What is on your bucket list?

[dazedandblue]

Me and DH are approximately 40, give or take.
Assuming 80 is the average life expectancy, we have 40 years left (on average).

It has made me think and consider what are the things I want to see, do and feel before I’m 80. Effectively, what are the things I’d regret on my deathbed that I never did or tried. (Midlife crisis much?)

It’s felt very current to me as I know I can’t guarantee physical or mental health in my later years. So “the time is now”.

At the moment I have

• travel to all continents
• work and live abroad (even for a stint/few years)
• make sure DS has a phenomenal childhood
• be somebody

the thing is I know the last 2 are so vague and open to interpretation and I need to define what that means for me.

on top of that, I feel like there is 1-2 other things (more tangible) I still need to figure out.

what are yours?

Ooh I think about this a lot too but I've got the morbid thought that I need to get the physical stuff done before 60 as nobody's guaranteed good health for the 20 after that. I'm very much a stop thinking and just do it type of person.

*Big one for me was move to a certain place, and I did that the end of last year!
*The next few are travel related - head back to Asia for a few trips like we did before kids and take the kids to a couple of far flung places and do some kind of cycling holiday with DH.
*Have 2 cats 🙂

Mine are :
Go to New York
Complete my degree that I start next month
To see all my kids happy and settled before I kick the bucket.
Im 43 and lately have thought about dying quite a lot- not sure why, it’s a bit morbid.

I love these
I know it feels very morbid to think about, but at the same time, I feel it sort of spurs you into action knowing and acknowledging life is finite.

I agree, ideally do it before 60 as who knows what the years will be like after that

mine also includes doing to Asia every 2-4 years until I’m not fit and able to do so anymore

and see an American national park or two

I don’t know how I’m going to make working abroad a reality so need to think about that

@dazedandbluei didn’t mean you were morbid, I meant me thinking of dying a lot lately is morbid. I hope I didn’t offend you.
You could always apply as a holiday rep 😂

You didn’t offend me at all @CantThinkOfAnotherUsernane.
more that I often get told I am morbid when I bring something like this up but I really genuinely love talking about it 🤣

If I was 10 years younger and didn’t have kids I would 100% be a ‘yachtie’ ala Below Deck! Dreamy!!! Not even joking! Am I too old to be a holiday rep once DC is at uni? 🤣🤣🤣

@dazedandbluenot at all, go for it I say 😂