This is one of my favorite movies and it deals with a cancer patient trying to make a bucket list of things to do and how he goes after them. Why does this movie appeal to me? I feel it is because it highlights the trivialness of our dreams and goals and epitomizes that life cannot be fully planned, instead can only be fully lived. Enough of the chatter, and let us go to the depths...I will try to not just write the goals or the bucket list, but also try to write the execution plan and some ways of identifying on when it was done (my google and microsoft experience is talking, baby!). BTW, this blog will be updated as time passes to add to the wish list and update it continously.
1) Drive on US-101 and CA-1 to san diego:
ocean on the side, a continous drive for 8 hours and then reaching san diego is a dream. Then walking on the beach sand with naked foot, playing in the warm ocean waters and then living in a hotel with ocean side view, ah the magic! I don;t want to do anything except lie on the bed and see the ocean from my room, wake up at sun rise and see the morning sun slowly rise from the far side and then go back at the sunset and see the sun disappear into the sea...Nothing, but leisure time and nowhere to go except for the room. I would also love to go there under moon light, may be on a full moon day and then sit on the beach, have the cool breeze touch my face and then may be lie on the sand to feel the coolness? This is my first wish!
2) Join back acting:
Back in 2005, i embarked on the actor's journey and then continued for 2 years. In this time, i did some comedy, some shakespeare, some intense plays and finally two full plays. However, my acting journey was anything but fantastic. I was nervous and fumbled at times and was never comfortable. In the end, after some failed auditions, i had to finally give up. Sometimes, i feel disappointed and sometimes i feel i could have done better, but there is a part which wants to try again, to go back to the stage and give it another shot. I wish that happens! I know i might have sucked big time, but there were times when i would forget everything else and immerse into the play, to speak my lines with conviction and to bring authencity to my performance. I want to do that again and may be struggle less in acting and take it as a joy ride.
3) Spend a week in a buddhist monastery
4) Write a book:
Probably that should happen sometime since i do feel have some creative bent towards writing...my initial experiences of writing came when i took the writers class and i had a pretty good run where my writing was appreciated for its crisp, sarcastic, funny take on society...however, those short pages could never be expanded into a long book and my infant attempt at doing this last year fell flat on its face since i never summoned the courage and will power to finish it. I wish someday to sit back, translate some of the thoughts that go into my head to words on paper and then prove to myself that i can in fact summon the discipline when needed to translate visions of grandiose to actual reality. In a way, the blog is a way to posting my thoughts, but these are too scattered to provide a vision and perhaps a much more focussed form of writing is required.
1) Drive on US-101 and CA-1 to san diego:
ocean on the side, a continous drive for 8 hours and then reaching san diego is a dream. Then walking on the beach sand with naked foot, playing in the warm ocean waters and then living in a hotel with ocean side view, ah the magic! I don;t want to do anything except lie on the bed and see the ocean from my room, wake up at sun rise and see the morning sun slowly rise from the far side and then go back at the sunset and see the sun disappear into the sea...Nothing, but leisure time and nowhere to go except for the room. I would also love to go there under moon light, may be on a full moon day and then sit on the beach, have the cool breeze touch my face and then may be lie on the sand to feel the coolness? This is my first wish!
2) Join back acting:
3) Spend a week in a buddhist monastery
A dream since childhood, that i was never even close to achieving. Probably, the dream solidified when i read the autobiography of a yogi and i imagined myself sitting in lotus legged posture in a buddhist monastery. However, i was not even close to achieving five minutes of meditation, forget about a week of focussed meditation. But, i know that it will happen and the reason it took so long is for some inner transformation to happen with me and probably to widen my outlook.
4) Write a book:
Probably that should happen sometime since i do feel have some creative bent towards writing...my initial experiences of writing came when i took the writers class and i had a pretty good run where my writing was appreciated for its crisp, sarcastic, funny take on society...however, those short pages could never be expanded into a long book and my infant attempt at doing this last year fell flat on its face since i never summoned the courage and will power to finish it. I wish someday to sit back, translate some of the thoughts that go into my head to words on paper and then prove to myself that i can in fact summon the discipline when needed to translate visions of grandiose to actual reality. In a way, the blog is a way to posting my thoughts, but these are too scattered to provide a vision and perhaps a much more focussed form of writing is required.
