Thank you Kev for prodding me into thinking a bit harder about my next few years!
bobfog said:
(....) For me I just try to take each day/week/month/year as it comes, try to find some form of joy in each as they arise. (....)
I've held this same "take each day as it comes" point of view Bob for most of my life, and I've had some wonderful adventures and successes by riding along with the opportunities that came my way ... but now in my relatively comfy retirement, with relatively good health (so far) and a few pennies to spare, I'm getting very itchy feet, and thinking I should now create a few 'opportunities' of my own to chase while I can.
Like you Bob, I always felt 'bucket lists' were too similar to 'to-do' lists (and I've been known to make a to-do list of my guilt-inducing, not-yet-finished to-do lists), but maybe now I should write a nice, short, stress-free,
smile-inducing bucket list ...
... attend a Mardi Gras ...
... take a hike in those Bavarian hills ...
... visit a Welsh Eisteddfod (a national music festival, not a million miles from where I live, so
no excuses!) ...
... go skinny-dipping in one of those Scandanavian saunas ...
I'm printing it now, and I'll pin it just above my monitor 8)
Thank you Kev.