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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Online Journal Entry 15

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. --Henry David Thoreau


Have you seen the movie The Bucket List? Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman portray two men who make a list of things they want to do before they "kick the bucket." What things would you like to accomplish in your life? Any adventures you'd like to take? Places you want to see? A mystery you'd like to solve? What would be on your "bucket list?"


In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. -- Sid Caesar

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier

57 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok well the first thing i would do is......ummmmm i don't know. I haven't thought about it before. Ummmmmm mabey just try to go on a giant road trip and have lots of fun.

lvsk8er91

Mooser said...

what I would put on my bucket list would be first off to find someone that would actually get me up to do the things on my list. I would like to be trained and shoot a 50cal sniper rifle. Get my name to be known all around the world not by being famous but in relationships. Own an 1955 Corvette and a 1979 Corvette. Live in 5 different countries. And find the love of my life and marry her.

set said...

my bucket list would be
Brig. General in air force
visit Japan
get married
and have fun

Anonymous said...

I don't believe I have seen that movie. There is many things I want to do in my life. I would like to attend Lindenwood and major in drama. I want to shair Gods word with others. I would like to visit Ireland and Italy because I have friends and family that came from there. I want to a good and fun life to spend with family and friends.
LOVE

love it or hate it said...

My bucket list would consist of joining the Air Force being stationed over seas. Marry the a great guy start a family. Travel around the world and see things that i cant dream of right now (good things). Have a good realtionship with my dad and step-mom. watch my kids grow and there kids grow and just live my life to the fullest.

lar16c said...

I would definantly want to travel for a year. But I definantly would want to get married and have kids.

Dollface said...

There's many things i would like to do before i die. I for sure want to go to Italy. I want to have a family and design a beautiful home. I want to go skydiving.

Anonymous said...

Well, there are so many things that I would like to do before I 'kick the bucket". For starters, I would like to make it through high school alive, go to college, get married, have a family, all the "DUH" stuff. Along with the usual, I would love to go sky diving, travel to foreign countries, climb the eifle tower, explore the Taj Mahal, bungee jump, own a fancy schmancy car, visit every state at least once....the list goes on and on. But those are just a few dreams of mine.


BrainyBlonde92

anze_kopitar said...

i dont no yet

Anonymous said...

I Want to have made 1 million dollrs, gotten married and had kids, and never regretted anyhitng in my life.
cheer2010

ilovemrs.snow said...

before i kick the bucket i would love to be married with a women from highschool and have a family and honestly my big dream is that i want to be on the moon i really want to go to the moon...

Lil G said...

i have not seen that movie before and i have not thougth of a buket list. one of the things i want to do very much is go and visit all europe. i would also like to ge married and have fun with my family. there must be lots of things i want t so but i can't remember.

Anonymous said...

this is a great movie by the way...we should watch it in class
my bucket list would consist of skydiving (which im doing this summer), getting a tattoo, go to college, get a great job, travel, help people that need it, keep my amazing friends (and make new good ones), stay tight with my family, get married, have a family, and really just do a bunch of crazy random stuff inbetween all the other things....you only get one life so u might as well do as much as u can and have a crazy fun time doing it all

*jojofosho*

IM_SO_COOL189 said...

I have seen the movie it was quite enjoyable thank you. but my bucket list would be to live on a farm in montana in the woods in a log cabin and have alot of reindeer that can fly much similiar to santa's reindeer but not exactly and i wanna die in a car crash going a milion bajillion miles per millisecond.

L said...

There isnt much i want to acomplish, just wanna live life to the fullest and funnest, id like to travel the world maybe a bit (being in 1 spot all the time gets boring quick). I kinda wanna go to paris sometime in the future, its a place I really want to see. Id like to solve the mystry of space, but that is probaly impossible lol.

Anonymous said...

I have seen the Bucket List which was a great movie because it was funny, adventurious, and serious all an one. I would like to travel to most of the countries in the world before i die
Mr.StuzmanFan60

Anonymous said...

no i have not seen the bucket list. things i want to do before i die would be find a guy that loves me get married live in a house tell my family about what they have done to me and my sister find my mother(real mother)and give her a pice of my mind tell my dad hes a moron tell lea i hate her and other thngs not good for school and go sky diving become a cop write a book and sell it go to Finland and see my relitives that i have never met and eat a cherrie o' cream by and steak all before i die and go to hawiia.
silverfish91

Anonymous said...

i want to go to europe and australia and more than anything, mexico. i want to be a missionary and show everyone who God really is.

--basketball33

Anonymous said...

Well, I would love to go on a cruise to Jamacia...even though I have already been on a cruise to Cancun, it would still be alot of fun! I would also like to go to Egypt so that I could explore all the ancient pyramids and know of anything that happened to people in a certain pyramid. I would also like be on a show where I could find ghosts and find out what really happends if you are in the same room as a ghost!!!

Limitless Worship said...

before i die i would like to be able to live on an island in a treehouse for awile with my wife and make alot of jungle babies that swing on vines and form a colony out there! Also, i would like to be able to fight chuck norris before i die.

