Online Bucket Lists
July 28, 2020 5:55 AM Subscribe
Is there somewhere online where I could read a bunch of other people's "bucket" lists or similar lists of fun or personally satisfying life goals?
As a younger person, I envisioned my future unfolding in a certain way, if everything "worked out". I thought I'd eventually buy a house, spend time having fun with family, have grand-kids nearby to spoil, get to retire at a reasonable age and travel regularly. Basically a combination of the nice lifestyles my middle-class, Midwestern dad, grandparents and in-laws aspired to and achieved. But for various reasons, these do not seem like viable goals any more.
Late last year I came to the realization that I no longer have much in the way of goals, nor do I have anything I'm really looking forward to. When I imagine the future all I can envision are endless rounds of slogging through an exhausting, stressful work week, followed by too-quick weekends where I'm some combination of bored and tired from trying to catch up on both rest and chores/errands.
I'm not depressed. I just don't know what to do with myself, mentally. I don't have a lot of time or energy to devote to any pursuit right now, so it's not a matter of having x number of hours a week I need to fill with activity. Just, when I find myself feeling bored on the weekend or bummed out about my job, it would be nice if there was something fun or inspiring I could at least dream about or plan for.
I just need some things to look forward to, but I don't even know what to want, if that makes any sense.
For that reason, I think it would be cool to be able to look at bucket lists that other people have writting, just to see what other people consider to be fun, inspiring or aspirational life-goals. I'm sure there are tons of things other people want to do and see that I have never thought of, or don't know about, that might spark some joy for me, so to speak. Is there anywhere online where people have shared something like this?
Any other thoughts on emerging from these kind of doldrums? As I said I'm not depressed so "therapy" answers are probably not going to be helpful. I really just need some fresh ideas for life inspiration.
As a younger person, I envisioned my future unfolding in a certain way, if everything "worked out". I thought I'd eventually buy a house, spend time having fun with family, have grand-kids nearby to spoil, get to retire at a reasonable age and travel regularly. Basically a combination of the nice lifestyles my middle-class, Midwestern dad, grandparents and in-laws aspired to and achieved. But for various reasons, these do not seem like viable goals any more.
Late last year I came to the realization that I no longer have much in the way of goals, nor do I have anything I'm really looking forward to. When I imagine the future all I can envision are endless rounds of slogging through an exhausting, stressful work week, followed by too-quick weekends where I'm some combination of bored and tired from trying to catch up on both rest and chores/errands.
I'm not depressed. I just don't know what to do with myself, mentally. I don't have a lot of time or energy to devote to any pursuit right now, so it's not a matter of having x number of hours a week I need to fill with activity. Just, when I find myself feeling bored on the weekend or bummed out about my job, it would be nice if there was something fun or inspiring I could at least dream about or plan for.
I just need some things to look forward to, but I don't even know what to want, if that makes any sense.
For that reason, I think it would be cool to be able to look at bucket lists that other people have writting, just to see what other people consider to be fun, inspiring or aspirational life-goals. I'm sure there are tons of things other people want to do and see that I have never thought of, or don't know about, that might spark some joy for me, so to speak. Is there anywhere online where people have shared something like this?
Any other thoughts on emerging from these kind of doldrums? As I said I'm not depressed so "therapy" answers are probably not going to be helpful. I really just need some fresh ideas for life inspiration.
If you do a search for 1001 things in 101 days you'll find some lists on blogs. This was a thing that people were doing years ago and I liked the limited time frame
posted by beyond_pink at 7:05 AM on July 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by beyond_pink at 7:05 AM on July 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
This may be a bit obvious, but did you look at the questions tagged bucketlist on MF? As you tagged your own question with that, I expect you did, but just in case. Looks as if there are some interesting ones.
Some of those tagged with goals might interest you too, like this one or this one.
I also think asking about people's life goals might make a good discussion for MeTaTalktails if you felt like suggesting it to the mods.
posted by paduasoy at 9:03 AM on July 28, 2020 [5 favorites]
Some of those tagged with goals might interest you too, like this one or this one.
I also think asking about people's life goals might make a good discussion for MeTaTalktails if you felt like suggesting it to the mods.
posted by paduasoy at 9:03 AM on July 28, 2020 [5 favorites]
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https://bucketlist.org/
https://listography.com/
(There used to be a fantastic community on 43Things.com where people listed their goals and commented on them... Sadly it's gone, but you may still find echoes of its existence in the interwebs.)
posted by gakiko at 6:13 AM on July 28, 2020 [4 favorites]