What's on Your Bucket List ? - Jan 20, 2008

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What's  on your Bucket List ?


Self-help books abound with  pleas to get  off the couch, get out of the house and make your dreams come true. A perfect (or nearly perfect ) life just needs a measure of self-discipline and hard work, and is within reach for those who try.
Regrets, many of these books suggest, pile up and eat away at happiness and fulfillment.

Realistically, however, a dream life is impossible. It's something to think about in the margins of everyday life, such as during the commute to work or just before you fall asleep each night. Most people can't write a best-seller, for example, nor achieve financial independence with some sort of start-up business. Responsibilities like family, a mortgage, and work naturally come first, creating a certain level of mundaneness , and which thereby puts the kibosh on pursuing these fights of fancy. The self-help books do get one thing right: the bucket list.

A bucket list serves as a "to do" list before you die, like learning a foreign language, sky drive, or travel to exotic locations around the world. The list should feature acts of aspiration, which offsets the more boring facets of life. You don;t need to live each day as though it were your last on the planet before kicking the bucket, but the list instead should encourage you to plan imagination, colorful, and even daring acts. You should plumb your imagination, for human nature requires something on the horizon other than an endless monotony of identical days. What's more, the list doesn't need to be hedonistic. The best lists contain items which enrich the lives of others, too.

So what's on your bucket list ?

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self-help books   : 자기계발서
abound with        :  숱하게 많다
self-discipline     : 자기 수양
eat away             : 먹어치우다 .
fancy                  : .공상 상상
offsets               : 상쇄하다.
mundaneness :현세, 속세, [종종 경멸적] 평범함, 일상적임; 실제적임.
kibosh on someting : ~을 막다[방지하다]; (~의 계획을) 망치다
plumb  :  (문예체) (신비한 것을) 헤아리다[파헤치다]
monotony  : 단조로움
hedonistic  : 쾌락주의(자)의