Timon. said...

Yes I have seen The Bucket List. (GREAT movie by the way). There are a few things I would like to accomplish before I "kick the bucket". I would like to go to college, travel to some places I have dreamed to travel to (Ireland,Australia,Greece..etc),get married and have a family, and just live life to the fullest : )

The Terminator said...

Hmm... there are a bunch of things i want to do before i die. Of course fall in love , marry him and have a family. I want to visit Australia and Israel. I think it would be the most amazing trip going everywhere that Jesus did. I also would like to have a sucessful career in dentistry!

Anonymous said...

this is easy for me because i already have a bucket list. There's a lot of things i wanna do in life.

1.dance forever no matter what, hopefully in L.A or N.Y.C. 2.Travel the world! definitely Australia. 3.Open my own business everywhere around the world..and be just like Donald Trump 4.Have my own clothing line...called Barbarella. 5.open a huge place so all the unfortunate ones can live in it =) 6.become a famous model/actress!!!! <---my dream 7.learn how to sing 8.be on broadway 9.open my own dance studio 10.be a famous choreographer 11. be in music videos! 12.live in Cali 13.marry an international soccer player 14.learn how to speak 3764824782 different languages 15.be in the Miss Italy in the world pageant (i think my dad already talked to the people and im doing it when i move to italy after high school..wow!) 16.be a flying attendant 17. work with the United Nations 18.be a lead anchor 19. come up with some kind of thing to cure every kind of sickness 20.be a hair dresser/make-up artist.. i love cosmetology 21.be in a reality show,, like the Real World 22.START PLAYING THE VIOLIN AGAIN =/. and not quit 23.get some abs


ID:betchimthebombliketictic

Kloie said...

Things to do before i "kick the bucket":
travel the world
adopt a child from Africa
fly a plane
fall in love
live in an exotic place
sky dive
and just live life to the fullest!

Anonymous said...

Before I kick the bucket, I would like to journey to Africa or somewhere in South America to do missionary work. I would like to go skydiving, parasailing and bungi jumping. I want to hold a new born child in my arms, rock a baby to sleep, and adopt as many children as I can afford.
I want to spend an evening in Paris, a Christmas in New York, and a night in the arms of the one I love!
-texas2010

Anonymous said...

i have a lot of things that i want to do before i die. i want to finish high school and go onto college and then get accepted into a medical school to study to become a childrens doctor. after that i would like to find a really good job and a wife and have kids. i want to be able to watch them grow up and when i retired start to travel around the world. and i want to have tons of friends and help lead them all to christ. then i want to watching my grandkids grow up....

....nikeboy.....

Anonymous said...

well i havent seen that movie but ive heard good things about it. my buctet list would have on it...
1. go to rome, spain, and egypt
2. name one of my future kids after my mom
3. taste some weird food

guardgirl1220

Bond said...

I would like to become a doctor, own at least 5 cars at the same time, and be able to retire before I get too old. Also I want to travel to South America, and Europe.

CottonCandy said...

I would like to accomplish great things. And maybe go on a world trip. And then see where life takes me from there.

Anonymous said...

No i have not seen the movie. :(
But, On my "bucket list" i would want to accomplish moving to North Carolina after i start working in the Dental industry! I want to have 2 kids. It would be amazing to go visit and help kids in Africa. I would want to go on a Wakeboarding trip for half a year! A mystery i'd like to solve would be how to always be happy and NEVER get mad. :)

Rockstar said...

Sky dive! that is the one thing i really want to do. As far as like life, I want to be able to say that I lived my life by my rules. Not by wanting people to like me, so I don't have to change.

Anonymous said...

i've not seen the movie. Iwould like to be a doctor one day and visit the great wall. The adventure i'd like to take would be to go to Machupichu, or go to the north pole. I would like to see Paris Greece rome Italy Barcelona. Teh mistery of my life is that people where i come from said stories about my house supposely there is a hiden tresure under my dogs house and i would like to find it some time even though i dont think is true but i could try.


La Fl@ka

Anonymous said...

My "Bucket List" would consist of:
Seeing the world.
Getting Married.
Having Beautiful children.
Get a tattoo!
Go sky diving.
I would eventually like to live on the beach.

Softball5

Anonymous said...

I want to accomplish a lot! I want to travel all of the world and meet a lot of people. i also want to make enough money so that i can be a philanthropist and donate money to kids in need.

CONDOR

sheiktowel said...

in fact, i do have a bucket list. here we go...
i want to kill a deer with a blowgun
i want to defend a poor defensless kid from a gang of wild men with my bare hands
i want to marry the worlds hottest girl.
i want to have a kid that is the first to go to mars, then becomes famous as a heart sergeon.
i have some more but i cant really think of them right now.

Anonymous said...

No, I have not seen The Bucket List. I would like to accomplish many things in my life...like getting a good paying career: like a forensic filest. Get married after college, and settle down and have three kids. I would love to go explore many of pyramids in Egypt and go to Jamacia!

Tennis24 said...

