If so, what kinds of things do you want to accomplish?
Here are a few things I'd like to do:
• Become fluent in another language (i.e. Japanese)
• Backpack across Japan
• Do a backflip!
• Set up a personal media room
Appalachian Trail Raise a child Two chicks at the same time
I'm sort of working on the Adirondack 46 high peaks. I'm sort of figuring that'll take me about five years. Maybe after that I'll work on the Appalachian Trail over five more.Appalachian Trail
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What would you do if you had $1,000,000 dollars? Appalachian Trail would be an experience. I'd love to go do that trail too.
Done that. Several times. Great movie. Not worth a million. The Annapurna Trail in Nepal would be priceless but there is no way I could do that now.
I want to see the total solar eclipse in 2017, and then the next one in 2024. I want to go to Japan and tour the Shinto temples on Honshu. I want to watch my parents get old and enjoy their retirement. Other than that I have not "OMG I NEED TO DO THIS!" Things on any lists. I have more of a "I'm heading in that direction over there, and the journey looks interesting" sort of outlook on life.
If you haven't been yet, I strongly suggest planning a day trip to Nara. One of my favorite places in the world. Deer surround the town, and you get to pet and feed them. Then in the middle is a 1400 year old temple, with a Buddha so big you can fit through his nostril. Such an amazing place.
I feel like doing numbers 2,3 and 4 simultaneously would be pretty amazing (Off-grid in Latin America whilst writing a book)
I do have a bucket list. 1. Live past 100 years 2. Write a screenplay about a kid that dies unexpectedly and his mom completes his bucket list for him.
At the start of the year I did some back country hiking in New Zealand along Te Araroa. Kind of fell in love with being able to carry everything on my back. We only did 10 days, so some day I want to go back and complete the whole 3000km hike! Should take a while, so I'll probably wait until I'm having some kind of crisis and need to go and 'find myself'. :) I'm fluent in Indonesian, but that's not enough. Spanish, French, Arabic and Swedish are on the list. (I may have to cut down on a few... I'm notoriously bad at studying!) I'd like to do some work abroad. No idea doing what, but ideally using one of the above languages!
I did my first back country backpacking in August. It was only two days/one night, but it's such a great experience. The people I meet along the trails are always stellar people. Even if my toenail is still purple, I can't wait to get back.
I've yet to meet someone I didn't get along with on a trail! :) What did you do to your toe? My girlfriend and I decided to walk entirely too far without breaks (~26km/day) the first couple of days... Ended up with blisters everywhere on our feet. We learned pretty quickly to take a lot of breaks!
26 km/day is aggressive! That's about my top end, depending on trail conditions and difficulty. Most of my hikes are about half that. Basically my toe kept bumping the front of my boot. I had two pairs of socks with me, one medium weight and one light weight. I knew the medium ones worked better and wore them the longer, steeper day. The decent is usually what gets me, and that went fine. The next day they were still damp in the morning, so I put on the light weight ones. The extra space in my boot let my foot slide too much. Blisters weren't bad, but my toenail bumping the front of the boot all day bruised it. It isn't painful, but the nail still looks gnarly.
When we planned the trip, we started with about 13km/day in mind. By the time we'd reached out first stop on the trip it was midday... So we just kept walking until we got to roughly where our second camp was supposed to be. Then we decided that we weren't feeling that bad and did the same the next day. Which was fine after a few days, but our prep hikes had all been pretty short... Like maybe 5-12km. So it was a bit of a shock to the system. Damn beautiful though, so that made up for a lot of it :)
Main thing I want to do currently is go hiking/camping around the U.S. and Canada, possibly some of Europe as well. I also want to perform as a concert pianist, either solo or with an orchestra. At some point, I'd like to live in a cabin for an extended period of time somewhere, too.
Do it! I lived in a tent in Northern Ontario wilderness for three months once. Once a week I drove 2 hours into the nearest town for supplies. After university I also did the solo backpacking through Europe thing for months. Both amazing experiences.
