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What's on your bucket list?

Ah, I thought I responded to this a long time ago!
Here goes:
-Travel to:
Ireland
Norway
Scotland
Germany
Italy
Vancouver B.C.
Every US State
Prague for the next thing on my list

-Go to the Mucha Museum in Prague
-See the bog people
-Have children??? Used to be high on my list but now I'm not pressed.
-Get married
There is more but I'm drawing a blank b/c now I can't stop thinking of countries to add to my list :D
 
Been traveling Europe on my own for the last two months so that's been a major thing I've wanted to always do.

Will cross off skydiving this weekend in Switzerland, so excited.. Did paragliding off a mountain and ice climbing in a glacier yesterday

I think in general.. as much travel and activities I can possibly do. There's a lot out there!
 
malakaix said:
Been traveling Europe on my own for the last two months so that's been a major thing I've wanted to always do.

Will cross off skydiving this weekend in Switzerland, so excited.. Did paragliding off a mountain and ice climbing in a glacier yesterday

I think in general.. as much travel and activities I can possibly do. There's a lot out there!
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Good luck with the skydiving; as someone who has done it I can say its better than any drug I have tried, once you have done it you will probally want to do it again and again.
 
watch "The Bucket List"

my desires wax and wane often

I still want to go to Cuba. Maybe climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. Own my own business/store selling my own goods...and I have a shop cat or dog. Learn how to drink scotch. I'd also like one of those little bars, that look like a globe.

It'll change next week.
 
The main thing i really want to do is being able to march The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. It's my dream to wear that green uniform.
 
-Use a few drugs intravenously
-Ride from San Diego to South America
-Ride from San Diego to Alaska
-(various other drug related tasks)
 
Oneirology said:
Good luck with the skydiving; as someone who has done it I can say its better than any drug I have tried, once you have done it you will probally want to do it again and again.
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It was the most unreal experience I've ever had, holy shit what a rush! The moment I touched down I wanted to do it again, going up in the plane I was anxious and then sitting on the edge of the plane with my legs hanging out at 13,000ft was terrifying but as soon as I jumped, I've never felt more alive.. So awesome, would recommend it to anyone ;)
 
I would like to be a champion street racer... fast and furious style ;)
I want to play in and place in the world poker finals in vegas
I want to be a hot gogo dancer on stage with a badass dj like scrillex or excision
i want to be a champion pool player
I want to write an autobiography and have it be a bestseller
I want to travel quite a bit more new zealand costa rica australia
I want to scuba dive the shipwrecks in the outerbanks of north carolina
I want to see tosh standup live
i want to see tom petty in concert
i want to get married one day and have beautiful healthy awesome kids
I want to not be a fuck up the rest of my life
I want to learn self defense with and without weapons (knives and guns) afterall the zombie apocalypse may be coming
I want to be a trained assassin super badass style like angelina jolie in mr and mrs smith
 
Here’s a warning about completing bucket lists I hope people will find philosophically interesting, instructive, or at least amusing:

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I have a very odd bucket-list related problem. It’s a problem that I’m sure a lot of people think they wish they had, but if they only knew they wouldn’t. I’m 31 and I’ve pretty much completed my bucket list. I don't mean to brag so much as provide an illustrative warning with this. Other than wing suit base jumping and tripping in zero gravity I don’t know what else I’d really add and those aren’t enough. Now the only thing I want is to be able to want, to find justification for an ambition towards something new. But nothing feels remotely as natural or compelling as what I’ve already done, nothing feels as novel, and careers feel like a contrivance of history and economics more than callings. It’s suffocating, like being both lost and immobile, yet having all the provisions to survive, with nothing of consequence happening to me and nothing concrete being yearned for – like wanting to decay in a sterile vacuum.

