Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Items 31-35 and the side-effects of bucket listing

If you have a bucket list, even if it's just in your head, does it excite you? Does your brain create imaginary movies with you in the leading role when you think about it? Okay maybe not entire movies but at least a cool scene or some joyful snippet? If not try again.
When I look at my next five items I get excited and the scenes start coming. Right now I had a flashback to a scene from the movie Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason where she's in a prison in Thailand except that in my little movie I was there and we weren't singing Madonna but performing Robert Frost or Lord Byron and having a blast. Now of course I don't ever want to end up in prison ever, but if something like that would happen it would be comforting to know 100 poems to take me out of there.

Or sometimes I imagine the expression of a customs official when I travel to India next time and the officer learns that I'm an Overseas Citizen of India. I don't know how it will really turn out to in real life but I like to imagine his totally bedazzled expression, mustache twitching, alternating his gaze between my passport pic and my face.

What's the benefit in all this? Well we don't have deep important thoughts all the time so when we engage in some fluffy thinking it might as well cheer us up.


31. know and be able to recite 100 awesome poems
32. submit the polished Israel travel article to Globetrotter
33. become an Overseas Citizen of India
34. create a spiritual calendar and follow it
35. see the Salar de Uyuni and take ridiculous pictures there

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