<p>It’s not just young people who are doing this. I have a 72-year-old friend who’s doing this, too. </p>
<p>Admittedly, it’s harder to do this when one is also paying for kids’ colleges, but it still probably is possible to do some of the things you’ve dreamed of doing. My foray into acting in community theater is an example. The price mainly has been courage and time during weekends and evenings.</p>
<p>Going hang gliding is something else on my list. I found a place where I can do it in tandem with an instructor: It’s about $200. I’m saving my pennies to give it to myself for a birthday present. :)</p>
<p>“But why would someone with a severe fear of heights willingly plummet from the sky? To cross “skydiving” off his mental bucket list, of course.
Gamez was inspired to dream up his list of goals after watching MTV’s “The Buried Life”, a reality TV show about four friends who set out to accomplish the tasks on their joint bucket list.
The show, which wrapped its first season in March, has motivated many young adults to create such lists right now, rather than waiting until they’re about to “kick the bucket” like Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman’s terminally ill characters in “The Bucket List” or Queen Latifah’s supposedly terminally ill character in “Last Holiday.”
Gamez said he tuned in every week, but he knew he wanted to live his own version of “The Buried Life” five minutes in to the first episode.”
[Living</a> as if they had only one day left - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/wayoflife/04/06/bucket.list.buried.life/index.html]Living”>Living as if they had only one day left - CNN.com)</p>
<p>I bought my (66-year-old) mother a tandem skydive for Christmas. They don’t re-open until the summer, so she’s still on the fence about using it, but she’s leaning towards yes.</p>
<p>Yesterday I rode a Segway for the first time. That wasn’t a major item on my bucket list (more like a drop in the bucket ), but it felt good to cross it off.</p>
<p>DonnaL, I’m not sure if I am jealous or feel sorry for you. What was it?</p>
<p>I went skydiving years ago (before tandeming) hoping to remedy my fear of heights. Unfortunately, it didn’t help at all. Hanna, can you go with your mom?</p>
<p>I was raised by two people who were afraid of the water.
I live in Seattle!
Surrounded by water!
I could swim, but I didn’t want to live my life being afraid, so when I was all of 19 I think, I signed up and went on about 4 or 5 white water rafting trips over a 2 or 3 year period.
It was scary but exciting as hell.
Didn’t make me a better swimmer, cause I am too blind for that- but I know how to fall in!</p>
<p>This puzzled me. Why wouldn’t it be anything other than great for someone to accomplish the one thing most important to them?</p>
<p>Answering my own question, I guess it’s possible that a person might feel an emptiness without that goal, but that’s a kind of thinking that is so foreign to me that I would not project it onto someone else, unless they tell me that’s how they feel. (and it is obvious Donna doesn’t feel that way!:))</p>
<p>To add to the above–my goal is to quit working without being financially destitute and live at the shore full time. If I accomplish that, I assure you you won’t need to feel sorry for me!</p>
<p>1moremom, if you read DonnaL’s posts about her journey to becoming herself, you would completely understand. </p>
<p>DH and I have shared the same bucket almost our whole married life. We’ve always dreamed of living/retiring to a little house on the water in our state, waking up every morning to the sunlight dancing on the water, the sound of the river slapping against a little boat tied to the dock, watching the Spanish moss blowing from ancient bare limbed cypress trees from our back porch. </p>
<p>It’s starting to happen. The house is under construction!</p>
<p>I just realized there is a second page to this thread. No, I don’t know DonnaL’s story, but can appreciate the joy she must feel in what she’s accomplished.</p>
<p>Congrats PackMom on being well on the way to your dream!</p>
Just kidding. Sounds fun.</p>
), but it felt good to cross it off.</p>