I have a bucket list but it's not really stuff I need to do before I die. Just more "big things to try eventually" - comic con, or some other event with all my favorite authors - dinner at the French laundry. Probably a long weekend with wine tours - get much, much better at the cello - two guys at once - learn macedonian - swim with something cool. Sharks, dolphins, ect - build a led Jace Beleran cloak - Australia, Russia, Spain, the UK, Egypt, Thailand. Maybe Dubai, I go back and forth on that one - start a nonprofit that attempts to fix the lack of upward mobility in the us - my library. Some girls plan their wedding their whole lives. I've been dreaming of my library since I was 6 - build an indie game arcade - read every Hugo winner and nyt top 100 books to read - learn to like mushrooms (just kidding, they are horrible) -pretty done with my drug list. Maybe allad or pia? -Win my goddamn fantasy football league. I'm convinced this will only happen if I complete some kind of ritual sacrifice. The fantasy gods are angry with me - Get arrested. Just a little bit, and for something awesome. That's all I got off the top of my head. I'm always adding things and checking them off, the list will always be long.
I don't keep a formal list really, but there are a few things I'd really like to do. - Write a book - See the Northern Lights - Own a house near a beach - Visit at least one country in every continent (excluding Antarctica... Although visiting Antarctica could be interesting...)
Only sort of. I think there's a danger in planning out too much of one's life (nowaypablo), or at least there is for me. Things will change, and a bucket list can make it feel like I failed at something when really it's just a changing priority where that thing doesn't matter anymore. I'd like to own a house and build a listening room (which in my mind is more like a grown up play room). Maybe make some improvements to my stereo, though in pretty happy with what I have. Funny thing about buying a house: what I want now is totally different than what I thought I wanted when I was 25. Travel is great, but it has to have a purpose. I've been hiking in the Adirondacks, which is amazing. For now I'll take that over hiking in Tibet or wherever because I like the purpose of finishing the main peaks. I'd maybe like to run a marathon some time. Or maybe just a half marathon.
I think making a bucket list is just an efficient way to write out your interests. It can give you something to work toward and look forward to, even when you are in a good place in life. I soo want an entertainment (i.e. listening) room. Some sort of setup built around my computer, I guess. I haven't figured that one out yet. How have you changed with what you want for a house? Do you now want something bigger? Smaller?
Smaller. When I was 25 I thought I wanted a three or four bedroom house with two and a half baths. It's what the new subdivisions around here are. Now ten years later I'm single with no kids and have been in a two bedroom condo for ten years. I find I go in the second bedroom every other month, and the only reason I go in the second bathroom is because there are cat litter boxes in there. So what I think I want is a two bedroom place with an unfinished but dry basement where I could build out a modest fun room. Two bathrooms would be nice but not necessary. A two car garage would be nice, but I could get by with one. There are older but nice neighborhoods in my area closer to downtown with cafes and restaurants walking distance away. The combination of being smaller and not downtown makes them relatively affordable. The next time I move, if I stay in town, it's what I'll look for. A must-have will be some level of privacy, too. I don't want to have my wall six feet from my neighbor's.
I do. Most things there are about having a fine life and travelling/learning about the world. There're quite a few languages there - German, Norwegian (bokmaal), Japanese, Romanian are some - and places to visit and travel around at - Germany (Berlin and Heidelberg in particular) and Europe, the US, the others parts of Russia. Making a few of my own languages are there, as well: I love me them languages. Never needing money is an important one, right there with self-sufficiency and self-reliance. A nice big house near a river. So on. How about you?
I definitely agree with you on the language one. Japanese is my target, but it's still a long ways away. Learning languages is more fun than I had thought, so I am excited for the payoff. For traveling? I'm not so sure. I definitely want to, of course, but I have no idea where to go. Like you said, a big goal of mine is to be able to rely on myself, so I try to keep tabs on my income and spending. I also have some more miscellaneous things like being able to solve a puzzle cube or doing yoyo tricks. :)