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Again, this weeks word is more of a phrase. Bucket List.
Thanks to the movie by the same name, everything is Bucket List.
What used to be friend questionnaires is now always entitled bucket list. Everywhere you turn, you are being asked about your bucket list.
It is bucket list this and bucket list that.
Which would be fine if it was actually used in the right context.
Think about it. Bucket List…kicking the bucket…what do you want to do before you kick the bucket…create a list…hence, bucket list.
But is it used that way most of the time? oh no. Like i mentioned earlier, every friend questionnaire has turned into a bucket list, which is completely opposite of what a bucket list is. usually.
the friend questionnaires are questions about what you have done to get more information about you. occasionally there will be a question in there of what you want to do for certain things, or where you would like to go. but for the most part, it is questions about what you have already done.
That, my friends, is not a bucket list. Finding out what kind of soda I like is not a bucket list. Finding out my nicknames is not a bucket list.
A bucket list is not finding out if you have been skinny dipping. it is finding out if you want to go skinny dipping. It is not finding out if you have been to such-and-such place. it is finding out where you want to go.
It is finding out what you would do if you had X amount of time left. It is finding out your desires.
I wouldn’t mind “bucket list” if it was used properly. but, like most things, we have distorted what could be a good thing…getting your priorities right to do what you want before you die, to using it for whatever list you want to create. But because it is distorted, it made it to this list.
For the record, part of my bucket list is:
traveling to Greece, Egypt, Scotland, China and most importantly, Ireland. It is being with my twin-soul sister until the end.
That is pretty much it. I have very few things that I want to do that I haven’t already done…and that list itself is very short. I am a very simple person. I do not need lots of things (just books, books and more books with some movies thrown in LOL). I don’t need to do a lot of things to make me happy. So, my personal bucket list is very short and very simple.
let’s go back to “getting to know you” questionnaires being separate from bucket list. let’s put them to their proper and correct use once more. ;-)
