since i’ve been thinking about goals in general for the upcoming year, i realized that given how much i am loving the to do concept, it was about time i start my life bucket list. part of me still thinks that life is not about a bunch of check marks that i need to check off to feel complete. well, at least the spiritual part of me definitely thinks that way. still, even at the end of the day/life i only did a few of those bucket list, i somehow suspect that one of the biggest to do would have undermine all the rest. for know, i will just enjoy the idea of dreaming ‘big’ again. of course, i ‘researched’ what others were putting on their bucket list and i realized a few quick things. one, i did a lot of shit already. and two, the other stuff that was listed wasn’t that interesting to me. yeah, i am being a snob about it for sure. we will see here this leads to.
so i stumbled on this article which is basically anti bucket list. which is to say that life’s experience’s shouldn’t be commoditized to a list of check boxes. the author argues for being the present to enjoy life’s experience’s as oppose to the forward jerking of what’s next on the bucket list. i definitely see their point but at the same time, i think more about the manifestation of values in the bucket list and the journey that accompanies that check list. undoubtedly, visiting india was on my bucket list if i had one before tonight and although it was checked off in the past year, i think about journey before, during and after the trip. yes, there are some that rush through tourist attractions to check things off the list and i don’t think i fall in that camp. so i dig particularly like this exercise that i did in the past few hours. to think of the all the different possibilities and have some DETAILS on how my values manifests. at the end of the day, it’s the details/data that help shed more clarity on the journey.
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