I was walking down the street the other day behind two young women in their early twenties who were chatting. I was not eavesdropping, but my ears pricked up when I heard one of them say, “Yeah, That’s on my bucket list.” It just hit me with the question “Why is someone who is just starting life using the term ‘bucket list’ and why has this become such a widespread saying for people these days”. It’s the start of a new year and I say dump out the bucket list and Just Do It.

The term bucket list is supposed to be for people who are facing their imminent demise so they have things that they want to do before they “kick the bucket.” I had to go on the internet to see when this saying became so widely used. Surprisingly, it arose from the 2007 film that starred Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson called, duh!, The Bucket List. The film about two ailing old men deciding to have adventures before they died only received a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes scorecard. The site’s critical consensus reads, “Not even the earnest performances of the two leads can rescue The Bucket List from its schmaltzy script”. It didn’t break the top 25 box office films of the year that year but somehow this term created by screenwriter Justin Zackham resonated with people and now its part of the English lexicon. Ironically, the screenwriter invented this term when he was writing his own goal list on which the number one goal was to “get a film made by a major network”. Well, that goal was achieved but was he aiming to burden the world with this annoying misnomer?

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I much prefer the tagline for Nike that was coined in 1988 – Just Do It. To me the bucket list is an exercise in procrastination, and it can actually be kind of depressing. As we get older the list gets longer and our time gets shorter. Long lists are overwhelming because you don’t know what to do first and stagnation can result. I’ve heard many people come back from a holiday or doing an activity say,” I’ve checked that off my bucket list” in a very unemotional way. Well did you enjoy it? Was it what you expected? Are you happy you did it? Likewise, I have been in conversations when someone is relaying an experience and a listener responds with -“ Oh! That’s on my bucket list” or “I have to put that on my bucket list”. Really? You just heard someone’s story about something and it’s something you have to do before you die?

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Twenty years ago I climbed Mt Kilimanjaro. It had been something I had wanted to do since 1988, coincidentally the year Just Do It came out and decades before the bucket list term came into the public domain. I have relayed my not so wonderful experience of climbing the volcano, getting a form of altitude sickness which caused me to temporarily lose my sight and then blindly walk down the mountain, sometimes just sliding down steep arts on my butt. When I tell this tale to people someone invariably responds with, “That’s on my bucket list.” Why? I just told you it was not worth the pain, time or expense. Go on a safari. And as a side note – none of those people who over the decades have said it was on their b-list has actually climbed Kilimanjaro.

This is why I only have annual goals and as I write down those goals I make sure that they are doable and I will have the time to do them. To be honest I look back at prior year goals and I don’t do them all and in fact I ask myself “what were you thinking?”; but I have to forgive myself for not doing them all. Some contradict each other like this past year – I want to lose 20 pounds and gain muscle mass – hey Craig muscle weighs more than fat – Duh! You can’t do both! Other goals may have been something I wanted to do on January 1st but by June they did not seem so exciting.

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