I didn’t cheat and nearly complete my bucket list by age 30 because I just aimed low or something. Here’s the bucket list type stuff I’ve done:
Graduated college summa cum laude
Earned an advanced degree from a high-ranked institution (just to earn it, not to do anything with, though I'd love to want to do something with it)
Fell in love/maintained a long term relationship with a good woman (4 years, still in)
Travelled to Nepal for 3 months of trekking/volunteer work/recreation
Tandem skydived, hang-glided, para-glided, bungee jumped (each one while tripping; best was when I injected DPT before para-gliding and following an eagle up a thermal into the clouds alongside the Himalayas)
Scuba dived in Thailand
Attended Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
Had a threesome
Body surfed/went skiing in Utah/went water skiiing/went snowmobiling and ATV driving
Walked away with the girl everyone wanted from a club (In Katmandu the conditions were just right – I’m no Casanova nor do I aspire to be, just wanted to do it once)
Saw most of my favorite still touring bands live
Kayaked to remote islands I had to myself for 10 days/tripped and had life-affirming experience there
Hiked the Yosemite backcountry/tripped there
Tried most every drug I’ve wanted to, even rare ones like DET and 3-ho-PCP
Had many fully immersing falling into a dream type meaningful psychedelic “visions”
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So now I get the impression I should have died years ago because I’ve lived the life I wanted and there’s nowhere to go. Don't want babies, the obvious next step, so I find myself the most ironic kind of loser. All choices about what to do are unrecognized yet are felt as perfectly equidistant from me, suspended in an edgeless void and pulling me towards them with equal gravity. It’s paralytic freedom. I don’t feel any emotion about it, just some vague yet somehow intense impression of stagnation. I don't really feel bad or anything, just spiritually frustrated. So be warned about completing everything on your list too fast. I spent my 20s doing everything one might imagine might have sparked the fuel for the rest of a life to no avail. If I made a mistake I don’t know what it was. Perhaps the mistake was doing my best to make what deeply and honestly felt to be broadly the right choices. How does one start now from that? Make a wrong frivolous choice? Should I go wave my dick at traffic?

Seize the day and all that shit. You certainly won't regret doing everything you want. It's no tragedy to end up like me, but know if you burn through all your desires maybe all you'll see in front of you is smoke.
 
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I really enjoyed reading that psoodyn0m, the thought occurred to me recently as I've been crossing off a lot from my list in the last couple of months.
 
^^hmmm. I think that is very strange that a person that thought up and wanted to do all those things, is not still thinking up and wanting to do more things. I mean, really, what happened? That is by no means a list that trumps every other possible thrill out there. What do you think happened? Depression?

I guess I just have a completely different outlook on time since I am old enough that it now flies by; so I cannot imagine simply finding myself wondering what to do next? The list just keeps growing the more I accomplish from some mental list that I may have made earlier. Not only that, but places that I was determined to visit, and did, I now am determined to travel to again because the time there felt too short!
 
- grow an organic weed plant to bud
- grow a san pedro from seed to 2-feet
- reduce my inhibitions (as much as possible)
- fall in love (reciprocated)
- drink ayahuasca or smoke dmt
- travel all 5 continents
- find my vocation
- own a beautiful house with a jungle-garden
 
herbavore said:
^^hmmm. I think that is very strange that a person that thought up and wanted to do all those things, is not still thinking up and wanting to do more things. I mean, really, what happened? That is by no means a list that trumps every other possible thrill out there. What do you think happened? Depression?

I guess I just have a completely different outlook on time since I am old enough that it now flies by; so I cannot imagine simply finding myself wondering what to do next? The list just keeps growing the more I accomplish from some mental list that I may have made earlier. Not only that, but places that I was determined to visit, and did, I now am determined to travel to again because the time there felt too short!
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Off topic:
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What happened is I'm no longer in a stage of my life where I can just pursue thrills, happiness, and knowledge for their own sakes and have it feel OK. Now I have to MAKE something of myself, not just experience or learn, or earn another degree. Yet I'm no closer to having a dream for my life than I was at 18 despite having done everything I’ve been advised to do to find it for a decade.

I have a mind that was born to experience deep pleasure and pursue novelty, and I have. I suspect it's the overwhelming sensation of the world coming in and all that’s interesting to perceive that blurs my awareness of any specific realistically oriented internal drive I have to propel me out to the world.

I can't derive the same satisfaction from the things I did before, and I feel nothing pulling me towards the future to give me new satisfaction. And I hate this and for it myself because I know there's so much of consequence to do, yet the awareness of what's to be done is not the same as feeling the draw to do it. Thus, stagnation. I'm not depressed in any usual way. It's more like my life was designed only for the first half of a relay - only taking in, never giving back - that's why I say I think I should have died. I don't want to die, I want to have died -- but I don't want that either. I want to live.
 
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ocean said:
Ah, I thought I responded to this a long time ago!
Here goes:
-Travel to:
Ireland -Check
Norway
Scotland
Germany - Check
Italy -Check
Vancouver B.C.
Every US State
Prague for the next thing on my list -Check

-Go to the Mucha Museum in Prague -Check
-See the bog people -Check
-Have children??? Used to be high on my list but now I'm not pressed.
-Get married
There is more but I'm drawing a blank b/c now I can't stop thinking of countries to add to my list :D
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New additions:
Go to Emily Dickinson's house/museum
See New England in the fall
Go to Iceland
See Nicolas Jaar again
Take a helicopter ride over somewhere gorgeous
 
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