Bucket List Confusion

There's a new trend that's been sweeping Pinterest for the last few months.  Apparently, pinners are taking actions or activities they'd like added to their bucket list and making sentimental little posters of them, then pinning them for all their Pinterest friends to see. At first it seemed like a good idea to me.  Having goals is always positive.  But then I started to read them.  It's sort of easy to see who may be doing the majority of the pinning of these "very important" life goals.

Some are completely attainable, in that, they could literally complete the action at that very moment.  For instance, send a message in a bottle or take a photo a day for a year.  I understand wanting to introduce creativity to your life, but why make it a huge goal when you most likely have paper, pen and bottle at your fingertips and you most likely own a smart phone with a fantastic camera that's glued to your hip?  Hello!  You can start your bucket list right this very moment.  It literally took you longer to create the poster and pin it to Pinterest than it would have taken you to write the letter in a bottle.

Some go in the opposite direction.  Basically they're impossible for some reason or another, like being against the laws of physics ("Be in 2 places at once.") or not being a real place ("Visit Tomorrowland.") Bloggers note: I'm assuming they mean the super natural setting of the new George Clooney movie but I could be mistaken.

Then they're are others that are so ridiculous that you wonder about the person that would include these items as a life goal:
Jump in a swimming pool of jello.
Put a piece of gum on the gum wall in Seattle.
Do paint balloon darting. (I have NO idea what this even means!)
Go through a drive-thru on a horse (What?)

Of course, you also have ones that are just a bit sad.  Those are the people I worry about.  I worry that one of their biggest goals in life is really having a walk-on closet, or building a gingerbread house.  I'm just not thinking they're thinking big enough.  Or the girls (it just has to be teen girls) can't really think in 50 years they'll care about having a wardrobe they actually like (why'd you buy the clothes in the first place if you didn't like them?) or making a rainbow rose.

But then again, all this focus on big ideas and big trips, is sometimes good for the ego. Sometimes, you hear about these amazing trips that people have taken and you start to wonder if you'll ever get to go to these places and have awesome adventures.  But then, you start seeing fabulous places pop up on Bucket Lists - fabulous places you've actually been (Shop in NYC.  See a Broadway Show. Visit Abbey Road. See the monuments in DC), and you start to realize how lucky you really are.

Of course there's always room for a few extra awesome goals to strive for in the future:

~See Australia, Germany, Austria, Italy, and New Zealand.

~Have my happily ever after complete with the perfect shabby chic wedding to Prince Charming and 2. 5 kids (with the picket fence and the puppy too - not really tied to the picket fence, most flats in Notting Hill don't have picket fences...)

~Dinner at the French Laundry, Franklin BBQ, and Momofuku.

~Master French and re-master Spanish, and learn Sign Language.

~Create the perfect job that mixes helping people, papercrafting, travel and entertainment. Quit my old boring job and do that instead : )

~Completely step out of my comfort zone and do GISHWHES