sunrise tour, it does take your breath away. It is so beautiful, you can go inside, but no photos are allowed, which is why you never see them of the interior.

I don't have a bucket list as such, but when we come back from one place, we start planning the next - until last year! We just got back from Antarctica in the nick of time.

honeyrose Yes the Taj Mahal was impressive but it is tourist not India. If you go make sure you visit Varanasi. Just sit on the steps looking out on the Ganges and watch all of life going on in front of you. Also Orchha is well worth going to. Which between the two.

Thank you B9exchange and Simtib. Yes, maybe I will get there one day, but DH has always been adamant it won’t be with him! Maybe I can find a friend to go with me. It does sound magical! My dad was in India for several years before WW2, so I think that’s another reason I’d like to go there. I can dream ......!

I really struggle to think of anything to go into my ‘bucket’. I travelled when I was young and single and now can’t think of anywhere that I’d rather be than here on the farm ( infact I get stressed if I have to be away from it for more than a couple of days). I’m not into adventures as such, nor material things that I yearn to own. The only 2 things that I think I’d have loved to have done is to raise an baby orphan elephant or orangutan!! I once saw a program about orphan baby elephants and the carer would bed down alongside the little elephant at night as apparently they can’t sleep alone. I’d love to cuddle an elephant all night! I don’t suppose it’ll ever happen now!