What’s on your bucket list?

Have you answered the question yet? It’s really another way of asking the age-old questions – Who am I? Why am I here? and What’s the Meaning of my life? No small task. But one that is vital if you wish to have a successful midlife transition and a healthy aging process.
Why wait until you are about to die to find out why you lived? Most people are too busy existing to figure out what they really want out of life. But, if you are reading this, perhaps you are not one of them. Good for you!

George Bernard Shaw once wrote “True Joy of Life”

This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature
Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life
Belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live,
It is my privilege to do for it
Whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly
Used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I’ve got hold of
For the moment
And I want to make it burn
As brightly as possible before
Handling it on to future generations.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll keep this subject going and I’d love to hear your thoughts. How many of you have a bucket list? How did you go about creating it? Is it something you are truly working through? Is it what is giving your life meaning? If not, why not?

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