“Some day I wanna”
By
Gerry Niskern
Have you made your “bucket list?” Everyone does, sooner or later. Sometimes it is well planned out in detail and voiced to everyone, and others keep their list to themselves. Actually, bucket list turns off some and they prefer the title “life list” or dream list.
According to the Mac Millian dictionary (Bucket List: a list of things you want to do before you reach a certain age or before you die.) Some think they are goals you work towards and that you should write them down. Others think it should be left to Serendipity.
Some lists are extreme; like one adventurous friend who wants to climb the world’s tallest mountain. Another would like to take a long journey on the Orient Express. One would just like to fly first class someday. At this point, my list is simple. I’d like to hold a young baby, or sit all day listening to a mountain stream or take a bike ride through my childhood neighborhood.
One man I know took his mother (a retired very successful realtor) in a wheelchair to tour the State Farm Stadium when it was complete because it was on her bucket list and by the time it was completed she wasn’t able to go on her own.
I guess another form of a bucket list is the people who dream of winning the lottery and what they would do with the money. My resident historian always said, “If I ever win the lottery I’m going to fill my pickup over and over with baby strollers and drive around giving them to the poor Latino mothers I see carrying one baby and tugging along another.”
I had an elderly friend who was an art instructor. She had no family but tons of close friends who were all former students. Her dream wish was to charter a cruise ship and take all those friends on a trip around the world.
Some lists are big and some are small, but the ultimate goal is to appreciate both the big and small moments that could make life special.
Serendipity isn’t a bad way to go.