Bucket List:
- sky dive
- travel to Europe
- make new friends
- meet new people

I have not seen the movie.

Anonymous said...

alright umm lets i wanna beat the crap out of tyler murphy in a wrestling match....With him having a fake leg and all now i know i have a chance.

Lucas Britton

Hurley said...

i would like to be able to travel the world. go to the home country of my parents. i also wanna get maried end take her everywhere with me.

tyrone said...

my bucket list includes many different things...
-i want to bring peace to all of the world
-i want to help the people in Africa
-i want to remember my life
-i want to learn from my mistakes
-i want to play the piano\
-i want to meet the president
-i want to gain a better testimony of Jesus Christ
-i want to forget about drama
-i want to bring the world together in unity
- and last i want to go skydiving

Anonymous said...

I have plenty of things i would want to do:
1. Learn how to play the guitar
2. Get married to someone perfect
3. Have kids
4. Meet someone famous
5. Be in a nascar race, not the driver
6. Become a special ed teacher
7. Go to someplace beautiful

ilovemolly

Anonymous said...

This is something I really ave not thought about but I would really want to travel to other countries and learn about other cultures. I would also like become a mom and have a good family so I can raise my kids to do great things. I would just want to live my life to the fullest so that when im gone people will remember me in a good way I definately want to make a difference. Even if it just means my kids doing the big things and Im just in the background Im cool with that i just want to be part of something good.

miss kitty said...

in my life i just want to live a long time. i also want to get married and just live life how i want to and with the one i love.

Anonymous said...

The goals that I would like to accomplish in my life are to travel the world. I don't want to travel the world just for something to do. I want to see what else the world has to offer and what else is out there. I would like to accomplish High School and College. I want to accomplish college because I have a dream that I am following. I want to go to college to become a brain surgeon. I realize that this isn't the easiest thing to do. It requires a lot of science and math. This also requires a lot of patience, time, and practice.

godstrackgirl91@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

there are many things i would like to do before i die. as in the movie, i would also like to go skydiving. i want to get married and have a family eventually. i want to spend a year or so in africa and do mission work out there. i want to travel a lot. i want to impact many peoples lives, and make a difference.

ilovechelsea

Lil' Wayne said...

I have not seen that movie, but heard it's pretty good. There are defintily things I want to do in life before I die. Here are a couple: vacation in Amsterdam, go skydiving and base jumping, and I would love to meet a nioce lady and settle down with her for the rest of my life. I also don't wanna have any regrets and just live my life how I want to live it. Got to have fun while you can, we are all gonna die someday anyways.

Anonymous said...

Before I "kick the bucket", I plan on going to college and finding my soul-mate! I want children of course, just not as many as my Mommy had...7! 3 would be nice though :) I want to travel the world. Paris, London, Sydney, Cazamel, Spain, Japan, goodness, there's so much to see! I sing and write my own music and share it often with my family and friends. I want to learn to play the piano and guitar and write even more music. I also want to have a CD made in the next 2 years. Music is my life, so before I die, I want to share it with everyone close to me, so they can still hear my voice when I am gone. I also want to get my Mommy a '98 Teal GrandAm for her 50th Birthday. It has always been her dream, and I plan on fulfilling it. When she gets "her" car, I get "my" car :) Most importantly, before I die, I want to help those in need, while inspiring them to find their purpose in life, as I have with music.

Anonymous said...

fly a plane
eat exotic foods
date a person from another race
drive my dream car
become a millionair
be famouse
go to prison
attend the olympics
throw a small animal

TYLER MURPHY

Anonymous said...

something i want to accomplish in life is to live life to the fullest.you only live once to live it while you can! i would like to go on an adventure to Australia..i plan on eventually having kids and getting married. i want to live in a big house in the middle of no where!

i love chels

Anonymous said...

There are many things i wanna do. too many to list. travel for a long period of time. be a traveling doctor. work with dolphins. get married and have around 5 kids. go to australia possibly antarctica...that would be sweet. many many things. i also want to see that movie. oh and go skydiving with jordan.

k33

Baseballer16 said...

On my bucket list i would want to go duck hunting in the best place in the world, get a world record buck, get a grandslam turkey hunting. i would also wana ride a bull before i die and then spend the last moments with all my family.

Kertis said...

I have not seen the movie because it is sad and depressing so I don't want to watch it. I would like to make some money and travel.

Anonymous said...

For my bucket list, i would like to see a Grateful Dead concert before all of the remaining members end up dying. I would also like to meet Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. I would also like to visit or even live in haight ashbury in San Francisco.

tyler david

Torres said...

no i have not seen the movie i wont to go arould the world,sky diving, play in a world cup

Anonymous said...

Some thinhs I would like to do is have children, travel the world, become a politician, and much more.

Striker

Anonymous said...

The things that I would like to accomplish in my life are probably to get married one day and have at least 2 kids, maybe 3. I would love to see the world and travel. I really want to go to France, Spain, Mexico, Florida, Jamaica, & a few others!!

cowboy13 said...

Skydiving,hunting in Africa, and discovering a new species of animal.