Doing your Bucket List is a great idea. It is not something you should do only when you know you have a year to live. Well . . . when you have only a year to live, it gets easier to prioritize things in your life, I guess. Otherwise, desires are like the stars in the sky. After all, Mirza Gahlib did say,
Which essentially means that “I have thousands of desires that I can die for, but these are still but a few.”
We have gurus telling us all the time that desire is the root cause of all misery. Well that might be true, but then what is life without desires. What is life if you don’t have anything to look forward to? So get your pen and paper ready and start compiling a list of things that you want to experience once before you leave this earth – no that would be wrong, we have already done that and come back.
So let’s begin. Imagine a time when you are not short of money, time, free of any physical and mental constraints. There’s absolutely nothing that you cannot do. You are living a life Befikar Umar Bhar! What would you want to do then?
Become an Explorer
Hop on to a ship and travel the seven seas. Perhaps trace the route first sea explorer took, spending the exact amount of days on the seas. Experience what they experienced when they saw that first glimpse of land after spending months on water.
Travel Around the World
Not hop on and hop off flights, buses, trains and go click, click, click at all the tourist hot spots. Most of us, myself included, live a very narrow, limited, constricted life. To live is to experience. I would love to spend a month in different continents and major cultural cities around the world and live the life the natives live.
Fly
It is unimaginable what a fighter pilot goes through when flying an F-35 Lightning II or a Sukhoi PAK FA at Mach 1.6 (1,700 Km/hr) and above, and makes life threatening decisions in fraction of seconds. If I am going to die, experiencing this will definitely worth the loss.
Work at ISRO
Life cannot be all fun and thrills; we need much more than that to make our lives meaningful. Just as the early sea farers, space scientists are the explorers of our current world. And until we conquer it, the space is the final frontier for humans. Working at ISRO is to be part of that team, it is the allure of “To boldly go where no man has gone before”.
Publish
I love reading non-fiction, but I also like to read fiction. To create an image and put the reader in the middle of a location and make them feel the wind and smell the roses, to weave words that transcend the reader is an art I covet. To become that writer and publish a book of short stories is another desire that I hope to fulfill before it’s too late.
What’s on your list?
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