The Bucket List

Starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. It's about two guys with only a few months to live who decided they should go fulfill their dreams.

I watched it for the nth time early this morning. Thanks to my dogs who woke me up when they stomped all over me trying to find space in our bed.

I love this movie. Maybe because Morgan Freeman's voice is so soothing. Maybe because they're great actors. Mostly because I love the concept of a bucket list. I want to make one of my own.

What should my bucket list contain? I can't even start. Some frivolous things? Something significant to the world even? Gosh, what could I possibly manage to do?

When I was younger, I always thought I would die in a horrible car accident. Dead on the spot. My young, beautiful body mangled beyond recognition. Well, I'm still alive and my body is no longer young nor beautiful so I began to think I'd die a slow, painful death. I'll die of some incurable disease that would give me immense pain as an orientation to the eternal damnation that I'm headed for. Ah, life.

Part of the movie is Morgan Freeman speaking of a survey on how 96% of the population would prefer not to know when they would die. I suppose most of us don't want to think about it let alone know when because it is too horrid to leave our children and loved ones behind. I think I'd rather be dead ahead of them because if they die ahead, what will I be here for?

So during our lives we blindly prepare for something that no one can prepare for. Death.