Bucket lists and other “in things’
I often wonder how wonderful and harmonious life would be if we all could "go to ourselves" before going there, doing that and getting the T-shirts.
How often have we heard the phrase: “It’s still on my bucket list”, when some brave souls are giving a media interview, even after achieving some seemingly impossible feat that makes the rest of us look like nerds of the first order.
We have all seen and heard them. Those super fit men and women who have just completed a gruelling and murderous sporting or daredevil event and proudly announce that crossing the ocean on a small raft with only a case of beer and a packet of biltong for sustenance is “definitely on their bucket list”!
Other people who seem to have an endless supply of money and have travelled to every nook and cranny of the world also always manage to find some unheard of country they still want to visit to cross off their bucket list.
Other phrases commonly heard are: “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.”
That is all very well, but as a line from a popular song goes: “I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me!”
I often wonder how wonderful and harmonious life would be if we all could “go to ourselves” before going there, doing that and getting the T-shirts.
Finding one’s self and being content with what we have, accepting what we don’t have and wearing a T-shirt that says: “I found me” would make everyone’s bucket list far shorter.
On the other hand, whizzing around a racing track on a 500cc Moto GP racing bike was until recently still on my bucket list.
But besides the fact that old bones take a long time to heal should I have a little mishap while travelling at 200 km an hour, I don’t think the owner of the bike would be too pleased with the few dents and scratches that may appear on the petrol tank when the bike is returned to him in a cardboard box.
So let’s delete that one from the list.
