Curious if anyone has bucket list items they actually plan on doing. I don't know if I do or if I just have fantasies of what I'd like to do someday.
I've always wanted a dramatic exit from somewhere. I want to blow up and quit a job, knock things off my desk, etc. I love the idea of being thrown out of an event after doing something wild, like ruining a wedding, but I don't think these count. I have no plans on actually doing them before I kick it.
I feel you. It seems pointless to plan for fun and spectacular stuff to happen when you're too poor to fill your car with gasoline and too stressed to clip your toenails.
I think that makes sense, really. I don't have many aspirations for myself. I don't think it necessarily means you're too depressed or poor or lack imagination, but maybe it does. I don't know.
I keep saying that one of these days I'm going to go stay with my aunt for a week and learn how to quilt. I know I could learn it on youtube instead, but it would be way more fun to do it with her, and also now she's a widow and lonely so it would be good for her too. I gotta carve out that time somehow.
Quilting is pretty cool. My wife does it quite a bit, and the process is always neat and creative. Quilt shows are also fun, and there is usually some juicy gossip surrounding social justice type quilts.
All that to say, I think that's a cool goal.
I usually think about it once a year when I go to my mom's hometown for the annual festival and go to the quilt show with my family, then immediately forget again. My aunt knows that I want her to teach me and would love a visit, so thanks for the reminder. Maybe I could make it work sometime this fall.
just gonna add another voice to the choir to say do it if you can! i'm sure it'd mean a lot to your aunt. plus i know from extensive experience with the older crowd that the loneliness really is killer
That's awesome, I wish that I had learned to quilt from my grandma while she was alive. Quilts are great gifts and heirlooms, I still have the quilt that she made for me when I was born. I'm sure you visiting her would mean a lot to your aunt, not just because she'd get to spend time with you (which I'm sure would be meaningful in itself), but also because you'd be showing her that you value something that she's good at and cares about. Honestly, it's kind of silly, because I don't know either of you, but the thought of you visiting and learning from your aunt makes me happy. We treat older people in the U.S. so fucking callously and disrespectfully, which makes me really sad and angry, so it warms my heart to see younger people giving a shit about their older relatives.
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The only real, solid one for me is that I want to travel to another country. I can't live my entire life and die in this dystopia. Preferably I'd like to stay in that other country long-term, but that's always tricky to get going. If I had to really hone in on a specific place I want to travel it would be a place I'm almost certainly not going to be able to stay, but hell, it would be worth it to me. I want to visit southern China and tour some tea farms.
I want to leave :amerikkka: That's currently the last item on my list. Before that it was transitioning
It won't be easy, but neither was transitioning so I'm staying optimistic and doing all I can to make it happen
Good on ya, comrade. Yeah, I could certainly see that after transitioning that a lot of things feel downhill at that point.
near where i live there's literally a business that lets you do this exact thing
it's ridiculously expensive but hey if you wanna drive a tank... (and no i don't know what precautions they have taken to ensure that your borrowed tank doesn't stay borrowed. probably extensive ones?)
I’ve already scouted out a place in Texas that lets you drive through an obstacle course and then blow up an old sedan but yeah it’s not cheap. Definitely a bucket list item for that reason
it's genuinely the funniest shit that there are so many of these places in the u.s.
i did a bit of looking and the one in texas has soviet equipment which seems like a huge plus. definitely pricier but it seems to be uh quite full-featured?
anyway i hope you get to do so! it seems like it would be a lot of fun
A handful of touristy things I want to see: Great Wall of China, the pyramids, Machu Picchu, giant redwoods, the aurora borealis. I also want to visit the Galápagos Islands and the DPRK.
To ride on a bullet train. I’d also love to learn to fly a plane.
To have a wedding.
To live outside of the US for at least some time. Hopefully forever.
To be published in a big name journal like Science or Nature (yes I know Nature sucks ass but still)
To see a world where the United States of America does not exist in any recognizable form (preferably in a good way and not as an irradiated crater)
Climb to the peak of Yr Wyddfa. Every year I tell myself that I'll pick a time in early Autumn, take the hellish bus journey to North Wales and climb that fucking mountain. Every year, I can't seem to find the time to do it.
There's a local mountain that I want to get to the top of at some point
die quickly without indignity or too much pain, and without a slow inevitable slide towards death as some terminal illness (and the treatments for it) kills me. before old age/illness makes life terrible.
Survive long enough to see if there's hope for humanity to outlast capitalism before it destroys us all. :ussr-cry:
Is it possible to have a bucket list item that is survival? I guess all of them imply survival until they're done. Good luck! Hope you get to do it.
I still want to go compete in Evo. Debating making this the year I finally do.
