Have you ever thought...

I used to want to do alot of traveling. Wanted so badly to see Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Mann. But then I commited to help my daughter raise her son and I realized I probably won't make it. I would also like to see the Mackinac Island off the coast of Michigan where Somewhere in Time was filmed. Also would like to parachute, hot air balloon ride, etc.

My life has changed a lot since I was diagnosed with a lymphoma. The kind I have has a good side (slow grower) and a bad side(there´s no cure for it). So that the feeling of immortality has left me completly and now I have goals that go for 3 months at a time at the most. But I have discovered that mind has a way of dealing with that: I don´t have now the same interests I had before. I´m not asking myself anymore what do I want to do "when I grow up". I ask myself what will I do tomorrow, providing that I have the energy to do it. Mylot helps a lot. It provides company only if I´m able to be here. So, after all, I suppose that the only lists I´m making now are the grocery lists

On one angle I am fortunate in that at 41 years of age I can honestly say that I have achieved everything I have set out in achieve in my life and if I was to die tomorrow I would be content, on the other angle because I was diagnozed with clinical depression an anxiety disorder I spend most of my life indoors. So in a way I got a lot done and most of my dreams fulfilled before I got depression. I am not at all adventurous and my travel spirit I have curbed. I guess there is only one country that I would love to visit and that is Sweden.

hi! when we were young, there were so many dreams that filled our minds. when we get older, there are so many realities that filled our time... and our dreams are set aside when we have time to spare from the busy schedule we have set from work, family and a bit of social life. happy are those who have fulfilled their dreams. i have made some list too. there are big stuff and small stuff. i made a list of short-term goals and long-term ones. my list pertains to physical, professional, financial, family, love, activities, travel etc. it also includes things that i've been meaning to do but haven't done yet. when i was in highschool/college, i had written short poems and short stories but i have never published them. when i showed an agent a 50-page story i wrote for a paperback/pocketbook submission, she never returned it back to me and made a lot of excuses. i was young and naive at 18 that time. then of course, school then work happened and by then who had time to pursue those? hehe but i love writing and i hope one day i get some of my stuff published. years ago, i have written a declamation piece for my nephew based on his true story and he won first place in his school. later i made a short video production of the same declamation piece for my sister in her masteral course in UP and earned her top marks. i made 2 write-ups for my niece's laptop grant and my nephew's scholarship grant. both won the grant, i'm so happy for them. i also joined a short true-story contest and was a finalist with a little consolation prize on the side. i was ecstatic like i have won first prize. hehe it was my first time to publish something under my name. (excluding those in my former company's newsletters wherein i wrote stuff every quarter issue.) this time i'm planning a blog where i could write all i want. lol and mylot has been a good practice for me. i realized that this writing goal of mine has been coming true all these years little by little (and i realized the bucket list doesn't come true in one go... hehe). i still want to do a novel someday. i did a few drawings a long time ago. my korean student borrowed and submitted those as a sample for her art subject in an international school and passed it off as her own. i didn't know. unfortunately, the school made it as part of their art exhibit and i never got it back. lol so for the bucketlist, i'd be doing some art. could be drawings. could be painting. but it could also be photography. then when i learned some, i would like to teach other kids someday, like a workshop of sorts in my own art studio at home. one of the many community works i planned on doing. i know my way around the kitchen doing simple stuff, but later i would want to learn to bake and do gourmet dishes. local travel... i've been to all regions in our country (mostly due to work) but i wanted to play tourist in bohol, palawan and batanes. so far, we have visited bohol last year and now we're planning either palawan or batanes this year. i would want to visit batad again and also sagada coz it's been a long time since the last. i would love a road trip. i missed the opportunity to go to pagudpod with my bro's family for 1 week because i was doing some work. but if that had been palawan or batanes, i'd definitely take a vacation. hehe europe (tuscany, rome etc) and another visit to my favorite jeju island in south korea... also in my list. cherry blossoms either in south korea or japan. a field of tulips (holland lol) and authentic italian cuisine in an italian province. i love to travel and experience different cultures, sample cuisine, learn the language etc. i thought it was only in books i read or browsed in the internet. it's a great experience to actually be in the places you read about and meet lots of people in the process. i have learned a little korean and indonesian languages and would like to brush up on that plus maybe learn italian language. would come very handy in future travels. hehe my rose garden... i want an entire garden of roses. right now we have 3 potted plants but the orchids and other flowers are getting more beautiful. still i want my rose garden. hehe i did zipline before. exciting and scary at the same time. i wondered on bungee jumping or sky diving. but i don't wanna do it alone. hehe i did whaleshark interaction before so perhaps dolphin interaction would be nice next. dance... uhmm swing. musical instrument... maybe guitar or piano, drums would be fun. sports... take swimming lessons coz i can only swim a little. some in my list in the romance/love department are a bit personal to share. hehe the material things in my list to have are often connected to the financial goals that is always a work in progress. the list under health/physical/personal is a daily work in progress. i have to keep healthy to keep doing stuff to reach my goals. but i'm getting there. since you are in a state of reflection, think back on the things you wanted to do if you have the time and resources. think back the stuff that would make you happy to do or to be a part of. it can be little stuff. it can be things you used to do before you got busy. goodluck there... and sorry i got carried away in writing... hehe this is not even half of it.

I guess I really don't have a list of things that I would like to do before I die. I'm interested in hearing if other mylotters have one or not. I do know that I have goals and things that I want to accomplish out of my life. I know that the majority of them are reasonable and I think when I set reasonable goals for my life it's easier for me to be happy when I achieve them.

Hi, I am retired person. So my list is very small. I want my son get married and he would get a beautiful life partner and I will spend my remaining life happily with my family. I also want to help my son to buy a new house for him. I have our own house in Mumbai. But my son is working in Pune. So we want to buy a house in Pune.

Well I think we all go thru times in our lives where we reflect and look back at everything that we have done, and see if there are things we wish we could have done but have not, or what we should focus on accomplishing from here. It might even give us time and hope to start planning for things as a vacation, etc. and offer time for us to be able to relax a little more as well. Personally I think this is a Good thing and one we can all learn from as well.

I don't have an actual list, but I do often think about what more I would like to get out of life. I am one to think that things will get done (more likely) if you write them down . . . but geez, I guess I need to put writing a bucket list on my list - ha ha! I can say trying to become a millionaire - but that's not going to happen anytime soon for me - I'd rather put short term goals (like how I could make more money now, how I would save more money now, just when I would look for an actual job, etc) - and make them happen. That way, I'm checking off each little step instead of not seeing that big goal never checked off (as if it were far, far away from ever happening). Good luck with your bucket list!!

I don't have too high ambitions. Have a steady and nice relationship and a reasonably paid job I love... and I want to have a cat :). And about my bucket list... I wanna see a play in Broadway and one in Westend. I'm such a theatre freak.

The list of things that I have in life is to finished my studies, look for a better job, to be a rich person and to help my family and relatives and I would also like to help other people Those are the plans that I listed in my head. The purpose of these things is like a bring back change to my parents and to my sister who were the ones who worked hard so I could continue studying until the time I would graduate. I always tell to my self that I have a great family who always supports me all the time so I would like to help them not the time I would be finished rather I would start as of now. I know some people say that these things would be impossible but I always think positive and knew it would come true.